PIERRE DAMAS BEL CAME TO THE UNITED STATES legally, using the Biden-era CBP One app that allowed migrants to request asylum upon arrival. A temporary protected status (TPS) recipient from Haiti, he migrated in 2024 at the age of 18, joining his parents who had fled the violence-torn country.
Interview with Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama tells Jacobin that decades of suspicion of the state, from both the Left and the Right, helped produce America’s current crisis
Interview by John-Baptiste Oduor
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama wrote a sweeping philosophical polemic in which he argued that liberal democratic capitalism was the only viable economic and political system. Countries would either converge on its model or drift into dysfunction. What prevented states and individuals from accepting this fate was a fear of being the Last Man, a Nietzschean term for the individual living without ideas worth dying for. A world in which liberal democracy was triumphant was, Fukuyama argued in “The End of History?,” one without the tragedy and pathos of the era of great ideologies — safe but boring.
Two senior aides to Nigel Farage, the firebrand leader of the U.K.'s populist Reform party, have stepped down after the party was accused of breaking British electoral law concerning foreign funding in the wake of an investigative news report in which a journalist posed as a wealthy American's son who wanted to donate to the party.
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was released from federal custody Friday after pleading not guilty to lying to investigators about the circumstances that led to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minnesota immigration crackdown last winter.
Hayley Cuccinello
Sept. 4, 2026, 8:25 AM PDT / Updated Sept. 4, 2026, 11:30 AM PDTBy Marlene Lenthang, Rebecca Cohen and Corky Siemaszko
A judge on Massachusetts’ top court Friday denied a last-minute attempt by Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers to prevent the judge who had presided over her triple-murder trial from declaring a mistrial.
David Folkenflik
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday following a dramatic sixth day of deliberations.
Gloria Steinem is a feminist icon whose own history in the public eye began with her career as a journalist. Steinem, who died on September 2, 2026 at the age of 92, was in that role when wrote a story for the Aug. 20, 1965 issue of LIFE that was a sardonic look at Pop Culture. “A thing is either widely recognizable or it isn’t,” she wrote, “and whether it is good or bad needn’t be held against it.”
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