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Trump made us a soundtrack to world peace
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (613+ words) President Donald Trump speaks during a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington.Mark Schiefelbein/AP In the run-up to the inaugural Board of Peace meeting, which began about 40 minutes late on Thursday at…...
Tennessee said yes to ICE—and turned into a deportation state
5+ hour, 29+ min ago (1484+ words) Melissa del Bosque46 seconds ago The agents soon dragged Campos from his vehicle, handcuffed him, and forced him into the back of an unmarked black SUV. He remained silent, with an expression of bewilderment and terror, as the growing crowd called…...
Everybody Hates Cory – Mother Jones
7+ hour, 19+ min ago (1798+ words) Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Noah Lanard10 minutes ago The congressman has publicly pushed back on some of these scandals. The domestic violence allegation was later retracted, and Mills has defended his military record while also saying…...
Tired of dystopian sci-fi? You might like Solarpunk.
10+ hour, 1+ min ago (748+ words) I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing climate: droughts causing billions in Dust Bowl'style crop damage, Florida's worst-ever coral bleaching, a record melt in…...
How extremists reconquered Idaho in the age of Trump—and how some locals are fighting back
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1834+ words) Extremism in the Coeur d'Alene area: an Aryan Nations rally (2000); a man outside a compound near Priest River (2012); Security agents remove Teresa Borrenpohl from a GOP town hall (2025).Mother Jones illustration; Hailey Hill/Coeur D'Alene Press/AP By nightfall, people…...
The man who taught nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr.
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (252+ words) Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an award-winning episode looking at civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. The episode was called "Who Is This Man?" because while Rustin was not well…...
They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (996+ words) Kate Brown36 minutes ago This article is adapted from Kate Brown's new book,Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, which will be published February 17, 2026, Copyright W. W. Norton & Company. In 2013, Nicole and Dan Virgil lived in a…...
These utilities may be wildly overestimating the AI boom—at public expense
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (545+ words) A Meta data center outside Atlanta.Mike Stewart/AP As more and more data centers crop up throughout Georgia and the Southeast, a recent study finds they may need less energy than the industry and utilities have been predicting. That…...
Their courses were no longer relevant, so these economics students went to work
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (1161+ words) Labour MP Yuan Yang, one of the founders of Rethinking Economics. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/PA Images/AP As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University'walked out of their…...
As aggressive ICE raids rise, we look at the people being targeted and the families they’re leaving behind
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (192+ words) Federal agents attempt to detain a family member after they exit immigration court in New York City.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Cecelia Lizotte owns Suya Joint, a celebrated Nigerian restaurant in Boston. She's a rising star in the city who was…...