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Cartoon of Donald Trump holding a pencil, erasing petroglyphs.

Serious Reservations

The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.
by Kristen Martin via The Baffler
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on January 6, 2026
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with Administration members and foster-care advocates at a signing ceremony for the “Fostering the Future” executive order, on November 13th.Photograph by Anna Moneymaker / Getty

For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past

Putting religious rights of foster parents above civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.
by Kristen Martin via The New Yorker
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on November 23, 2025
A young boy peers out from a hole in a fence as his friends play basketball in a court where police officers are gathering for a patrol.

How White-Collar Criminals Plundered a Brooklyn Neighborhood

How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.
by Kristen Martin via The Nation
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on March 20, 2025
Overhead view of people walking around in the Mall of America

The Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere

A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.
by Kristen Martin via The Atlantic
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on June 21, 2022
Unaccompanied children in a train station

Novel Transport

The anatomy of the “orphan train” genre.
by Kristen Martin via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 1, 2021
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