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John Lowery, chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and a state representative (center) is comforted, as he cries tears of joy. Lowery and other members of the tribe gathered in Washington, D.C., to mark the passage of a bill granting full federal recognition on Wednesday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP After a 137-year struggle, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition from the U.S. government. Members of the Native American tribe shed tears as it reached the historic milestone in Washington, D.C., this week. Tribal Chairman John L. Lowery witnessed…

Economy / December 17, 2025 The president’s usual tricks are no match for a weakening jobs market and persistent inflation. Ad Policy Donald Trump in the Oval Office on December 15, 2025.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) In a sane political universe, we’d have cause to hope that Donald Trump would be losing public favor as a result of his many crimes, moral trespasses, abuses of power, and bigotries. The saga of his second term has involved his casually bypassing any and all guardrails to shore up small-r republican self-governance in the crass pursuit of his preferred megalomaniacal obsessions, from the…

With reported months-long consulate and embassy delays, Google and Apple say employees on H-1B visas should stay put in the U.S. right now to avoid the risk of getting stranded abroad. The latter tech company’s headquarters campus is seen in Mountain View, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple and Google are warning some U.S-based employees on visas against traveling outside of the country to avoid the risk of getting stuck coming back, as the Trump administration toughens vetting of visa applicants, according to recent internal memos from the tech companies that were reviewed by…

Feature / December 17, 2025 Twenty years after Katrina, the cultural workers who kept New Orleans alive are demanding not to be pushed aside.  Illustration by Victor Juhasz. This article appears in the January 2026 issue, with the headline “The Remembering Song.” Some people celebrated renewal. Some mourned loss. Still others just hoped for the comfort of a regular day. One word—resilience—kept popping up. That day—August 29, 2025—marked 20 years since the city of New Orleans was flooded after a series of levee failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The floods, which submerged 80 percent of the city, killed…

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building on Dec. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Department of Justice started releasing files related to the life, death and criminal investigations of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Friday. Files continued to be posted on its “Epstein Library” website on Saturday. But NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump’s photo on a desk among several other photographs. The removed files also show various…

Politics / December 19, 2025 Trump and his MAGA allies want people like Omar to vanish from this country—and they hate her for refusing to do so. Ad Policy Representative. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) walks toward the Capitol on December 10, 2025.(Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) President Donald Trump went to Pennsylvania last week to give a speech about “affordability.” It was sold as an economy speech, which is to say it was supposed to be about money and how people don’t have enough of it. Trump did talk about how the math isn’t his fault, and about whose fault the…

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign event, Friday, Dec.19, 2025, in Rocky Mount, N.C. Alex Brandon/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/Getty Images ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — President Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters in Rocky Mount, N.C. Friday night, capping off a week in which his administration has attempted to reassure Americans that the nation’s economy is improving. The event was reminiscent of a campaign rally. Trump recalled his time in real estate when he used to visit North Carolina to purchase furniture for hotels and lobbies. “And I was here a lot,” he…

Brad Lander is leaving his post as New York City comptroller and running for Congress in New York’s 10th District, which includes parts of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. A longtime progressive, Lander recently mounted a mayoral bid that finished third in the Democratic primary—but under ranked-choice voting, his cross-endorsement and campaigning alongside Zohran Mamdani helped consolidate progressive support and proved pivotal to Mamdani’s victory.In conversation with Nation president Bhaskar Sunkara, Lander reflects on that race, his years as the city’s chief fiscal watchdog, and the relationship between movement pressure and governing power. Bhaskar Sunkara: You spent over a decade in…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development faces legal challenges over proposed major changes to homelessness funding. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cannot impose dramatically different conditions for homelessness programs for now, according to an oral ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Rhode Island. McElroy granted a preliminary injunction to a group of states, cities and nonprofits who said a last minute overhaul of how to spend $4 billion on homelessness programs was unlawful. She also agreed with their argument that it likely…

Politics / December 19, 2025 Weiss’s ascent reveals the extent to which Hollywood, once a Democratic stronghold, has defected for a politics that puts the concerns and egos of wealthy people first. Ad Policy Rob Reiner in 2018 in Studio City, California.(Rich Polk / Getty Images for IMDb) It felt wonderful back when it seemed like the Democratic Party had conquered Hollywood. I mean, it basically had, a while back. After the blacklist, of course. When I was leading Salon.com in the early years of this century, I went to parties at Arianna Huffington’s house and met celebrities and, to…