For two sisters raised in a family of 11 children that moved back and forth between Washington state and South Dakota, danger didn’t come from outsiders like they’d been warned by their church. It came from their brothers in the next bedroom. Lynn said she was still in diapers when her abuse began. Two older…
Ad Policy Andy Burnham departs from the Trades Union Congress, after he was announced as the next leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the UK on July 17, 2026, in London, England. (Alishia Abodunde / Getty Images) Canada’s wildfires rage on, so Danny and Derek are here to be your breath of…
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: cryptocurrency. We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.” The industry’s lobbyists depend on that; they win when the public is kept in the dark. But this is the biggest money-and-power story in American politics…
Nearly a decade ago, a British court ordered a man named Sam Westrop to pay the equivalent of more than $173,000 in libel damages after he published an article on his website calling the founder of a London-based Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Westrop eventually admitted the underlying evidence for the claim was not…
In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent schools Democrats on the proper response to Trump’s speech. Plus: Where have all the African American baseball players gone? Ad Policy US President Donald Trump gestures after addressing the nation on July 16, 2026. (Saul Loeb / Pool – Getty Images) This is a preview of Nation…
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a 200-acre farm and cattle ranch in Bandera, Texas, Mollie Engelhart grows organic produce, sells raw milk, and writes a daily column about the power of regenerative agriculture. She’s a farmer and a Make America Healthy Again mom who doesn’t like being called a…
For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and persecuted minorities in poor and authoritarian countries. To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to…
Not even Fox News buys Trump’s new lies, but they will be used to undermine the midterms. Ad Policy Monitors display Donald Trump during a prime-time address to the nation in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz / UPI / Bloomberg via Getty…
As Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearings for U.S. Attorney General wrap up this week, anti-abortion activists are demanding that he demonstrate his “concern” for women by protecting them from abusive men — by making it harder for women to obtain abortion medication. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America recently sent a letter urging Blanche to resolve a…
