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How ordinary Americans became numb to authoritarianism—step by chilling step

Education secretary said ‘if you’re giving facts on both sides’ of Tulsa race massacre, it wouldn’t be DEI'.

A time for rude awakenings and standing fast

It grew out of a Google Doc, and now has millions of US members – what’s the secret of Indivisible’s success?

Climate displacement and border enforcement--two dynamics trending distinctly upward--are on a collision course

A dozen unarmed activists are standing up against one of the world's most powerful militaries.

"The House bill addresses none of the nation's key economic challenges usefully and exacerbates many of them."

Trump's clemency for Hoover and other drug offenders follows a pattern that began during his first term in the White House. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of at least 13 people convicted of federal drug crimes between 2017 and 2021.

George Floyd's life was stolen from him, and his murder matters because of that. But the trajectory that took him from one formerly vibrant Black community to another then to an untimely death belongs to a larger story of systemic racial injustice.

A coalition including leading figures on the right filed a fiery brief with the court that rebuffed most Trump tariffs. The tariffs are "taxation by proclamation" and do violence to the Constitution, the brief argues. One judge cited it eight times.