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President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses in Scotland on July 28, 2025.

Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive.

Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions.

Jul 29, 2025 / Joan Walsh

100 Monkeys

100 Monkeys 100 Monkeys

Check out all installments in the OppArt series.

Jul 29, 2025 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Palestinians carrying pans, gather to receive hot meals, distributed by a charity organization

A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza

It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.

Jul 29, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A person places their hand on a window inside a jail as demonstrators make noise outside during an anti-police protest on January 24, 2021 in Tacoma, Washington.

A Trip Through Hell A Trip Through Hell

In a Washington county jail, solitary confinement is the worst, most degrading, foulest experience you could ever imagine.

Jul 29, 2025 / Christopher Blackwell

People wade in the waters of the Great Salt Lake at Antelope Island in August 2021.

The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb

Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard.

Jul 29, 2025 / StudentNation / Adelaide Parker

An episode of “Shark Tank,” 2015.

Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”?  Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? 

Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction.

Jul 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Ben Sandman

Ronald Reagan signing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.

What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan

Rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy—legalizing them.

Jul 28, 2025 / Brad Swanson

Zohran Mamdani smiles in front of a microphone with his hand on his chest.

Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive

The doom-obsessed Democratic Party remains as unpopular as ever—but there is another path.

Jul 28, 2025 / Jeet Heer

2-year-old Palestinian Yezen Abu Ful, whose health has deteriorated due to lack of access to food and nutritional supplements, is seen with his mother in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza Strip on July 24, 2025.

These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers.

“There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.

Jul 28, 2025 / A. Khalil

The Wrong Amazon Is Burning

The Wrong Amazon Is Burning The Wrong Amazon Is Burning

The wrong ice is melting.

Jul 28, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous

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