“He went in search of a better life for his family. His brother refused to let him go alone. Only one survived the journey.”
Seyward Darby
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Surrealism Against Fascism
“A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?”
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A Theology of Smuggling
“In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.”
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‘Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.’
“My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.”
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Killer Train
“Brightline death toll surpasses 180, but safeguards are still lacking.”
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the ‘New York Times’ About Zohran Mamdani
“The former chair of the Africana Studies department at Bowdoin College would prefer not to.”
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Waymo Money, Waymo Problems
“Robots take to the roads—and clog the sidewalks.”
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The Baby Whisperer
“Marian Fraser once ran the go-to day care for Waco’s elite. But the community turned against her after she was arrested for the death of a child in her charge. The evidence against her was circumstantial, yet many came to believe there had long been a dark secret to her success.”
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The Shadow President
“From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like ‘he is the commander in chief.’”