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ICE Has Cut Its Detainees Off From Medical Care
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has stopped paying for immigrant detainees to receive health care—and isn’t planning on paying for months, independent journalist Judd Legum reported Tuesday. ICE Health Service...
Transcript: Why Trump Is Losing Ground Even in This Deep-Red State
Bacon: Yes. OK.Behn: Yes. And some of these—a lot of the legislation—is already federally enacted. Yeah. But who knows how it’s going to materialize in the Tennessee legislature. And...
Transcript: Angry Trump’s Threats Go Haywire as Damning ICE Video Hits
Sargent: Just to close this out, I think the way I would put that is that they think the supercharging of all these violent tensions and malignancies among Americans,...
The Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here
We are under no professional obligation to treat with even-handedness the would-be architects of our demise. I suspect that a lot of people were not aware that Project 2025,...
How AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool
A new wave of tools, based on generative AI, aims to go beyond sorting papers and to automate various stages of the reviewing process. Some products, such as Elicit...
Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right
Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be categorized, judged, explained, and perhaps...
The Residents of Minneapolis Are Fighting for All of Us
For as long as Donald Trump has deployed his ICE brownshirts in the “Democrat” cities he so despises, Americans have been out in the streets, confronting his masked goons...
Big Oil’s Complicated Calculus for Investing in Venezuela
“I’ll probably be inclined to keep Exxon out,” President Trump told reporters on Sunday. “I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute.”Trump, who has promised that U.S. oil...
Stephen Miller Has a Truly Rancid Star Trek Opinion
“We’re near the Badlands, Captain,” one character, a half-Klingon, half-Jem’Hadar woman, remarks to the academy’s chancellor, played by Holly Hunter. “Subspace instability may be creeping in, and we’re the...
Trump’s Newest Voters Are Abandoning Ship
What a difference a year makes. Today, that widely accepted consensus about the 2024 election seems absurd. Trump hadn’t reshaped the electorate at all—he had simply won another toss-up...
Virginia Democrats Pass Major Amendment Amid GOP Gerrymandering Wars
Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature just got one step closer to victory in the battle against Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme.The commonwealth’s Senate passed an amendment Friday that would allow the state...
Judge Accuses Trump, Rubio, and Noem of “Unconstitutional Conspiracy”
A Reagan-appointed federal judge says the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian activists is an “unconstitutional conspiracy.”U.S. District Judge William Young, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985,...