Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans

5 days 15 hours ago
Donald Trump has made false claims about voter fraud central to his political identity and issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order in March. Now he’s weaponizing the Justice Department to advance his voter suppression agenda. On Tuesday, in its first major voting-related lawsuit, the Trump Justice Department sued the state of North Carolina over its […]
Ari Berman

Trump Can’t Escape the Original Sin of His Presidency: His Bond with Putin

5 days 16 hours ago
Donald Trump set off another social media eruption on Tuesday when he posted on his money-losing Truth Social site, “What Valdimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!” Here apparently was evidence […]
David Corn

Elon Musk Made Your Life Worse

5 days 16 hours ago
Elon Musk’s announcement on Wednesday that his “scheduled time” working for President Donald Trump is ending was instantly met with a mix of celebration and schadenfreude. And for once, the delight is likely to include both critics of the president and Trump-world. This is not surprising. Musk’s personality, by all accounts deeply unlikeable, had been […]
Inae Oh

Harvard Is Trying to Resist Trump. It Might Not Be Working.

5 days 18 hours ago
The university has been locked in a battle with the administration, facing threats to its funding and international students.
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