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What Black Youth Need to Feel Safe

What Black Youth Need to Feel Safe What Black Youth Need to Feel Safe

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

Jan 15, 2026 / Feature / Dani McClain

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a policy announcement event at the US Department of Health and Human Services on January 8, 2026.

Trump’s Death Eaters Are Coming for Our Kids Trump’s Death Eaters Are Coming for Our Kids

After taking countless lives around the world, RFK Jr. and his ghoulish compatriots want American children to suffer too.

Jan 15, 2026 / Gregg Gonsalves

The North Chennai Power Station.

The US Needs India to Buy Coal. Who Pays the Cost? The US Needs India to Buy Coal. Who Pays the Cost?

As the country doubles down on coal exports, local communities—like those in Baltimore and Ennore—will bear the environmental burden.

Jan 15, 2026 / StudentNation / Alex Norbrook

Workers with SEIU Local 26 and UNITE HERE Local 17 marched and rallied at the Minneapolis–St. Paul airport alongside community members on December 3, 2026. They were for an end to deportation flights conducted by private companies such as Signature Aviation.

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Chills Organizing and Erodes Conditions for All Workers How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Chills Organizing and Erodes Conditions for All Workers

When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor rights.

Jan 15, 2026 / Sarah Lazare

Demonstrators during a protest in Minneapolis on January 8, 2026. An ICE officer fatally shot a woman during a confrontation in Minneapolis, sparking an uproar over the presence of ICE agents in the city

The Defiance Is Steadily Building, in Increasingly Unlikely Places The Defiance Is Steadily Building, in Increasingly Unlikely Places

It’s the protesters on the streets in Minneapolis fighting ICE, DOJ lawyers who’ve resigned over the investigation into Renee and Becca Good—and many more opposing Trump’s abuses....

Jan 14, 2026 / Joan Walsh

LGBTQ+ rights advocates rally outside the US Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports.

The Supreme Court Just Held an Anti-Trans Hatefest The Supreme Court Just Held an Anti-Trans Hatefest

The court’s hearing on state bans on trans athletes in women’s sports was not a serious legal exercise. It was bigotry masquerading as law.

Jan 14, 2026 / Elie Mystal

Seymour Hersh during his New York Times days.

The Endless Scoops of Seymour Hersh The Endless Scoops of Seymour Hersh

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Cover-Up explores the life and times of one of America’s greatest investigative reporters.

Jan 14, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Adam Hochschild

How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot

How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot

The tech oligarch sets a new low—for now—in the degeneration of online discourse.

Jan 14, 2026 / Jacob Silverman

Parents, teachers, childcare workers, and community members hold up handmade signs defending local childcare programs during a press conference at a daycare center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Real Welfare Fraud Scandal The Real Welfare Fraud Scandal

If the Trump administration were truly concerned with fraud in social services spending, it wouldn’t start with childcare, and it wouldn’t start with Minnesota.

Jan 14, 2026 / Bryce Covert

ICE = KKK

ICE = KKK ICE = KKK

On January 7, an ICE agent shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis—state violence rooted in racism, fear, and impunity, echoing America’s darkest histories.

Jan 13, 2026 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

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