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President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 29, 2024. Biden on Sunday issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who is facing sentencing for two criminal cases related to tax evasion and the purchase of a firearm.

Hunter Biden and the Future of Clemency Hunter Biden and the Future of Clemency

Biden knows there is a better way to use it—other people’s children also deserve mercy.

Dec 4, 2024 / Rachel E. Barkow and Mark Osler

Apartheid

Apartheid Apartheid

And worse.

Dec 3, 2024 / OppArt / André Carrilho

Kash Patel at the Team Trump Bus Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 10, 2024.

Kash Patel Is Trump’s Scariest Cabinet Appointment Yet Kash Patel Is Trump’s Scariest Cabinet Appointment Yet

The president-elect wants to put a “deep state” conspiracy theorist in charge of the actual deep state.

Dec 3, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

Takes one to know one: Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, former underboss of the Gambino crime family, who confessed to 19 murders when he testified against his boss, John Gotti, is a fan of President-elect Trump.

Donald Trump’s Government of Gangsters Donald Trump’s Government of Gangsters

Who is being naïve now?

Dec 2, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Anthropocene Matrix

Anthropocene Matrix Anthropocene Matrix

Bro-bots.

Dec 2, 2024 / Steve Brodner

The Clock Is Ticking

The Clock Is Ticking The Clock Is Ticking

For a cruel new America.

Dec 2, 2024 / OppArt / Judy Polstra

Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail

Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail Illinois Has Put an End to the Injustice of Cash Bail

Amid a national backlash against criminal justice reform, Illinois has achieved something extraordinary. It’s working better than anyone expected.

Dec 2, 2024 / Feature / Bryce Covert

Healing USA

Healing USA Healing USA

Honoring BIPOC should be as American as Thanksgiving.

Nov 29, 2024 / OppArt / Airco Caravan

A split screen image of Glenna Halverson-Boyd and Dr. Curtis Boyd and the cover of their new book,

“We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care “We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care

In their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe.

Nov 29, 2024 / Regina Mahone

Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi speaks before Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum, November 2, 2024, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The Silver Lining of the Pam Bondi Nomination The Silver Lining of the Pam Bondi Nomination

While Bondi is a Trump loyalist who will do real damage, she won’t be as dangerous as one of the Federalist Society ideologues who might have gotten the post.

Nov 26, 2024 / Elie Mystal

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