Lauren McCauley / Maine Morning StarThe monitors will be dispatched to Portland and Lewiston, home to the state’s largest share of immigrants.Economic Justice
Dean Baker / Beat the PressReplacing patent monopolies with public funding for medical research could further lower costs and improve access to treatments.Ear to the Ground
Emma Lehman / TruthdigAs voters prepare to decide on the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, a collapsing healthcare system and the future of direct democracy hang in the balance.
Luke Savage / TruthdigFrance’s most famous economist says its youth are revolting against a model that has destroyed shared goods while funneling unprecedented wealth upward to a small few.Race
Natalia Cintra, Tosin Durodola / Africa Is A CountryTwo centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free Black Americans to Liberia, Washington is again using the country as a deposit for its undesirables.
Cate Brown, Aaron C. Davis, Sebastian Rotella / ProPublicaThe Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view.Global Voices
Diane de Vignemont / TruthdigWhile media have fixated on the violence, French students achieved something rare on the weekend: Sectors that usually fight alone marched together.Europe
Thomas Fazi / Responsible StatecraftWhile nearly all cases fall apart under scrutiny, the narrative of a gray-zone conflict with Moscow conditions citizens of Europe to believe they are under attack.
Technology
Veronica Riccobene / The LeverDraft artificial intelligence legislation circulated by Anthropic would permit dozens of projected deaths before triggering government intervention.
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Phineas Rueckert / TruthdigVeteran activist William Lawrence is channeling outrage over data centers to try to win one of the country’s most expensive races.TD Original
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Courts & Law
The monitors will be dispatched to Portland and Lewiston, home to the state’s largest share of immigrants.
Economic Justice
Replacing patent monopolies with public funding for medical research could further lower costs and improve access to treatments.
Ear to the Ground
MAGA Republicans follow a dismal pattern of excusing misogyny, pedophilia and cruelty.
TD Original
As voters prepare to decide on the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, a collapsing healthcare system and the future of direct democracy hang in the balance.
Opinion
France’s most famous economist says its youth are revolting against a model that has destroyed shared goods while funneling unprecedented wealth upward to a small few.
Race
Two centuries after the American Colonization Society shipped free Black Americans to Liberia, Washington is again using the country as a deposit for its undesirables.
Business & Economy
The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view.
Global Voices
While media have fixated on the violence, French students achieved something rare on the weekend: Sectors that usually fight alone marched together.
Europe
While nearly all cases fall apart under scrutiny, the narrative of a gray-zone conflict with Moscow conditions citizens of Europe to believe they are under attack.
Technology
Draft artificial intelligence legislation circulated by Anthropic would permit dozens of projected deaths before triggering government intervention.
Film
A decade-spanning documentary makes a plea for imperfect victims of war.
TD Original
Veteran activist William Lawrence is channeling outrage over data centers to try to win one of the country’s most expensive races.
TD Original
Remembering the columnist, memoirist and novelist.