Scenes of “law enforcement” that look like lawlessness are unfolding, daily, on the streets of America. Masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies jump out of unmarked cars. They wear masks and are often irregularly uniformed, in a slapdash assemblage of jeans and security vests. …
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About midway through our film Familiar Touch, Ruth (played by me, Kathleen), bursts into the kitchen of the memory care facility she’s just moved into. A professional cook, she believes she’s there for a day on the job. Knife in hand, she confidently takes over the prep station, showing the …
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It’s now official: New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, having toppled disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the establishment pick, in a wild primary that has already had seismic effects throughout the party. A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist, he will go up …
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Judges in federal courts have issued two major blows against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged immigration crackdown, ruling on Wednesday that the government cannot block undocumented migrants who enter the United States outside of authorized ports of entry from applying for asylum, and in a separate ruling that it cannot revoke …
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The Senate passed Donald Trump’s tax bill on Tuesday, sending the latest version of the legislation back to the House for more debate. The so-called “Big Beautiful BIll” slashes taxes for millionaires and billionaires, strips millions of lower-income Americans of health insurance, and adds trillions to the national debt. It …
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Donald Trump hates leakers. He isn’t a fan of journalists, either. He wants to punish them both in response to reporting that early Pentagon intelligence found the administration’s recent strikes against Iran weren’t as effective as the president has been claiming. “They should be prosecuted,” Trump said when Maria Bartiromo …
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This story is published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. B y Nov. 3, 2020, the day of the presidential election, 44-year-old Ian Rogers had been preparing for the implosion of American civilization for so long that it seemed like a …
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As Elon Musk continues to bash the Republican reconciliation bill, President Donald Trump is threatening consequences against the man who dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into his 2024 campaign, and who just months ago was effectively operating as his co-president. Musk’s opposition to the bill led to an explosive …
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President Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is far from beautiful and deeply unpopular with the public. Battling concerns from voters about increased barriers to accessing programs like Medicaid and food assistance; massive transfers of wealth from less fortunate Americans to corporations and the rich; and the …
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Senate Republicans have passed President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sprawling legislative package that is expected to kick millions off their health insurance, codify big tax cuts for the wealthy, give a massive funding boost to the administration’s mass deportation efforts, and screw over the nation’s poor with …
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