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Children read at ABC Learning Center Inc. in Minneapolis. A viral video showed a YouTuber knocking on doors of Somali-run daycares and claiming there were no children there, accusing the owners of defrauding the state. This daycare was featured in the video but did not allow the YouTuber in to the building.

Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance

In response to bogus allegations of fraud in Minnesota, strangers are filming them, knocking on their doors, demanding to be let in. It’s scaring parents and costing providers.

Feb 5, 2026 / Bryce Covert

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on February 3, 2026.

Trump Ratchets Up Talk of Taking Over Elections Trump Ratchets Up Talk of Taking Over Elections

This is one of many signs that Trump knows his party is in big trouble in the coming midterm elections.

Feb 4, 2026 / Joan Walsh

Jeff Bezos attends the Christian Dior Haute Couture Week Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 26, 2026

Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime

It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite.

Feb 4, 2026 / Chris Lehmann

Freedoms Under Threat

Freedoms Under Threat Freedoms Under Threat

An authoritarian is breaking the promise of our democracy.

Feb 4, 2026 / OppArt / Peter O. Zierlein

Is it Too Late to Save Hollywood?

Is it Too Late to Save Hollywood? Is it Too Late to Save Hollywood?

A conversation with A.S. Hamrah about the dispiriting state of the movie business in the post-Covid era.

Feb 4, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Kyle Paoletta

Pro-Palestinian protesters at the encampment on University of Michigan’s campus.

Surveilled on Your Own Campus Surveilled on Your Own Campus

Universities across the country have used extraordinary measures to target student activists following more than two years of pro-Palestinian protests.

Feb 4, 2026 / StudentNation / Hannah Epstein

US Capitol Police issue arrest warnings with a bullhorn as clergy with Faith in Action conduct civil disobedience in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on January 29.

The Fight to Stop ICE—in Congress, and at the Super Bowl The Fight to Stop ICE—in Congress, and at the Super Bowl

John Nichols comments on Democrats’ work in Congress to limit ICE, and Dave Zirin explains how Bad Bunny will make the Super Bowl halftime show a center of resistance.

Feb 4, 2026 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

Elon Musk peddles his vision of cosmic colonization at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Why Elon Musk’s Latest Mega Merger Is Little More than Vaporware Why Elon Musk’s Latest Mega Merger Is Little More than Vaporware

The tech mogul and would-be space pioneer is mashing up his properties once more in a deal that's unlikely to achieve escape velocity .

Feb 4, 2026 / Jacob Silverman

Taking to the Streets

Taking to the Streets Taking to the Streets

Street demonstration, New York City, January 11, 2026.

Feb 3, 2026 / OppArt / Mary Richman

Relatives and colleagues bid farewell to Palestinian journalists Abdel Raouf Shaath, Mohammed Qashta, and Anas Ghoneim, who were killed in an Israeli air strike.

“We Have Covered Events No Human Can Bear” “We Have Covered Events No Human Can Bear”

Journalists in Gaza have bartered their lives to tell a truth that much of the world still doesn’t want to hear.

Feb 3, 2026 / Ola Al Asi

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