Katherine McNamara
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Author, Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska. Editor/publisher, archipelago.org and Artist’s Proof Editions. Learning to build puppets.
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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But he told ProPublica the administration never cared to differentiate between the “fluff” and vital humanitarian programs. “It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” Nagy said, referring to the methods used this year. 8/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
But he told ProPublica the administration never cared to differentiate between the “fluff” and vital humanitarian programs. “It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” Nagy said, referring to the methods used this year. 8/x
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Instead, a cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations. 3/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Instead, a cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations. 3/x
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Publicly, the administration tried to temper international backlash by promising to keep or restore critical lifesaving programs.
But that promise was not kept. 2/x
But that promise was not kept. 2/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Publicly, the administration tried to temper international backlash by promising to keep or restore critical lifesaving programs.
But that promise was not kept. 2/x
But that promise was not kept. 2/x
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This leaves Americans paying more for energy while others seize the future.
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The EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its website
Some pages have been tweaked to emphasize ‘natural forces’; others have been deleted entirely.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This leaves Americans paying more for energy while others seize the future.
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