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Trump Urges Immigrants to ‘Self-Deport’
President Trump has recorded a video for social media in which he urges unauthorized immigrants to “self-deport” — and use a newly launched app to report that they’re leaving the…
Business News Networks Enter the Eye of the Storm
The Wrap: “The chaos of the Trump administration’s opening weeks, with his back-and-forth, on-and-off actions related to tariffs and wanton cuts to reduce government, has propelled the business channels into…
Abundance
Just out: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. “To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage.” Thompson, writing…
Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar
András Pethő: “As a Hungarian investigative journalist, I have had a firsthand view of how Orbán has built his own media universe while simultaneously placing a stranglehold on the independent…
The Fed’s Dual Challenge
Wall Street Journal: “Not long ago, it looked like Jerome Powell’s final test as Federal Reserve chair would be to stick the soft landing. Now, with about one year left…
Trump Team Looked at Simplified Plan for Tariffs
“Trump administration officials are roiled in debate over how to implement the president’s pledge to equalize U.S. tariffs with those charged by other nations, with aides scrambling to meet the…
Trump Could Appoint 300 New Judges
“Donald Trump is poised to reshape the US judiciary over the next four years through hundreds of potential appointments of rightwing judges,” The Guardian reports. Save to Favorites
Musk’s Team Evicts Officials at the U.S. Institute of Peace
“A simmering dispute between the Department of Government Efficiency and an independent agency dedicated to promoting peace broke into an open standoff involving the police on Monday, as Elon Musk’s…
They’re Starting to Figure Out He Had No Plan
Paul Krugman: “While much of MAGA is motivated by hatred of an open society — by racism, misogyny and the desire to end all things woke — the swing voters…
The Most Engaged Voters Are Still Solidly Democratic
David Shor: “There’s how many elections you vote in, or how important politics is to your identity. There’s how closely you follow the news. But across all of these, there’s…
Trump Moves to ‘Void’ Biden’s Final Days in Office
“President Donald Trump’s claim that the pardons signed by Joe Biden at the end of his term are now ‘void’ and ‘vacant’ began with an outcry among Trump allies about…
Wife of Ex-Senator Goes to Trial on Bribery Charges
“Less than two months after former Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was sentenced to 11 years in prison on federal corruption charges, the trial of his wife, Nadine Menendez,…
A Hugely Expensive Race in Wisconsin
With just two weeks to go until election day, the total spent in the contentious Wisconsin Supreme Court race is on track to reach a whopping $100 million, the Milwaukee…
How Matt Gaetz Poisoned the House Ethics Committee
“Scandal-ridden former Rep. Matt Gaetz is gone from Congress, but the wounds he inflicted on the House Ethics Committee that investigated him remain fresh,” Politico reports. “After the longest delay…
Trump to Slash Staff at IRS Taxpayer Help Office
“The Trump administration is set to cut more than 20 percent of the staff at the taxpayer help branch of the IRS, eliminating jobs designed to help people struggling with…
Americans Split on DEI Programs
Half of registered voters (49%) in the NBC News poll say DEI programs should be eliminated “because they create divisions and inefficiencies in the workplace by putting too much emphasis…
Trump’s Mass Deportations Hit Riskier Phase
“President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has reached a turning point in recent days, as the administration expands the group of immigrants it has targeted for removal, quarrels with judges and…
Trump to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
David Sanger: “To hear President Trump describe it, he and President Vladimir Putin of Russia are about to have something akin to their own Yalta moment, great powers determining borders…
Talks Follow Weeks of Diplomatic Turbulence
“President Trump is set to press his high-speed effort to bring the war in Ukraine to an end when he speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday,” the Wall…
Ken Paxton Plots to Take On John Cornyn
“Get ready for a blockbuster primary between Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2026,” Punchbowl News reports.. During a wide-ranging interview, Paxton “gave the clearest…
