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1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Solomon Jones

   Mississippi’s hard history, a search for justice, and the strange death of Nolan Wells | Solomon Jones (opens the original)

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   I was angry when I learned that a grand jury found no cause for criminal charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a Black teenager who died after a July 4 boat trip to an island in Mississippi with a group of white friends. The facts surrounding the case were strange from the time Wells went missing. His friends said the 18-year-old wanted to stay on Bird Island to talk to a girl, so they left without him, and Wells left his phone on the boat. Days later, when Wells’ body was found floating in the

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2. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · Solomon Jones

   Trump tips the mail-in ballot scale. The Supreme Court lets him. | Solomon Jones (opens the original)

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   There are those who would argue that Donald Trump poses the greatest threat to American democracy we’ve ever seen from a sitting president. However, with its decision to allow Trump’s executive order on limiting the use of mail-in ballots to move forward, the U.S. Supreme Court has surpassed him. The Constitution clearly gives states, and not the president, the primary authority to administer elections. Congress has secondary authority, but only under emergency conditions. That means the pre

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