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The latest on Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ, briefly explained
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is going after his enemies. What’s happening? It’s a long list from this week alone: As disparate as those headlines […]
Welcome to the January issue of The Highlight
America’s political binary — left and right, Democrat and Republican — can feel inescapable. But historically, it’s a relatively new development, and academically, some political scientists argue it’s nonsense: What we think of as immutable political realities are instead artificial alliances of political convenience. In this month’s Highlight cover story, senior correspondent Eric Levitz breaks […]
The Minnesotans trying to stop ICE
When Renee Good was shot by an ICE officer last week in Minnesota, it brought attention to the robust effort to combat US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Twin Cities. Residents of Minneapolis and the surrounding areas are joining decentralized networks of activists who are committed to alerting their neighbors to ICE presence on […]
NASA’s first medical evacuation is here. It won’t be the last.
The first medical evacuation in the history of the International Space Station (ISS) is happening today. Crew-11 will return to Earth ahead of schedule because of an unspecified medical issue. Included in the group are NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. NASA didn’t specify what […]
The Trump administration can’t stop winking at white nationalists
Progressives have long argued that Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is a fundamentally fascistic enterprise. In their telling, the president’s goal is not merely to enforce America’s borders but to purify its blood — and unleash state violence against anyone who resists his campaign of ethnic cleansing. Of course, there’s nothing new about the left deriding […]