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The Post-Trump Challenge Isn’t Restoration. It’s Reinvention.

Max Burns — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:58:56 +0000

Few presidents ever make enough impact to lend their name to an era. Capturing an era takes more than just an ideological shift in American politics and government. It requires a singular personality so strong that society bends and warps around its gravity. Eras reshape the collective DNA of a nation. The society that emerges […]

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The Four Ideas That Explain America’s Democratic Crisis

Brynn Tannehill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:49:16 +0000

Now that I’m an American living in Canada, something I hear all the time is some variation of, “What the hell is going on in the United States?” spoken with a tone of mixed bemusement and horror. The people I work with come from all over the world, and it’s the same message from everyone. The very short answer is “fascism”. However, people outside the U.S. can’t square the circle when it comes to…

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The Case for Rebuilding America’s Immigration System

Felipe De La Hoz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:44:43 +0000

There’s hardly been a more visible manifestation of the Trump administration’s authoritarian push than the expanding power and detention footprint of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Whether it’s ICE itself or the many other federal agents delegated to it, federal immigration agents have sparked public anger by occupying politically oppositional cities, arresting organizers, and administration […]

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What It Would Actually Take to Fix Women’s Health Care in America

Lauren Rankin — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:19:57 +0000

Bailey Staff was an active child, a competitive dancer, first degree black belt, and horserider. “I did everything under the sun,” she said—until she was 15 years old. She began to have constant pain in her right knee, and no matter what she did, it wouldn’t go away. She went to her primary care doctor, […]

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Can Treating Journalism Like Public Infrastructure Fix Our Broken Media?

Parker Molloy — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:55:23 +0000

In September 2025, when ICE agents began rolling through Chicago neighborhoods as part of an operation the Department of Homeland Security called Operation Midway Blitz, the city’s residents needed someone to tell them what was happening. Not federal officials, who would refuse to disclose who was being arrested or why. Not the White House, whose […]

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The Blueprint for a More Affordable America Already Exists

Rainesford Stauffer — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:56:03 +0000

For Theresa, a 44-year-old single mom in New Jersey, everything from the price of groceries to energy bills has risen significantly over the past six months. She was saving up to purchase a used car, which she needs because her area isn’t easily commutable via public transit. But now, she sees gas prices skyrocketing, and […]

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‘Repairing America’ What Would It Take to Actually Fix This Country?

DAME — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:12:25 +0000

The promise of the American dream, once packaged neatly in a white picket fence, feels increasingly out of reach for most people today. Families are profiled, detained, and separated. Children grow up practicing for school shootings. A felon sits in the Oval Office, governing with the sensibility of a reality show. Constitutional rights many assumed […]

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The K-Shaped Economy Is Reshaping American Cities

Max Burns — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:04:18 +0000

Some of the people who packed the airplane hangar in Freeland, Michigan in early May 2024 had been standing for hours by the time then-candidate Donald Trump finally made his appearance. Trump was decked out in his standard blue suit, white shirt, red tie, and MAGA hat; a kind of living flag with a spray-on […]

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Social Media Built a Market for Sexual Violence

Nicole Froio — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:47:44 +0000

A CNN investigation that revealed the intricacies of an online “rape academy” shocked the world last month. The report shone a light on the porn website Motherless, where 20,000+ videos under the “sleep” category, which features men raping their sleeping wives and girlfriends, had hundreds of thousands of views. In the comments of one of […]

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What Trump’s Trade War Is Doing to America’s Farmers

Max Burns — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:56:58 +0000

When then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made his closing pitch to voters in late October 2024, he singled out the millions of Americans living in rural communities for special attention. Backed by a record amount of agriculture industry spending, Trump painted a bleak picture of farmers under assault by Democratic regulations and immigration policies. Former President […]

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