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For 64 days, the federal government carried out a militarized immigration enforcement operation under the guise of making Chicago safer. A year later, why do people still feel so unsafe?

As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.

And created new ones.

For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.

Laura Murillo’s arrest last fall represented a rupture for Chicago’s immigrant community and in the life she had built around work and caring for her daughters. Six months later, she returned home to ...

In the middle of my bleakest winter, my friend Andrea gave me a battered copy of a forgotten book from her elderly father’s used bookshop in rural Texas, by a man named Hockley Clarke. I inhaled it…

Up to 13 different US states are considering tax reforms that would decimate local public goods, including public libraries.

“Friends, neighbors, it’s good to see all of you. I know you, you know me, and just seeing all of your faces at this city council meeting reminds me why I l...

At the ‘Crossroads of America’, money, detention and hardline immigration policies turn Indiana into one of Trump’s strongest allies.

In August and September 2026, Wild Ramp Publishing will give out at three $50 microgrants each month to Chicago zinesters or neighborhood/community orgs to create and print their original one-page min...