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Mahmoud Khalil Is Suing the White House and Heritage Foundation

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who spent months in ICE detention, has filed a federal lawsuit against what he alleges is a “public-private conspiracy” to deport him, taking aim at both the Trump administration—one of the suit’s targets—and a constellation of right-wing figures and organizations that relentlessly targeted him over his involvement in

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Attack Ad Calls Climate Activist an Oil Investor Because of His 401(k)

William Lawrence, the 36-year-old Sunrise Movement co-founder running a progressive congressional campaign in Michigan, has positioned himself as an enemy of big corporations. But a new attack ad aired this week suggests the opposite: Lawrence, the Crush MAGA PAC advertisement claims, has “invested thousands in Wall Street, big oil, and data centers.” Lawren

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A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better

When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that would send him ten free CDs in the mail. “I didn’t know it then, but I had just signed up for my first subscription,” Levine said. A few months and a […]

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Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?

Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after a rape allegation against him was made public in a Politico report, and prominent Democrats—many of whom had looked the other way at Platner’s Nazi tattoo and prior abuse allegations—one by one dropped their en

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ICE Keeps Using the Same Justification for Killing Drivers

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and three-decade Houston resident. It was the second ICE-involved shooting this week alone; since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, federal immigration agents have shot and killed at least 10 people. Now, as hundreds mar

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