National
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful. By Susan B. Glasser / The New Yorker
Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year. Greg Sargent / TNR
Trump’s crackdown on the left has decades of precedent. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Why Trump’s EEOC wants to talk to White men about discrimination. By Taylor Telford / Wash Post
MAGA will soon ‘be relegated to the dustbin of history’: Nobel economist. By Sarah K. Burris / AlterNet
Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Keisha Lance Bottoms Enters Georgia Governor’s Race, But Can She Succeed Where Stacey Abrams Did not? By Angela Wilson / The Root
4 takeaways from NYC Mayor Mamdani’s inauguration speech. By Marcia Kramer and Mark Prussin / CBS News
Trump’s Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook. By C.J. Polychroniou / Truthout
UMES President and Former Professor Battle Over Plagiarism, Race, and Retaliation Claims. By Walter Hudson / EduLedger
Dr. Michael Joseph Brown, Renowned Biblical Scholar and Seminary President, Dies. By Jamal Watson / EduLedger
In Mamdani’s New York, Muslims become a political and demographic force. By Tim Craig / Wash Post
Pope starts 2026 with prayer for countries “bloodied by conflict.” By CBS News
Richard Smallwood, contemporary gospel musician known for ‘Total Praise,’ dies at 77. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
More Than New Year’s Eve: Black Churches Nationwide Mark Freedom’s Eve With Sacred Watch Night Service. By Kandiss Edwards / Black Enterprise
How Trump is Threatening to Erase the Legacies of World War II’s Black Soldiers. By Phenix S Halley / The Root
Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics. By Joshua Bennett / The Atlantic
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level. By Peter Baker / NYT
Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Trump to Deploy National Guard in Chicago. By Ann E. Marimow / NYT
Special elections ordered for Mississippi Supreme Court after voting rights violation. By Ap and NPR
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce. By Madiba K. Dennie / TPM
How the GOP abuses its white Republican base. By Thom Hartmann / Alternet
Ramaswamy Challenges Conservatives on Surging Bigotry on the Right. By Pooja Salhotra / NYT
Black Men Are Committing Suicide at an Alarming Rate, But This Is How To Help. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Racial Harassment of Students Ignored by Trump’s Department of Education. By Jennifer Smith Richards, Megan O’Matz and Jodi S. Cohen / Propublica
Black Students Face Racism In Texas Schools With No Support. By Joe Jurado / Newsone
The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee. By Clyde McGrady / NYT
“A path toward others”: Pope Leo calls for peace and welcoming immigrants with compassion. By CK Smith / Salon
JD Vance, playing unifier, declares the US ‘a Christian nation.’ By Mark Silk / RNS
What We Get Wrong About Christian Nationalism. By Molly Worthen / NYT
