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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.

October 16, 2026 military, they, Wife, Reported, joined, “ICE0 comment

Giovanna Perez loaded her four kids into the car on September 21 and drove from their home in Weslaco, Texas, to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. She had a 9:30 a.m. appointment to pick up the ID cards that would allow them to access military medical insurance, facilities, and commissary stores. Her husband, Pedro Gutierrez, had recently enlisted in the Army and left a month earlier for basic training at Fort Benning, in Georgia. Perez approached the military guards at the gates with some trepidation. Her parents illegally brought her…

Trump’s October Surprise

October 12, 2026 trumps, October, Surprise0 comment

It rained most of Sunday in Washington, as the remnants of Hurricane Isaias washed over the East Coast. Unable to golf, and stuck inside the White House, President Trump spent part of his morning on social media touting the size of his rallies and defending Christopher Columbus. He also declared that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt strikes against each other’s energy infrastructures. Except that he hadn’t first confirmed that with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—and Russia spent the hours that followed bombarding Ukraine with missiles and drones, hitting a…

Kathy Hochul’s Improbable Turnaround

October 8, 2026 improbable, turnaround, Kathy, Hochul’s0 comment

On many mornings, as New York City is waking up, a diminutive grandmother from Buffalo puts on sneakers and a baseball cap and takes a 45-minute walk with her husband around the streets near their apartment on Manhattan’s East Side. Her security detail keeps its distance, and hardly anyone seems to recognize Kathy Hochul on these strolls, even though she has been the governor of New York for the past five years. Not many big-state governors enjoy such anonymity, but the spotlight has been slow to find the 68-year-old Hochul.…

A Reckoning in Springfield

October 4, 2026 Springfield, Reckoning0 comment

Photographs by Carol Guzy This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. He kept going over the details. “I run this route every day, like clockwork,” the trucker was saying, heading west to where he had first seen the man on the side of the highway. Now it was a Sunday morning, his day off, and Jack Buhring was driving his mother’s minivan, retracing the route, trying to make sense of what had happened less than a week before. His girlfriend, Renee…

The Great Data-Center Rebellion

September 30, 2026 Rebellion, great, DataCenter0 comment

Clinton, Iowa, is topographically flat and economically declining. The sawmills that made the city rich in the late 19th century have been repurposed as a museum. One of the Victorian mansions long since abandoned by the old lumber barons is open for tours, but tourists are scarce. Clinton has shrunk to about 24,000 people, and the town center, along the Mississippi River, feels nearly empty. On the west side, miles of deep-green corn and soy fields are crisscrossed with transmission wires and zoned for heavy industrial use. The city’s economic…

The Republicans Are Bolting From Trump

September 26, 2026 Republicans, from, Trump, Bolting0 comment

A few tentative displays of independence among Republicans have expanded in recent days into a stampede, as candidates furiously distance themselves from President Trump ahead of the midterm elections. “This is shaping up to be a nightmare political environment for every Republican, everywhere—period, full stop,” one Texas-based political consultant told us, speaking anonymously to provide a frank assessment. Noting that gas prices across the country are on average $ 4.50 a gallon, the consultant described the atmosphere as “a fucking disaster for anyone in a competitive race.” The contrast with…