On this day in 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy began serving sentences in Birmingham after defying a city ban on anti-segregation protests.

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Tremendous resource: ProPublica has cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent detaining a citizen during the current Trump administration. Explore our database to learn more about each incident.

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It deeply disturbs me how many otherwise liberal and leftist people are willing to just accept a future where only the children of the wealthy can pursue the arts. That’s bullshit. We can do better than that.

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There was a moment in the 1990s when Newt Gingrich was sneering about public funding for the arts and said something like "Arthur Miller didn't need government money!" and then Arthur Miller wrote an op-ed noting that he had, in fact, been saved in the Depression by Federal Writers Project.

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"When we seem like we're scared to have a few dozen international observers watch the practice of our democracy, it looks like an act of weakness." Longtime Colorado politico and diplomat Dan Baer joins us Wednesday as the US rebuffs European election observers for the first time in two decades.

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