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Nicholas Liu is a reporter for the National Affairs desk. A former News Fellow at Salon, he grew up in Hong Kong and majored in history at the University of Chicago. Beyond writing and reporting, Nick loves mayonnaise, anteaters, 16th-century cabinets, Rafael Nadal’s down-the-line forehand passing shot and mayonnaise. You can find him on Substack at https://www.angrypeasants.com/

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The CoreCivic, Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center in California City, California on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

Private prisons are cashing in on Trump’s ICE crackdown. They’re just getting started

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MIAMI, FLORIDA - JULY 4: In an aerial view from a helicopter, detainees are seen at Krome Detention Center run by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 4, 2025 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Alon Skuy/Getty Images)

Is the U.S. running a concentration camp system?

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PORTLAND, OR - JULY 30: A journalist runs past federal officers after he was caught behind a police line during a protest against racial injustice and police brutality in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the early hours of July 30, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests against the federal presence in Portland continued Wednesday following an announcement by Governor Kate Brown that federal officers would begin a phased withdrawal from the city. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Mainstream media helped build the myth of law enforcement

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 11: Border Patrol agents are confronted by activists after making an apprehension on January 11, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has sent an estimated 2,000 federal agents into the area as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

ICE escalates war on civilian accountability

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A Palestinian man walks on his crutches to the Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on new year's Eve, December 31, 2025. Israel has said 37 aid organisations will be banned from operating in Gaza from January 1, 2026, unless they comply with guidelines requiring detailed information on Palestinian staff, drawing criticism from the United Nations and the European Union. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza aid groups continue work amid Israel’s ban

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05 January 2026, Venezuela, Caracas: Detail of a statue on the subject of oil in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo by Javier Campos/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Trump’s Venezuelan oil rush is doomed from the start

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Adolf Hitler visits the Dresden exhibition "Degenerate Art" in 1935. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to crush a nation’s soul: The Nazi crusade against “degenerate” art

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani joins the weekly demonstrations outside of Tesla stores to protest Elon Musk and his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, March 29, 2025, in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Is New York City ready for a socialist mayor? Zohran Mamdani bets yes

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Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Second Vespers of the solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unit, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Pope Francis, Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died at 88

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Laptop and open bible with glasses (Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Holy ghostwriter: The rise of AI sermons and the fight for the faithful’s trust

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From left: Former Nazi diplomat Franz von Papen, financier Hjalmar Schacht and propaganda chief Hans Fritsche after their acquittal on war crimes charges in Nuremberg, Oct. 4, 1946. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

When big business rolled over for fascism — and cashed in: A lesson, or a warning?

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York City, on April 3, 2025. Wall Street stocks sank in early trading on April 3,2025, joining a global equity selloff after President Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement exacerbated worries about a trade war and global economic downturn. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

“Worse than the worst-case scenario”: Stock market nosedives after Trump tariff announcement

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. and Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time “we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years”

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Elon Musk attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on November 14, 2024. (Saul Martinez for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Our courts are not for sale”: In setback for Musk, liberal candidate wins Wisconsin court seat

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump DOJ says “administrative error” led to an innocent father being sent to an El Salvador prison

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) special agent preparing to arrest alleged immigration violators (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

“A vicious dagger”: College Democrats condemn ICE arrest of University of Alabama doctoral student

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The Signal app logo can be seen through a magnifying glass on the display of a smartphone on February 19, 2025. (Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The Atlantic releases full texts showing sensitive Yemen attack information was shared on Signal

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe appear during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“This is an embarrassment”: Democrats grill Trump intelligence officials over Yemen group chat leak

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U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“It happens”: Republicans shrug off Trump administration’s leak of Yemen war plans

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Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light" (Nick Briggs/Playground Television/PBS)

In the long-awaited sequel to “Wolf Hall,” mortality stalks Cromwell’s conscience

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Entrance of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Trump to sign executive order that purports to dismantle the Department of Education

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“It pisses me off”: JB Pritzker channels liberal anger at Trump — and his own party

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Retired judge and and informal advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, J. Michael Luttig, testifies during the third hearing of the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has “declared war on the rule of law,” says retired conservative judge J. Michael Luttig

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A Palestinian youth inspects the rubble from the destroyed house of the Qrayqea family in the Shujaiya district in eastern Gaza City on March 18, 2025 following Israeli strikes at dawn. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

“Like Armageddon”: Israel resumes its war on Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians

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