How a French City Kept Its Soccer Team Working Class How a French City Kept Its Soccer Team Working Class

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Puerto Rico’s Mothers Against War Turn to Revolutionary Love Puerto Rico’s Mothers Against War Turn to Revolutionary Love

Formed to oppose the Iraq War, Madres Contra La Guerra have now spent decades trying to end Puerto Rico’s role at the center of the US war machine in Latin America.

Andrea Contreras

A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets

Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses a rally against the Republican spending bill in May.

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The Massachusetts senator argues that, in order to prevail in the midterms, the party needs to recover its populist roots—and fighting spirit.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flank Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office, on August 25, 2025.

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And yet, that’s what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do.

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Books & the Arts

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The new show from the creators of The Office reminds us that their comedic style does now work in every “workplace in the world.”

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Seymour Hersh during his New York Times days.

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World

Students in Khartoum hold up the Sudan flag during a protest on November 3, 2025, against atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher .

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The ongoing genocide has been largely overlooked by the international community.

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Donald Trump is sowing division in the European Union, even as he calls on it to spend more on defense.

David Broder

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A dramatic shift to the extreme right threatens the future—and past—for human rights and accountability.

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A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. LAPD chief Daryl Gates defended the department’s racist police regime until he was forced out in the wake of King’s beating.

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How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era.

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Meet the military women who are fighting to win purple districts for the Democrats and put the defense secretary on notice.

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Young people are facing a mental health crisis. This group of Cincinnati teens thinks they know how to solve it.

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