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Arts and Culture

Filmmaker-Photographer Lauren Greenfield on Rise of 'Generation Wealth' and Fall of the Empire

by Jordan Riefe

Latest news

Mother Fights for Months to Get Daughter Back After Separation

House Democrats Launch 'Medicare for All' Caucus

Trump Administration Takes 'Wrecking Ball' to Endangered Species Act

Trump Invites Putin to Visit Washington in the Fall

Israeli Police Arrest Rabbi Over Wedding Ceremonies

New Zealand Company Experiments With a Four-Day Workweek

American Conservatives Tied to Pro-Trump Trolls in Macedonia

At an Awkward Age, Finding Grace

TD Originals

The Stories Corporate Media Failed to Cover This Week

by Sonali Kolhatkar

Arts & Culture

Reading Against Fascism

by Henry Giroux / Truthout

National

House GOP Blocks Funding for Election Security

by MATTHEW DALY / The Associated Press

Social Issues

The Human Cost of Getting Used to Trump

by Bill Boyarsky

Science & Technology

Confront Digital Oligarchs and Defend Net Neutrality

by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

In Hawaii, an End of Innocence

by Gregory Glover

The Psychedelic Experience, 50 Years On

by John Densmore / MAPS

Scheer Intelligence

From Ali to LeBron James: Howard Bryant on Revolt of the Black Athlete (Audio and Transcript)

by Robert Scheer

Kimberly Reed and John S. Adams on Dark Money in Montana (Audio and Transcript)

by Robert Scheer

Nomi Prins on the Banks That Run the World (Audio and Transcript)

by Robert Scheer

International

Making Sense of U.S. Moves in the Middle East

by Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch

White House, State Department Clash Over Putin Offer

by MATTHEW LEE / The Associated Press

Immigrant Kids Held in Second Phoenix Office Seen Bathing in Sinks

by Aura Bogado / Reveal

Politics

The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom

by Chris Hedges

Indictment of 12 Russians: Under the Shiny Wrapping, a Political Act

by Scott Ritter

What Is Really Happening in Nicaragua?

by Kevin Zeese and Nils McCune / Popular Resistance

Opinion

Former Brazilian President's Kafkaesque Imprisonment: Defense Lawyer Valeska Martins Speaks Out

by Brian Mier / Brasil Wire

Cartoons

Stop and Smell the Flowers

Stop and Smell the Flowers

by Mr. Fish

And This Little Piggy Went to Market

And This Little Piggy Went to Market

by Mr. Fish

Doubly Negative (Video)

Doubly Negative (Video)

by Mark Fiore

Pruitt's Exit

Pruitt's Exit

by Mike Luckovich