Trump and Putin Find Common Ground on Joe Biden
New York Times: “During their private meeting and their public appearance in Anchorage on Friday, both leaders blamed Mr. Biden for the war in Ukraine, never mind that Mr. Putin was the one who ordered troops to invade his neighbor and keeps authorizing strikes against civilian targets.”
“The Russian president complained that Mr. Biden did not accede to Russian demands before the full-scale invasion three and a half years ago, and he played to the current president’s ego by agreeing that the war would not have happened had Mr. Trump still been in office in 2022. By Mr. Trump’s account, Mr. Putin behind closed doors also endorsed the lie that Mr. Trump actually won the 2020 election, only to have it stolen by Democrats.”
Justices Could Scrap High Profile Precedents
“The Supreme Court’s landmark opinion on same-sex marriage isn’t the only high-profile precedent the justices will have an opportunity to tinker with – or entirely scrap – when the court reconvenes this fall,” CNN reports.
“From a 1935 opinion that has complicated President Donald Trump’s effort to consolidate power to a 2000 decision that deals with prayer at high school football games, the court will soon juggle a series of appeals seeking to overturn prior decisions that critics say are ‘outdated,’ ‘poorly reasoned’ or ‘egregiously wrong.’”
Trump Officials Hint at Possible Concessions by Putin
“President Trump and two advisers spent Sunday trying to recast the lack of a cease-fire in the war in Ukraine as one step in a possibly slow march toward peace,” the New York Times reports.
“It was a significant departure from the peace agreement that the president said he had wanted out of a meeting in Alaska with President Vladimir Putin of Russia just 48 hours earlier.”
Democrats Find Their Voice
Associated Press: “As the Republican president pushes states to redraw their congressional districts to the GOP’s advantage, Democrats have shown they are willing to go beyond words of outrage and use whatever power they do have to win…”
“There is no guarantee Democrats can prevent the Republican-powered redistricting, just as Democrats on Capitol Hill have not been able to stop Trump’s moves. But it’s a notable turn for a party that, by its own leaders’ admissions, has honored conventional rules and bypassed bare-knuckled tactics.”
Latin American Experiment in Socialism Nears End
Washington Post: “For nearly two decades, politics in Bolivia has been dominated by one man: Evo Morales, acolyte of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, antagonist of the United States … But the movement he built now verges on collapse.”
“The economy, now in the hands of a former protégé, is struggling through its worst crisis in decades…”
“The presidential election on Sunday could mean the end of a socialist era. Two right-leaning candidates are leading in the polls. And for the first time since Morales was elected president in 2005, neither he nor a stand-in will be on the ballot.”
How Will the War in Ukraine End?
Wall Street Journal: “Ukraine could lose land but survive as a secure and sovereign, if shrunken, nation state. Alternatively, it could lose both land and sovereignty, falling back into Moscow’s sphere of influence.”
Trump Is Losing Young Voters
G. Elliott Morris: “About a third of the young people who voted for Trump do not approve of his presidency.”
European Leaders to Join Zelensky for White House Meeting
“European leaders said Sunday that they will join President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Monday when he meets with President Trump at the White House, as they strive to present a united front against Russia and avoid being sidelined in talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, were among the leaders who announced that they will join Mr. Zelensky in Washington. Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, will also join, as will NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm.”
Washington Post: European, NATO leaders to present united front with Zelensky in Trump meeting.
Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice
New York Times: “President Trump, himself a felon, has shown particular leniency to criminals he seems to identify with — people who are white or wealthy, or who rioted in his name on Jan. 6, 2021.”
Putin Returns to Moscow With Air of Triumph After Summit
“Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t have scripted his first visit to the U.S. since 2015 much better,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Russian leader strutted along a red carpet at a U.S. air base and posed smiling with President Trump, who had weeks earlier been expressing mounting frustration with him and threatening to hit Russia and its trading partners with sanctions. He met with Trump under a sign that read ‘pursuing peace.’”
“When they emerged 3½ hours later, the leaders said they hadn’t reached a deal. Instead, Putin used the stage to press his demands on Ukraine. Neither Trump nor Putin, who is facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes, took questions from the U.S. press.”
Putin Sees Ukraine Through a Lens of Grievance
New York Times: “After all of the pre-summit talk of land swaps and the technicalities of a possible cease-fire in Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin made clear after his meeting in Alaska with President Trump that his deepest concern was not an end to three and a half years of bloodshed. Rather, it was with what he called the ‘situation around Ukraine,’ code for his standard litany of grievances over Russia’s lost glory.”
How to Keep Up With President Trump
New York Times: “A White House reporter discusses the pressures that come with covering a ‘fire hose’ of information.”
Redistricting Push Would Further Divide a Polarized Congress
“President Trump’s drive to secure Republican advantage in the House through mid-decade redistricting — and Democrats’ move to retaliate with their own efforts to redraw political lines to their advantage — could supercharge the partisan shift in Congress,” the New York Times reports.
“Should the efforts succeed, they would amplify the trend of one party gaining a stranglehold on state congressional delegations, intensifying the deep polarization that has helped to paralyze Congress in recent years.”
Inside Newsom’s Decision to Fight Fire with Fire
Los Angeles Times: “Deep in the badlands of defeat, Democrats have soul-searched about what went wrong last November, tinkered with a thousand-plus thinkpieces and desperately cast for a strategy to reboot their stalled-out party.”
“Amid the noise, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently championed an unlikely game plan: Forget the high road, fight fire with fire and embrace the very tactics that virtue-minded Democrats have long decried.”
“Could the dark art of political gerrymandering be the thing that saves democracy from Trump’s increasingly authoritarian impulses? That’s essentially the pitch Newsom is making to California voters with his audacious new special election campaign.”
Why Fascists Fear Teachers
Out next month: Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy by Randi Weingarten.
A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy.
Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Weingarten, Randi (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 09/16/2025 (Publication Date) - Thesis (Publisher)
Europe Sending Heavy Hitters Alongside Zelensky
Politico: “Plans are in the works to send at least one of Trump’s favorite interlocutors, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, along with Zelenskyy when he comes to Washington Monday to meet with Trump.”
“The idea is that Stubb can help prevent any flare-ups between Trump and Zelenskyy and convince the U.S. president to include Europe in any further talks.”
It’s Clear That Putin Rolled Trump
Stephen Collinson: “Russian President Vladimir Putin got everything he could have hoped for in Alaska. President Donald Trump got very little — judging by his own pre-summit metrics.”
“The question now is whether Trump secured any moderate gains or planted seeds for Ukraine’s future security if there’s an eventual peace deal with Russia that were not immediately obvious after Friday’s summit…”
“Despite Trump’s claim to have made ‘a lot of progress’ and that the summit was a ‘10 out of 10,’ all signs point to a huge win for the Russian autocrat.”
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