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‘I realized, it might have to be me’: Lawyer resigns from firm over Trump deal, says ‘pay attention’

“I was hoping to get people to pay attention to what was going on,” says Rachel Cohen, a now-former Associate…

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Does Donald Trump even know what a trade deficit is? Here’s what it actually is

Donald Trump has been fixated on the trade deficit recently. He keeps bringing it up to rationalize the sweeping tariffs…

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‘Frat boys’ running economy no way to boost American manufacturing

The purported goal of Donald Trump’s broad tariffs is to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. But the…

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‘Hungry like the wolf for tariffs’: Trump’s trade policy unleashes chaos

What do Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have in common with the recently “de-extincted” dire wolves? What they’re selling you is…

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Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the soul of America

Two ongoing court cases involving lawfully present immigrants—Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Abrego Garcia—who were detained under legally dubious circumstances, have…

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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Good Boy’ by Jennifer Finney Boylan

In this Velshi Banned Book Club feature, “Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs” by Jennifer Finney Boylan, a life…

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How decades of Supreme Court decisions eroding personal freedoms could play into Trump’s hands

A series of Supreme Court rulings dating back to the 1960s have gradually weakened key constitutional safeguards, eroding personal freedoms…

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‘Unwilling to admit the truth or unwilling to follow the law’: How Trump is changing the judiciary

During his first term in office, Donald Trump succeeded in shaping the federal judiciary, including by transforming the ideological makeup…

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Judge rules Alabama cannot target people aiding abortion

A federal judge this week ruled that Alabama’s Attorney General, Steve Marshall, cannot prosecute state residents for assisting pregnant women…