Akela Lacy, Jessica Washington, and Matt Sledge break down the battle over the Epstein files, looming government shutdown, and National Guard occupation.
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“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.
Veteran strategist Nina Smith warns the Democratic Party is failing at the basics.
Journalist Kylie Cheung on why post-Dobbs restrictions “aren’t unintended consequences.”
The International Rescue Committee’s Bob Kitchen unpacks how Israel’s war and aid restrictions, not food shortage, are driving Gaza’s hunger crisis.
Rick Loessberg and Akela Lacy trace the trajectory of America’s unfinished reckoning with policing, from the 1967 Kerner Report to the George Floyd protests to Trump 2.0.