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I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam removal. Milltown's dam is not one that will come out...Read more

I used to work with a guy, and every morning, I would greet him the same way.

"Howyadoin'?" I'd say.

"I'm here," he'd answer.

And so, we were. We were there for eight hours, day or night shift, with two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch.

And, after work, we went to places where the job wasn't. Home. Target. A bar.

And in those places...Read more

How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed.

It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah Washington at 39, John Coltrane at 40. Billie Holiday ...Read more

I don't expect very much of President Donald Trump and generally, I'm not disappointed. In so many ways that we have come to take for granted, he is a small man, the antithesis of what we mean by "Presidential." Tall in stature, small in character. That's who we heard from this year on Memorial Day.

His message was garbage, partisan and mean-...Read more

Here in Washington, D.C., we endure slights of the president's barking, his constant use of capital letters and his ever-present red ties. These are forms of shouting, weapons of psychological warfare that he wields as the master of repetition. Then there's the 250-foot Arch he plans to build, which would block the view across Arlington ...Read more

Other than the fact that they are such blood-sucking greedheads, why have today's multibillionaires, high-tech barons of artificial intelligence (AI), become so despised by so many grassroots Americans?

By "so many," I mean they've sparked a hell-raising mass revolt, originating in farm country, spreading through working-class suburbs, into ...Read more

Teyana Gibson Brown was home with her husband, 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old cousin in January when 10 masked and heavily armed federal agents stormed into her house. The federal agents smashed through her front door with a battering ram. They pointed their rifles at Teyana and her family members as she stood in the doorway repeatedly ...Read more

Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade military service, the only convicted felon we've had ...Read more

For months now, Democrats have been arguing about whether to release the "autopsy" the National Committee commissioned on what went wrong in 2024. The report was completed but then not released; under pressure, Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin released the report this week, but only with the caveat that it didn't meet the ...Read more

Redistricting is the process of drawing the lines of districts from which public officials are elected. When redistricting is conducted fairly, it accurately reflects population changes and our diverse communities and is used by legislators to equitably allocate representation in Congress and state legislatures. When politicians use ...Read more

*Some names have been changed to protect identities.

When Jane* learned about President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, she immediately panicked. The order was slated to take effect July 27. Jane's first child was due just 10 days later.

Jane was filled with desperation and confusion. She wanted her son to be ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced the death of another person in its custody -- the 17th person so far in 2026. Deaths inside of immigration detention centers are rising and now occur at a rate of roughly one every six days. Since the start of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign, more than 40 people have ...Read more

From Los Angeles to New Jersey, many of the United States' host cities for the 2026 World Cup are home to large immigrant communities. Though this year's slogan is "Football Unites the World," these communities now live in daily fear of racial profiling, inhumane detention, separation from loved ones and summary deportation because of ...Read more