Yearly Archives: 2026
Police kill 1-year-old in Mississippi, then tear gas protesters demanding answers
The fatal shooting of Kohen Wiley after an alleged shoplifting call has ignited protests in Senatobia, where residents say years of police escalation and mistrust reached a breaking point.
Trump DOJ moves to crush Evanston’s landmark Black reparations program
The Justice Department is backing a right-wing lawsuit against the nation’s first operating reparations program, raising the stakes for cities trying to repair decades of anti-Black housing discrimination.
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing—and winning—in both blue and red parts of the country.
Ritual, power, and the weekend arena
The roar of a crowd that believes its collective voice matters stands in quiet contrast to spectacles that ask only for attention, passivity, and allegiance.
ICE weakens detention rules as private prison firms stand to gain
New standards allow broader AI use, lock in $1-a-day labor limits, and give detention operators more flexibility as ICE expands under Trump’s mass enforcement agenda.
Donald Trump, the end times president or ETP
Making War on Planet Earth, the Rest of Us, and Even Himself.
Education Department changes are leaving millions of vulnerable students at risk
Moving special education services and civil rights enforcement to other federal agencies has left families wondering what's next.
Japan and South Korea: An alliance of middle powers?
Hedging their bets against Donald Trump is pushing the two countries together.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advances ‘America the Beautiful Act’ to fund parks...
The bill will fund infrastructure repairs including crumbling park roads, bridges, failing water and wastewater systems, visitor centers, and employee housing.
More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changes Federal...
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.