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February 9, 2026
Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have st...
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February 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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February 8, 2026
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...
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February 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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February 6, 2026
Late last night, President Donald J.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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February 5, 2026
The past two days have seen a growing struggle between Democrats, who are demanding accountability from the Trump administration, and Republicans trying to hide what the administration is up to.
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February 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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February 4, 2026
On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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February 3, 2026
Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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February 1, 2026
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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January 31, 2026
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:
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February 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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January 29, 2026
Public outrage over the violence of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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January 28, 2026
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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January 27, 2026
The murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning at the hands of federal agents has put wind in the sails of those trying to rein in the Trump administration at the same time it has sent t...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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January 26, 2026
Yesterday President Donald J.
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January 27, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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January 23, 2026
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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January 19, 2026
Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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January 17, 2026
After the extraordinary pushback on President Donald J.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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January 18, 2026
You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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January 15, 2026
You know what Americans aren’t talking about very much today after Trump’s threat to detonate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week and his threat this morning to invoke the Insurrec...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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January 13, 2026
Officials in the Trump administration insist its surges of federal agents into Democratic-led cities are necessary to round up undocumented immigrants, but the agents’ mission increasingly looks as if...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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January 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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The Trump Regime is Terrified of Minnesota—and They Should Be
How Minnesota Could Play a Key Role in Ending This Threat to Democracy
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January 13, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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January 12, 2026
Today, Democratic senator Mark Kelly of Arizona sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and the Navy Department for violating his First Amendment right...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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January 11, 2026
The news has seemed to move more and more quickly in the last week.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM