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State Rep. Claire Valdez, former New York City comptroller Brad Lander Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier during a "Get Out the Vote" rally ahead of a primary election at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on June 18, 2026. | Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty

Zohran Mamdani just took his first steps toward remaking the national Democratic Party.

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President Donald Trump speaks about proposed renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the Oval Office on June 3, 2026. | Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What should one make of the president’s mounting obsession with the Reflecting Pool?

On the surface,

A group of Afrikaner refugees listen to remarks from Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar at Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

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A worker from the National Park Service vacuums up algae in the Reflecting Pool on June 20. | AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

In addition to Iran,

Damon Landor, before his head was shaved by Louisiana prison officials. | Supreme Court of the United States

A Louisiana prison committed one of the most obvious violations of a man’s religious liberty that has ever made its way to the Supreme Court.

Damon Landor is a Rastafari who, for religious reasons, does not cut his hair — according to his lawyers, he k...