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  Hi there, It’s Monday. What a weekend — we’re now at war with Iran the United States and Israel striking dozens of sites and killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader. The justification for this war is incredibly thin and incoherent from the White House, and nobody really knows what happens next. Congress is back in town and they’ve pledged to vote on a war powers resolution, though it’s mostly symbolic at this point. Donald Trump and his administration have escalated tensions with Iran, including repeated threats of military action, without presenting a clear, evidence-based justification to the public. Independent analysis has highlighted that the administration has provided little to no public explanation for why a major act of war is necessary now—especially after claiming previous strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capacity and without demonstrating an imminent threat to the U.S. or its allies. Coverage often recycles administration claims about thre...

  Nonprofit, investigative journalism on a mission to hold the powerful to account. Donate March 02, 2026 ·  View in browser ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools The agency’s Office for Civil Rights aims to protect millions of students from being discriminated against based on disability, race and gender. Under Education Secretary Linda McMahon, that work has become cloaked in secrecy, the lawsuit alleges. Read story   More From Our Newsroom   What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster Apply: 2026 Investigative Editor Training Program Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court excerpt:  Last summer, I traveled to McLoud, Oklahoma, home to the state’s largest women’s prison. McLoud — ...

  October 6, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Oct 7   The scandal involving Herschel Walker, the staunchly anti-abortion Georgia candidate for the Senate who appears to have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, got worse today. After he claimed he did not know the woman who said he paid for an abortion, the woman said she was the mother of one of his other, newly acknowledged, children, so of course he knows her. Just five years ago, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA), who belonged to the Republican Pro-Life Caucus, resigned just hours after the story broke that he pressured a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. Now, Republicans are rallying around Walker, with former NRA spokesperson and former  Breitbart  writer Dana Loesch saying: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.” In the  Philadelphia Inquirer , columnist Will Bunch pointed out that Republican leaders have not condem...