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Truck billboards drive in front of the Palace Hotel calling out Fox News' election denial

Fox News May Finally Pay the Price for Its Lies Fox News May Finally Pay the Price for Its Lies

The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit has placed the network in real legal jeopardy, and even its friends might not bail it out this time.

Mar 9, 2023 / Elie Mystal

Women imprisoned at Perryville State Prison

Arizona Prisoners Find Hope in Their Fight Against Forced Inductions Arizona Prisoners Find Hope in Their Fight Against Forced Inductions

A bill seeking to end the practice has languished without a hearing. Bill sponsor Athena Salman is not giving up, and neither are pregnant people in custody.

Mar 8, 2023 / Victoria Law

Protester holding sign with Tom Petty lyrics supporting abortion access

Florida Judges Have the Power to Force Young People to Give Birth Florida Judges Have the Power to Force Young People to Give Birth

Everything from their grades to their demeanor in the courtroom is fair game for a judge’s veto power.

Mar 8, 2023 / Anna Eskamani

Illustration by Victor Juhasz.

When Force-Feeding Is Torture When Force-Feeding Is Torture

After years of litigation, The Nation and Type Investigations have acquired footage of a force-feeding at a federal prison. It shows treatment that may amount to torture.

Mar 8, 2023 / Feature / Aviva Stahl

The Country Is Paying for Merrick Garland’s Failure to Prosecute Trump

The Country Is Paying for Merrick Garland’s Failure to Prosecute Trump The Country Is Paying for Merrick Garland’s Failure to Prosecute Trump

The special counsel may indict Trump for something, but it’s already too late to stop him from running for president again.

Mar 7, 2023 / Elie Mystal

J. Edgar Hoover tests a gun.

The Cult of J. Edgar Hoover The Cult of J. Edgar Hoover

A zealot through and through, he ran the FBI like a religious sect.

Mar 7, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild

Nikki Haley, who has announced her candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, speaking a CPAC on March 3, 2023, in National Harbor, Md.

Did Something Happen on January 6, 2021? Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About It. Did Something Happen on January 6, 2021? Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About It.

The early GOP 2024 presidential candidates are mum about the insurrection and who was behind it.

Mar 6, 2023 / Joan Walsh

Trump speaks at a podium

Reports of Trump’s Demise Are Premature, and His Threat of “Retribution” Is Serious Reports of Trump’s Demise Are Premature, and His Threat of “Retribution” Is Serious

At CPAC, the former president outlines his plan to regain the GOP nomination—and the White House.

Mar 6, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on April 23, 2019. Leo is an Executive Vice President with the Federalist Society and a confidant of President Trump.

Fix the Courts by Investigating Federalist Society Sleaze Fix the Courts by Investigating Federalist Society Sleaze

The powerful right-wing organization faces serious conflict-of-interest allegations.

Mar 3, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Protesters rally in support of the Biden administration's student debt relief plan

Student Debtors Need the Supreme Court to Not Be Wildly Unprincipled for a Change Student Debtors Need the Supreme Court to Not Be Wildly Unprincipled for a Change

For Biden’s student debt plan to survive, the court’s conservatives have to do something they hate doing: apply their rules consistently.

Mar 2, 2023 / Cristian Farias

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