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Autocrats Roll Back Rights and Cite Trump’s Example
Washington Post: “As Trump upends democratic norms at home, his statements, policies and actions are providing cover for a fresh chill on freedom of expression, democracy, the rule of law…
Academia Confronts Watershed Moment at Columbia
“Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university,”…
Elon Musk’s Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
New York Times: “As the Department of Government Efficiency roars through agencies across government, its targets have included some of the organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought…
IRS to Share Addresses of Undocumented Immigrants
“The Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow immigration officials to use tax data to confirm the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country…
Trump Takes on Lawyers with New Decree
“President Trump broadened his campaign of retaliation against lawyers he dislikes with a new memorandum that threatens to use government power to punish any law firms that, in his view,…
Depressed Democrats Find Hope at Bernie Sanders Rallies
Wall Street Journal: “As Democrats tussle with each other on Capitol Hill and struggle to find a strategy to combat Trump’s fast-moving agenda, Sanders is stepping into the void and…
How the Biden Autopen Conspiracy Theory Went Viral
New York Times: “In the first two months of this year, the term was mentioned a total of 49 times on television, radio and podcasts in the United States, according…
Agents Diverted to Immigration Crackdown
As President Trump aims to follow through on his pledge to carry out historic mass deportations across the country, “thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being…
The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
Washington Monthly: “What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right — and wrong.” Save to Favorites
Trump Demands Apology from Maine’s Governor
President Trump pressed Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) to issue a personal apology after the two didn’t see eye-to-eye earlier this month on transgender athletes, The Hill reports. Said Trump:…
Why Trump Targeted Columbia
New York Times: “A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.” Save to Favorites
Trump’s Approval Is Sliding
Nate Silver: “From the first full day of his presidency, Jan. 21, through yesterday — March 21: conveniently exactly two months later — Trump’s net approval rating has declined by…
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Elon Musk’s Political Machine Goes Local
“Republican candidates across the country are wooing the group for support for the 2026 midterm elections and other political efforts,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “In Georgia, gubernatorial candidates have…
The New Deep State
The Dispatch: “Donald Trump’s most lasting legacy may be the foreign policy apparatus forming in the shadows.” Save to Favorites
Bernie Sanders Draws Crowd of 30,000
“In what he described as his largest rally ever, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke to a crowd that filled Denver’s Civic Center on Friday evening, railing against billionaires and President…
Trump Will Continue to Target Law Firms
A White House official told the New York Times that “despite the deal reached with Paul Weiss, Mr. Trump would continue to target law firms with executive orders, including some…
Inside the GOP Effort to Venerate Trump
Politico: “The multi-front effort to memorialize a president who is still alive, let alone still living in the White House, has no precedent in congressional history. While none of the…
Biden Didn’t Recognize Eric Swalwell
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) — who ran against Joe Biden in 2020 — became concerned about his former rival’s mental acuity in 2023 at the annual White House picnic for…
Trump Seeks to Roll Back LBJ’s Civil Rights Legacy
“President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson’s civil rights legacy, rolling back protections that have shaped American life for nearly six decades,” Axios reports….
