Top Democrat Opposed Surveillance Bill — Then Whipped Votes For It Freddy Brewster and Veronica Riccobene, The Lever
You Can Get Dragged Into a Police Investigation by Proximity Alone — for Now Gaby Del Valle, The Verge
Nearly Two Decades After Landmark Indigenous Rights Declaration, Countries Still Aren’t Complying Dionne Phillips, Grist
Supreme Court Conservatives Further Gut Voting Rights Act Justin Jouvenal and Patrick Marley, The Washington Post
DoJ Indicts James Comey for Threatening Trump With Seashell Photo Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager, The New York Times
Iran’s Guards Seize Wartime Power, Weakening Supreme Leader’s Role Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Asif Shahzad, Reuters
US Ambassador to Ukraine to Step Down Amid Stalled Talks to End Ukraine War Humeyra Pamuk and Jasper Ward, Reuters
Logging, Murder and Money: Can Mexico’s Ancient Forests Be Saved From the Cartels? Euan Wallace, Guardian UK
Who Decided to Indict Kilmar Abrego Garcia Over a Years-Old Traffic Stop? Liliana Segura, The Intercept
Most Countries to Lose a Decade of Development Progress says United Nations as Global COVID Crisis Continues Jubilee USA Network, RSN Godot
Astronaut’s Journey To The Moon Yields New Perspective For Dealing With Enemies Of Democracy George Monroe, RSN Godot
Treasury Secretary Yellen Encourages Tax and Aid Deals to Confront Pandemic Olivia Engling, RSN Godot
Investigating the 1-6-21 Insurrection: What are the Republicans Afraid of? Dr. Steven Jonas , Steven Jonas
‘I Don’t Want to Be Part of a Dictatorship’: The Americans Queueing Up to Renounce Their Citizenship Zoe Williams, Guardian UK
Political Violence Is Reprehensible. That Doesn’t Make Trump Less Depraved. Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
The Pentagon May Not Be Telling Trump the Full Picture About the War Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, Michael Scherer, and Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic