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President Trump takes questions from members of the press aboard Air Force One. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Samuel Corum/Getty Images President Trump once insisted he had “nothing to do with Project 2025,” the right-wing policy plan that became a key flashpoint during the presidential campaign. The Democrats tried to turn the 900-page Heritage Foundation-led blueprint to remake the government into a political boogeyman, and succeeded to some degree, but it wasn’t enough to win the election. A year later, many of the policies have been implemented, from cracking down on immigration to dismantling the Department of Education.…

Politics / January 14, 2026 If the Trump administration were truly concerned with fraud in social services spending, it wouldn’t start with childcare, and it wouldn’t start with Minnesota. Ad Policy Parents, teachers, childcare workers and community members hold up handmade signs defending local childcare programs during a press conference at a daycare center Minneapolis, Minn. (Alex Kormann / The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images) The allegations surfaced over a decade ago: A handful of childcare centers in Minnesota had defrauded the state and federal government by billing for children who weren’t actually being cared for. Then, during the…

Logan Sudeith, 25, estimates he clocks about 100 hours a week on prediction markets. Evan Frost for NPR hide caption toggle caption Evan Frost for NPR Ask Logan Sudeith how many bets he places in a week and he’ll laugh. It’s a comical line of questioning for the 25-year-old former financial risk analyst, who estimates he clocks about 100 hours a week on prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket. After a while, understandably, some of the bets blur together. What are his net profits, though? That’s a number he’s got at the ready. “Last month, I made $100,000,” said Sudeith, who…

Society / January 14, 2026 The tech oligarch sets a new low—for now—in the degeneration of online discourse. Ad Policy A Grok-generated image of a bikini-clad Elon Musk.(Leon Neal / Getty Images) In the last month, Grok, the AI chatbot anchoring Elon Musk’s X social media platform, has become the Internet’s leading maker of nonconsensual sexualized imagery, especially of young girls. There are other apps allowing users to “nudify” images, but none has the capabilities or the social media–enhanced reach of Grok—or the support of the richest man in the world. According to one researcher, Grok has been producing more…

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks during a media conference at the EU Summit in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP hide caption toggle caption Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP In a striking collective rebuke to President Trump, the leaders of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement Sunday condemning recent U.S. tariff threats tied to military actions they have taken in Greenland. In the statement, leaders of the eight countries underscored their commitment to shared NATO goals, saying that they stood in “full solidarity” with Denmark and Greenland. They also…

January 14, 2026 As Peter Thiel and other fat cats threaten to flee California over a billionaire tax, Khanna is calling their bluff. Ad Policy Representative Ro Khanna speaks at an “End Fossil Fuel” rally near the US Capitol on June 29, 2021, in Washington, DC.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Silicon Valley Representative Ro Khanna has the distinction of representing more billionaires than any other member of Congress. Despite this—or maybe because of it—he’s backing a state-level proposal that has infuriated some of his wealthiest constituents: a billionaire tax. The measure could appear on ballots this year, and if passed…

Activism / January 15, 2026 When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor rights. Ad Policy Workers with SEIU Local 26 and UNITE HERE Local 17 marched and rallied at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport alongside community members on December 3, 2026. They were for an end to deportation flights conducted by private companies such as Signature Aviation.(Amie Stager) This article is a joint publication of The Nation and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. In late 2025, federal immigration…

In a snowy Wisconsin border town on Friday night, Pete Buttigieg, the smooth-talking former Biden administration official, exhorted a boisterous town hall crowd to pressure their Republican congressman on health care, condemning “savage cuts” to Medicaid and efforts to “obliterate” the Affordable Care Act.A day later, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey told a small crowd at a campaign stop in a converted cotton warehouse in rural South Carolina that it was “the height of cruelty that the richest nation in the world should not be able to afford basic health care for its people.”The dual appearances were a preview…

Bishop Rob Hirschfeld in the chapel at the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire in Concord on Jan. 13, 2026. Elena Eberwein/NHPR hide caption toggle caption Elena Eberwein/NHPR A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop’s stark warning to his clergy is resonating across the nation, drawing fervent praise from some and rebukes from others. Bishop Rob Hirschfeld was one of several community and faith leaders gathered in Concord, N.H., for a vigil for Renee Macklin Good just days after she was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. Hirschfeld called out the “cruelty, the injustice and the horror ……

Politics / January 15, 2026 After taking countless lives around the world, RFK Jr. and his ghoulish compatriots want American children to suffer too. Ad Policy Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a policy announcement event at the US Department of Health and Human Services on January 8, 2026.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) During the height of the AIDS epidemic in the US, >the ACT UP–linked art collective created a poster with a large red handprint and the slogan “The Government Has Blood on Its Hands, One AIDS Death Every Half Hour.” Close to 40 years later, another US administration…