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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

Sir William Gell’s “The Removal of the Sculptures from the Pediments of the Parthenon by Lord Elgin,” 1801.

Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles Why We’re Still Fighting Over Elgin’s Marbles

In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired.

Feb 5, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Nicolas Liney

Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul at a rally in Queens on October 26, 2025.

Zohran Mamdani: Why I’m Endorsing Kathy Hochul Zohran Mamdani: Why I’m Endorsing Kathy Hochul

Exclusive: New York City’s mayor explains why he’s backing New York’s governor in the 2026 election.

Feb 5, 2026 / Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani Touts a Stunning View of the City, but Struggles to Clear the Sidewalks

Mamdani Touts a Stunning View of the City, but Struggles to Clear the Sidewalks Mamdani Touts a Stunning View of the City, but Struggles to Clear the Sidewalks

The New York mayor is opening the roof of the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to the public, but has plenty of work ahead to make the city below more affordable and accessible...

Feb 5, 2026 / D.D. Guttenplan

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

The State Theatre in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, 2021 / A.S. Hamrah

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 / Q&A / Kyle Paoletta

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

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

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