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The most important of all indictments against the former president: openly and long-time racist businessman and politician being brought up on federal charges by a very powerful civil rights enforcement tool created during the Reconstruction years.

Changing the world — because it needs it

The Shaky Foundations of U.S. School Funding

"The nuclear-armed states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us."

Two and half years in the making, special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment presents a devastating case laced with telling detail

Nearly 14,000 laws and regulations restrict people who have been convicted or even just arrested from getting professional licenses

Summer of our discontent

The Shaky Foundations of U.S. School Funding

The civil rights icon speaks with TNR about the 2024 race, his legacy, and how he’s not actually retiring.

"Holding Trump accountable for his crimes pulls our democracy back from the precipice and prevents his criminal attempt to overturn an election from being forgotten or normalized," said one watchdog leader.