Hundreds of U.S. communities are making reparations for slavery and colonization
These efforts show how working locally to grapple with the complexity of land-based reparations is a necessary and feasible ...
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Ideas & Opinions — Jake Bronson: America, the land of the free?
As a young man putting on the uniform of the U.S. Marine corps was a very proud and special moment for me and thousands of others.
Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia ...
Trump’s tariffs are not ‘common sense’—and they’re putting America’s credibility and ‘exorbitant privilege’ at risk
The tariffs, which are taxes on international transactions, are destroying trillions in U.S. wealth, with the worst still to ...
Auto tariffs are now in effect. What it means for America - and you
President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs, which went into effect at 12:01 am ET on Thursday, have the potential to upend a ...
Greenland isn't the first territory America wanted from Denmark. Here's another.
Donald Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to consider taking land from Denmark. What did the U.S. want last time and why?
New America4d
How the Mega-Rich Bend the Rules: A Q&A with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores how the ultra-wealthy exploit global loopholes amidst policies like Trump’s gold card ...
At Nebraska’s Native American boarding school, location of child graves and closure prove elusive
It’s a mystery Fiscus pondered as she sat in a folding chair beneath the sweltering sun in July 2023 and watched as a small ...
For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
Feds Planning to Gather Whole Herds of Free-Roaming Horses in Checkerboard Region of Wyoming
The BLM is planning to gather and remove more than 3,000 wild horses over several years, with some herds being removed ...
The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
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The AI Data-Center Boom Is Coming to America’s Heartland
HOLLY RIDGE, La.—Manufacturers have passed over this patch of farmland for nearly two decades, a string of setbacks that left this one of the poorest corners of Louisiana. A quarter of the ...