Staffers said Trump is “lobotomizing our agency” by forcing thousands into buyouts and politicizing notions like environmental justice.
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NEW COLUMN ALERT: A late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
If I think of Autism as Place, then I arrive late at age 41, a bit timid, uncertain of the right words to say, but certain in what I know to be true: “Hi, I’m new here. And I’ve always belonged here. And I meant to come here. I want to be here. But I have to be honest, you’ve been hard to find.”
If an official time of entry exists, a record of belonging that doesn’t hinge on my awareness, then I suppose it’s 4:25 p.m. on a Wednesday in 1983 under the direction of a Midwestern doctor who wears glasses and jokes, “She’s got a good set of lungs, Brenda, that’s for sure!” Brenda is my mom.
Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.
The post The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners” appeared first on The Intercept.
“President Trump on Monday defended the US government’s plan to accept a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to be used as Air Force One, describing it as a ‘great gesture’ and saying that it would be ‘stupid’ to turn down, despite growing ethical concerns over the gift.” — The Boston Globe, 5/12/25
Once again, Democrats are up in arms about a supposedly unethical thing President Trump has done. This time, they’re claiming that Qatar giving the president a $400 million plane to use as Air Force One violates the Emoluments Clause. But the truth is, the Founding Fathers would have wanted President Trump to accept a luxury airplane from a foreign royal family.
- by Eliane Glaser
The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom
- by Alexis Shotwell
The quest to map a costly weather phenomenon
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Chemical analysis of a bird’s feathers offers a reliable way to tell whether it was captive-born or wild-caught
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Despite the latest forecasting science, climate change threw a wrench into this writer's latest seafaring voyage
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The hitherto US-centric economic model has exhausted itself, and Trump’s government is pushing to restructure the international economic architecture to maintain US hegemony. China is the main rival in this new reality, while the Europeans are becoming an impoverished appendage to the US. The Europeans could chart a more favourable path forward, except that they […]
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On the morning of 22 April 2025, the familiar sight of demolition machinery on the outskirts of Tuwani sent a wave of tension through the South Hebron Hills. Families froze, holding their breath as the destruction machinery slowly passed through the village. Children pressed against school windows, watching bulldozers drive by, their education interrupted by […]
It would give the Trump administration the power to strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems a “terrorist-supporting organization.”
The post Republicans Sneak Nonprofit Killer Bill Into the Tail End of Trump’s 389-Page Tax Plan appeared first on The Intercept.
In our previous share out, we focused on why contributors might engage in a Marketplace and the kinds of value they’re looking for. Since then, we’ve turned our attention to something even more foundational—trust.
If we want the Marketplace to succeed, contributors, agencies, and end users must believe:
That’s the work we’re deep in now.