No… Yuck!
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Why Trump Is Trying to Steal Jesse Jackson’s Glory
Politics / February 20, 2026 The president wants you to know he had a Black friend, sort of. Ad Policy Donald Trump and Jesse Jackson on June 27, 1988. (Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) Donald Trump enjoys speaking ill of the dead. He is instinctively boorish and hates to be tied
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Mamdani Launches His First Salvos in New York’s Fiscal Battle
Politics / The Mamdani Beat / February 19, 2026 The mayor, the governor, and the members of the city’s big-ticket tax base are all squaring off over prospective tax increases and service cuts. Ad Policy Mayor Zohran Mamdani presents his preliminary city budget at a City Hall meeting. (Michael Brochstein / Sipa USA via AP)
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The Job of Being Jesse Jackson
Activism / February 19, 2026 Jackson’s lessons for today’s Democrats. Ad Policy Reverend Jesse Jackson addresses supporters in the lead-up to the 1988 Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucuses, on February 1, 1988. (Jean-Louis Atlan / Sygma via Getty Images) In 2000, I got to spend some intense hours with Jesse Jackson, when he and his son
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The Urgency of Marrying Affordability to Anti-Corporate Populism
February 19, 2026 For all the good news, Democrats are at a dangerous moment politically. Ad Policy (Jerome Gilles / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The inspiring victory won in the streets of Minneapolis gives Democrats an opening for a realignment of American politics, but only if we build a bridge to working-class voters conflicted on
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What’s Next for US Healthcare? Ask Oklahoma.
Politics / StudentNation / February 18, 2026 As Trump continues to dismantle federal agencies, this state shows what happens when a one-party-controlled government makes sweeping public health changes with little resistance. Ad Policy A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at an Oklahoma County Health Department Vaccine Clinic. (Nick Oxford / Getty) This story was
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Orange Monarch
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Thomas Albus Met With Trump Lawyers Before Georgia Election Center Raid — ProPublica
The Missouri prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, has taken part in meetings since last fall with lawyers tasked by President Donald Trump to reinvestigate his loss to Joe Biden. Thomas Albus, whom Trump appointed last year as U.S. attorney for Missouri’s Eastern District, has had multiple meetings set
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CBS Surrenders to Trump | The Nation
Society / February 17, 2026 The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment. Ad Policy The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (Scott Kowalchyk / CBS via Getty Images) Just a week after the centibillionaire owner of The Washington Post
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention — ProPublica
This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.