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Image by Steve Knutson. In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I’ve joined countless protests and vigils outside the Court. In 2018, I was even arrested and held in detention for praying on its palatial steps. Now, I was seated with a clear view of the nine justices of the nation’s highest court. I was there as a guest of immigrant rights lawyers, as their team made oral arguments in Noem v. Al Otro Lado, the most significant case on the…

When the Declaration of Independence Was News, by Emily Sneff, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $29.99 The men who drafted the Declaration of Independence read the newspapers in Philadelphia, and they were influenced by the rumors being reported. When the Continental Congress voted to declare independence, the delegates knew they were making news that would be circulated throughout the world. Yet scholars haven’t described American independence narrowly and specifically as a news event—until now. In When the Declaration of Independence Was News, Emily Sneff interweaves many distinct events into a holistic account of how the news of American independence was produced,…

Ahistoric synagogue in Tehran, originally built in 1958, was destroyed on the Jewish holiday of Passover by Israeli airstrikes on April 7th. The Rafi-Nia Synagogue, located in central Tehran, was one of the longstanding institutions serving Iran’s Jewish community. Constructed in 1958, it stood as both a place of worship and a symbol of the deep historical roots of Judaism in Iran, which stretch back more than two millennia. “We are Iranian Jews and we are always ready to sacrifice our lives for our homeland,” Bihdad Mikhail, managing director of the Tehran Jewish Association, told MintPress News as he held…

LSD was famously pioneered by the CIA and adopted by the hippie movement. But it wasn’t the only psychedelic technology that made its way from the deep state to artsy subcultures. Infrared color photography, originally developed to help spy planes unmask enemy camouflage, has become a favorite of hobby photographers long after the surveillance method became obsolete. It’s a beautiful example of a warlike technology being turned toward peaceful ends. During World War II, scientists at Kodak developed a film known as Aerochrome that would shift the spectrum of light such that infrared showed up as visible red. The reason was simple:…

Photo by Bradley Andrews Imagine celebrating the price of corn or wheat hitting a record high. That would make perfect sense if you grew corn or wheat, but it’s hard to see why anyone else would be celebrating. This is the same story with the stock market, even though shareholders are a somewhat larger share of the population than corn or wheat farmers. But the basic principle is the same. In principle, the stock market reflects expectations of future after-tax corporate profits. Expected profits can rise because the economy is expected to grow more rapidly, and corporations will get their…

Today the Supreme Court issued an order in Smith v. Scott, a qualified immunity case. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari. Smith had been floating around for a long time. It was first distributed to conference back in September 2025. Zorn, the case that caused the GVR,…

This week, Andrew Heaton is joined by Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman, who recently turned a police raid on his home and the lawsuit that followed into an unlikely free speech victory and a new chapter in his career. Afroman explains how officers raided his house, damaged his property, seized cash, and then sued him after he used the security footage in his music videos to mock them. He argues that the real issue was not just the raid itself, but the lack of accountability that followed, and says the verdict was a win for ordinary Americans who want the right to…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Points of Departure It seems an opportune time to scrutinize how it has come to pass that the U.S. has become a menace to others as well as to itself. Remembering its early vision of being a peaceful democracy that confined itself to the Western Hemisphere without entangling alliances and suspicious of a standing army that was institutionalized as part of governance and national security, other than in conditions of wartime. This was not the whole truth, which blurs this mythified positive self-image of ‘greatness’  or ‘American exceptionalism’ by reminding dogmatic patriots of genocidal policies…