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Switching gears

If Thomas Friedman’s fairytale world of light-versus-darkness were to evaporate, less noble motives for U.S. and Israeli actions might be revealed.

SCOTUS stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the US when the president breaks the law.

In a public letter, employees of the Environmental Protection Agency accused the administration of engaging in unlawful partisan activity and endangering public health.

Inspiration and results, together again.

A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch.

Haiti’s current form of “checkpoint governance” represents a structural transformation in how politics works in the country. What defines Haiti now is an impasse—a condition of blockage and immobility that traps millions in place.

Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project has been planting markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence. On 31 May, a historical marker was placed outside the former Wayland jail where Fred Shannon was killed in 1924.

Who You Gonna Call? (1965), THIS Is Why Haiti Is So Impoverished (1825), ‘Fight—Don't Starve!’ (1930), One Pipeline Too Many (2020), Happy Birthday to The Nation (1865), Mercury Poisoning at Its Worst (1975), Cuba Stands Up to Uncle Sam (1960)

Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’