It all started with calf tightness. When Brooke Eby started walking funny in 2018, she thought it was a muscle issue. A business development manager then in her early twenties, Brooke was healthy, exercised, and had a pretty average work-life balance. But when her limp became pronounced enough that friends …
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America’s pro-democracy movement is gearing up for what may be its biggest mass demonstration yet against the increasingly militaristic Trump administration — which has sent armed troops to occupy the nation’s capital and is threatening to do the same in large cities from Chicago to New Orleans. Popular resistance in …
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After nearly three months in immigration detention, a federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration must release pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. The graduate of Columbia University — who was stripped of his permanent residence and arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March — has been held …
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Seven minutes from bucolic Molly Maguire Historical Park in Frackville, Pennsylvania is the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy. Behind the dull-grey concrete walls and razor wire, in a situation he describes as “live from slow motion death row,” is Mumia Abu-Jamal, prisoner AM 8335. At one time an international cause, …
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As President Donald Trump continues to bow down at the altar of the fossil fuel industry and decimates federal commitments to confront the worsening climate crisis, activist groups in the United Kingdom took to the streets to grieve over losses and organize for renewed action. Today, Extinction Rebellion Cambridge and …
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“Cute winter boots.” “Where to find cute winter boots.” “Have you seen my cute winter boots?” In the weeks following Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, the phrase has dominated many For You pages on TikTok. But the expression isn’t about creators shopping for lace-up or nonslip footwear options …
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Minnesota superfan Aidan Jahane Gallivan was on the hunt. Her favorite artist Chappell Roan, a pop star on the precipice of superstardom, released a special edition vinyl of her 2023 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. Gallivan couldn’t wait to get her hands on the collector’s item. …
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NEW YORK — Activists and donors, young and old, packed into a luxury co-op on the Upper West Side last Wednesday to celebrate the one-year birthday of Climate Defiance, a disruptive climate action group that is quite good at making powerful politicians, government officials, and corporate executives uncomfortable — with …
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The school had dirt floors and no chairs for the kids to sit on, let alone desks to work at. The 20 or so ninth-graders knelt shyly in formation on the carpet. Hana and I stood at the head of the room, two prep-school girls from the Upper East Side …
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Adam McKay would like to bring to your attention that the world is burning. “We’re living in a ridiculous farcical comedy, but the consequences are real,” says the director who turned a planet-ending comet into a metaphor for climate change in his film Don’t Look Up. “We can’t seem to …
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