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Trump’s crackdown on foreign students and scientists will do irreparable harm to the country.

Trump’s crackdown on foreign students and scientists will do irreparable harm to the country.


His team argues it can leave a wrongfully deported man in a foreign mega-prison.


Whoops! Republicans have somehow managed to violate Bush v. Gore.


Why Harvard and other rich universities aren’t tapping their fortunes to push back against the administration.
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Trump’s podcasting and new media allies in the “manosphere” don’t know what to make of his tariff policy.


The Obamacare wars are back.


Wall Street may be reeling, but it’s poor and working-class people who’ll be hurt by the Trump’s trade war.


The inconvenient truth about trade.


The authors of Project 2025 are at it again with Project Esther, a plan that’s supposedly about fighting antisemitism.


We don’t know what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts — and it should worry every American.


He thinks chaotic behavior gets him better deals. Instead it’s gravely harming the US economy.


Everyone likes cheap consumer goods that will get more expensive under Trump’s tariffs.


The odds of both scenarios have never been higher.


Even Trump’s lawyers concede that deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was illegal.


He’s trying to criminalize telling the truth about 2020.


Nobody knows what Trump will do next — and that’s a problem.


Democrats shouldn’t echo Trump’s myths about trade.


Trump’s power to declare a national emergency is a national emergency.


He paused some tariffs — and then escalated a trade war with China.


There’s a questionable assumption fueling the stock market rally.


His advisers claimed it was all part of the plan. Trump said otherwise.


Trump believes that if the US has a trade deficit with a country, they’re “beating” us. Huh?


It’s not just the wealthy.


Is America remaking the global economy or leaving it to its rival?


After the tariffs, they’re worried they made a MAGA mistake.


A conversation with Oren Cass, the right’s point person on tariffs.


Plus 6 other questions about Trump’s tariffs, answered.


Don’t judge tariffs on how Trump is using them.


Despite the fact there isn’t a plausible argument the Alien Enemies Act can be used to do so.


The Dow has lost more than 4,000 points since the president rolled out his tariffs.


Tariffs aren’t helping globalization’s losers — they’re victimizing them again.


Stagflation, explained.


Already distrusted on the economy, Trump’s tariffs will be a liability with the voters who put him in office.


Trump threw a blue shell at Nintendo — and the global economy.


Laura Loomer, a 9/11 truther, apparently gets input into the president’s national security decisions.


The true nature of America’s crisis has been revealed.


At least some GOP legal elites are lining up against Trump’s trade policy. That could be enough to sway the justices.


“You couldn’t have drafted these conditions better if you were a Chinese diplomat.”


And also more questions.


Trump is imposing ruinous tariffs because American democracy is no longer strong enough to stop him.


The president has broad authority over trade, but SCOTUS sometimes vetoes the president when they think he went too far.




The two electorates that are swinging American politics.

I want to believe I can make a positive impact from the inside, but maybe I’m deluding myself.
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