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Demonstrators hold signs during a rally for federal workers at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.

The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE

Trump’s federal workforce cuts dismantled a job pipeline for Washington, DC’s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up that community.

Oct 7, 2026 / Lottie Joiner

The Karl-Marx-Hof public housing project in Vienna, Austria.

Red Vienna Is Still Alive Red Vienna Is Still Alive

The Austrian capital chose not to privatize the commons, and it shows.

Oct 7, 2026 / Kate Wagner

A crowd gathered around a 12-foot cardboard version of Claes Oldenburg’s lipstick sculpture to protest their university and government.

Yale’s Protest Tradition Is Back Yale’s Protest Tradition Is Back

For the first time in more than 50 years, Yale students gathered around an iconic sculpture to protest their university and their government.

Oct 7, 2026 / StudentNation / Zachary Clifton

A soldier stands at the outer NATO border with Russia on July 16, 2026, in Vaalimaa, Finland.

Are Europe and Russia Slow-Walking to World War III? Are Europe and Russia Slow-Walking to World War III?

Dangerous rhetoric has been escalating on both sides for some time now.

Oct 7, 2026 / Stephen Crowley

A supporter holds a campaign brochure supporting Democratic US Senate candidate Angie Nixon in Miami, Florida, on August 15, 2026. The brochure reads, in Spanish, “Change can’t wait.”

Florida Isn’t Red. Democrats Just Stopped Showing Up. Florida Isn’t Red. Democrats Just Stopped Showing Up.

With more than 900,000 Puerto Rican voters, Florida can be won in 2026 and put in play for 2028. Give Angie Nixon the chance she deserves.

Oct 7, 2026 / Camille Rivera

Demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court against oil corporations involved in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County.

This Lawsuit Could Make Big Oil Pay for the Harm It’s Caused This Lawsuit Could Make Big Oil Pay for the Harm It’s Caused

The question is whether the Supreme Court will let it.

Oct 6, 2026 / Elie Mystal

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Oct 6, 2026 / OppArt / Eric Baker

Ed Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks outside the US Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports on January 13, 2026.

We Need More Pro-Trans Politicians. This Group Thinks It Knows How to Get Them. We Need More Pro-Trans Politicians. This Group Thinks It Knows How to Get Them.

Talking to Tyler Hack, who leads the nation’s only political action group dedicated solely to getting trans rights supporters elected.

Oct 6, 2026 / Elsie Carson-Holt

Former House speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois attending the unveiling of his portrait at the Capitol on July 28, 2009, in Washington, DC.

The Picture of Dennis Hastert The Picture of Dennis Hastert

The disgraced former congressman was a better representative of the GOP than the party would like to admit.

Oct 6, 2026 / Chris Lehmann

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, delivering her first state of the union speech last year.

How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong

American analysts have long viewed inequality as a byproduct of technological causes. But Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena Party has boosted workers’ income without any technological tr...

Oct 6, 2026 / Jonathan Schlefer

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