Between classes, when throngs of students stream into and out of Columbia University’s campus, the security lines can back up like a TSA checkpoint. There’s a switch-back path of metal fencing that leads into a white tent, where two sets of guards check and then swipe campus ID cards before …
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Thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees have a collateral duty to work on wildland fires as a part of a firefighting militia. Aside from their work monitoring fragile ecosystems and educating people about “Leave No Trace” principles, they are frequently called upon to jump on an engine, …
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Liz Oyer served as Pardon Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from April 2022 to March 2025. Throughout American history and regardless of presidential politics, the mission of the Department of Justice has been to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil …
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Early on Thursday morning, Elon Musk, who has led the efforts of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to purge tens of thousands of government workers on behalf of President Donald Trump, amplified a defense of Adolf Hitler on his social media platform, X. “Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t …
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Donald Trump, in his speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, said it “should be illegal” for people to criticize judges, adding that it “probably is illegal in some form.” It’s not the first time the president has expressed this sentiment — on the campaign trail last year, Trump …
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Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency — the federal agency that oversees more than $7 trillion in mortgage loans — is a man named Bill Pulte. Among the matters Pulte has been pressed on as senators weigh his confirmation is the fact that roughly 24,000 tweets …
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Jimmy Kimmel compared Donald Trump‘s long-running feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell to his own (fake) beef with Matt Damon. On the most recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host quipped that “this feud with Rosie’s been going longer than me and Matt Damon now.” Kimmel’s comment was in reference …
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President Donald Trump is threatening to levy a 200-percent tariff on wine and liquor products imported from the European Union after the alliance levied its own tariff on American whiskey products — the latest in a tit for tat tax battle with Trump. “If this Tariff is not removed immediately, …
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Nathan Tankus publishes the Notes on the Crises newsletter. In my last column in Rolling Stone 37 days ago, I explained that the constitutional crisis that Elon Musk and Donald Trump set off by refusing to spend what Congress ordered the executive branch to spend — a process known legally …
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The death threats were the first clue. On March 7, Laura Jane Grace played her new song, “Your God (God’s Dick),” at a Bernie Sanders “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” event in Wisconsin. A bawdy, and, yes, profane, sing-along, the track was meant to be a protest against …
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