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President Trump “fired a warning shot from the edge of autocracy” last week, said Thom Hartmann in The New Republic. The U.S. moved much closer to becoming a “police state” when Trump signed executive memoranda directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate public comments made by two former of...
“Once you grasp Trump as an elected monarch, his full rebuke to the very idea of America comes into clearer view. He is precisely—almost uncannily—what this country was founded to oppose: an arbitrary, corrupt, mendacious, and utterly incompetent king. We need to repeatedly expose this king’s long t...
An overflow of Chinese goods is flooding the global market. Tariffs won’t stop it.Why has China ramped up its exports? Domestic economic woes have made the world’s largest exporter even more reliant on sending goods abroad. Aiming to offset a major real estate bust, Beijing has made an all-out effor...
A sixth-grade teacher in Idaho was ordered to remove a classroom poster saying “Everyone is welcome here.” Sarah Inama said administrators told her that the poster’s depiction of hands with varying skin tones was a “political opinion’’ that violated President Trump’s ban on “equity ideology’’ in sch...
We may have just witnessed “the biggest example of market manipulation in history,” said Sasha Abramsky in The Nation. President Trump’s imposition of huge tariffs on nearly every country in the world had the stock market in a tailspin. But then last week, Trump told his followers on Truth Social “T...
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Speed Read The New Jersey Attorney General said a constitutional right like birthright citizenship 'cannot be turned on or off at the whims of a single man'
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