The Trump administration’s relentless assault on the rule of law is a kind of arson: It is setting so many blazes that the fire department is having trouble putting them all out at once. Last week, Donald Trump asked the […]
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Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. President Donald Trump says he could bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant his administration wrongly deported to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador. But
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The arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over allegedly obstructing the apprehension of an undocumented immigrant is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary. You can just ask Attorney General Pam Bondi. “What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me,”
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Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The federal government has provided no evidence that Mahmoud Khalil has committed a criminal offense, and yet on Saturday night, he
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The conservative justices are frequently accomplices to Trump’s assault on democracy. Win McNamee / Getty March 5, 2025, 10:55 AM ET The exchange was so awkward, it should have been followed by the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song. While President
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With its ASMR videos of people being forced out of the country, the White House is turning suffering into entertainment. Two cutouts of President Donald Trump and a cutout of White House “border czar” Tom Homan stand alongside photos of
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The nostalgia behind the slogan “Make America great again” has always provoked the obvious questions of just when America was great, and for whom. Early in the second Trump administration, we are getting the answer. In August, speaking with someone
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In every Judge Joe Dredd story I’ve ever read, there is at least one almost comically obvious moment when the author makes clear that the protagonist is a jackbooted fascist and not someone to admire. This may come across to
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Donald Trump is most likely not trying to intentionally assemble a Cabinet chock-full of people accused either of sexual assault or of enabling it, but if he were, he’d be killing it. Former Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, who has
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The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced. Chip Somodevilla / Getty November 22, 2024, 6:30 AM ET Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle understandably wish to interpret the election results as a mandate for the
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