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A Graphic Novelist Digs Up His Childhood, One Ginseng Root at a Time

admin29 April 2025

Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community.

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Immigration Has Always Been Complex. Just Ask the People Who Built U.S. Railroads.

admin29 April 2025

In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.

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Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

admin29 April 2025

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.

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Cargo That Set Off Blast at Iran Port Was Improperly Documented, Investigators Say

admin29 April 2025

The death toll from the explosion rose to 70, as officials said the massive blast involved a shipment whose documentation obscured the nature of the substances it carried.

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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm

admin29 April 2025

The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration. “ZMoney” was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran a company called Date Hotter Girls and was now representing ...

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Trial Opens for 2 Men Accused of Felling Sycamore Gap Tree

admin29 April 2025

The men have pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal destruction. The cutting down of the tree, an icon in Britain, stunned people across the world in 2023.

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Which Is More Dangerous, Trump Triumphant or Trump in Trouble?

admin29 April 2025

The window of opportunity that allowed President Trump to overwhelm his adversaries with an onslaught of executive orders dismantling core American institutions is closing. Public opinion has turned against him, the economy is faltering, the Supreme ...

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There Are Limits to What the Courts Can Do in the Face of Trump’s Legal Onslaught

admin29 April 2025

For weeks Americans have been debating whether we’re facing a constitutional crisis. My answer, for the record, is that we are. But perhaps more than a constitutional crisis, we’re in a rule of law crisis. And while the courts are caught in the ...

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Abundance and the Left

admin29 April 2025

transcript Abundance and the Left Saikat Chakrabarti and Zephyr Teachout offer their perspectives on why America struggles to build. It is a wild thing to release a book into the world. “Abundance,” the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, has been ...

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Justice, Louisiana-Style, for Immigrants

admin29 April 2025

Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk ...

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