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Battle of the Bulge Episode 2: The Malmedy Massacre
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Battle of the Bulge Episode 2: The Malmedy Massacre
This is the second installment of the Battle of the Bulge series for Journey to American Democracy.
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January 13, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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CBS News is trashing its credibility
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CBS News is trashing its credibility
The Bari Weiss-led operation is giving Trump just what he wants, wrecking a once-proud home for journalism
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January 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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December 28, 2025
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December 28, 2025
On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Don’t put Trump on Mount Rushmore!
A wave of recent Republican bills aim to glorify Trump by putting his face on Mount Rushmore and U.S. currency, and his name on airports, transit systems, and the Kennedy Center. One piece of legislat...
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September 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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July 15, 2025
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July 15, 2025
Without any explanation, the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court yesterday granted a stay on a lower court’s order that the Trump administration could not gut the Department of Education while th...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Tell Congress: Unmask ICE!
Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are re...
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July 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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June 4, 2025
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June 4, 2025
Just hours after President Donald J.
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June 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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May 31, 2025
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May 31, 2025
“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.
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June 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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May 8, 2025
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May 8, 2025
Today, on the second day of the papal conclave, the cardinal electors—133 members of the College of Cardinals who were under the age of 80 when Pope Francis died on April 21—elected a new pope.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Trump Has Made Claims About Abrego Garcia’s Tattoos. Here’s a Closer Look. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
Trump Has Made Claims About Abrego Garcia’s Tattoos. Here’s a Closer Look.
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May 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
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April 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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April 28, 2025
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April 28, 2025
There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans to standing firmly against MAGAs and articulating their ow...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Demand Congress immediately STOP funding for CECOT and launch an independent investigation into the megaprison. sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
No Taxpayer Funds for CECOT—the Salvadoran Megaprison
Our taxpayer dollars should not be spent funding human rights abuses, period. Add your name to demand Congress immediately STOP funding for CECOT and demand an independent investigation into the megap...
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April 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...
How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions
Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.
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April 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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What Journalism Isn’t
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What Journalism Isn’t
"Journalism isn’t easy, but it’s damn important, and more people in the news industry need to start doing it before they wake up one day and realize that journalism has become illegal."
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April 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Defend Public Broadcasting!
Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR ar...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia Home
Kilmar is not alone. He is one of over 250 immigrants deported without due process, as part of Trump’s $6 million deal with Bukele’s government—a plan to funnel immigrants, often with no criminal reco...
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April 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
Today, U.S.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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April 12, 2025
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April 12, 2025
It was just 20 days ago—on March 24—that editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that the most senior members of the Trump administration discussed a military strike on the Houthis i...
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April 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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April 2, 2025
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April 2, 2025
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025
“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.
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March 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM