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Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

From Brian Karem: Those of us who’ve covered this comic-book nonsense before are in lockstep with my disgruntled source inside the White House: We want to get past all the deflections and concentrate on how Trump is destroying the country and how, just maybe, the United States can be reunited. “United we stand. divided we fall” — remember that one? Read more.

Young people can't save democracy by themselves: A new vision is required

From Chauncey DeVega: Time to think again. This model of political change rests on underlying assumptions that are being fundamentally challenged, if not disproved, by the Age of Trump and the rise of authoritarian populism, both in the U.S. and around the world. Read more.

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• Pope Leo XIV: Robert Prevost, an American, is the new head of the Catholic Church

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More than a plague: How colonialism, class and incarceration feed disease outbreaks

Connecting forced and chosen quarantines with experiences of incarceration, historian Edna Bonhomme explores the solidarity that can arise in situations of the greatest difficulty and oppression in “A History of the World in Six Plagues.” Read more.