From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that received few protections.
Peter Rothpletz on the planned assassination of the top House Democrat, Graham Platner's latest crisis, JD Vance's disturbing remarks in Israel, and Cameroon’s presidential election.
On October 18, roughly 2,700 No Kings demonstrations took place around the US. Organizers estimated that 7 million protesters came out to denounce what they described as America’s slide toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. One of the largest protests occurred right in the nation’s capital, where National Guard troops are patrolling the streets and […]
This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal government contracting data by Popular Information. Records from the Federal Procurement Data System reveal that ICE has increased spending on “small arms, ordnance, […]
Trump’s hand-picked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan “is going to be the most subpoenaed person in not too long,” says a Trump-aligned federal law enforcement official.
“You know we’re the good guys, right?” Their faces were masked, but I could tell they were smiling. They mean “we’re the good guys and Hamas are the bad guys,” I thought. Later, though, with my hands cable-tied and my knees pressed to the tarmac, it occurred to me that they might have meant the police. They might have meant “you think the IDF are bad? Just wait until we hand you over to Israeli cops…” But that was later. For now, we were prey to Shayetet 13 (S’13), the elite Israeli naval commando unit.