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The Supreme Court’s Rebuff of Trump Is More Ominous Than It Looks

Two conservative justices joined the three liberals in ordering the administration to pay USAID contractors who are owed around $2 billion. But can that unlikely split hold?

By Matt Ford

 

This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics.

By Jacob Silverman

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Donald Trump Is Going to Ruin Legal Marijuana

If he doesn’t abandon efforts to reclassify and legalize marijuana, his administration will unleash a wave of corporatization and consolidation.

By Malcolm Ferguson

 

How Did America Not See This Apocalypse Coming?

Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway.

By Alex Shephard

 
 
 

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"Rule of Law Shock and Awe": Norm Eisen’s Legal War on Trump and Musk

Lawyer Norm Eisen talks with TNR editor Michael Tomasky about the dozens of anti-Trump lawsuits he’s involved with—and how he’s winning.

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Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming "Emergencies"

Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.

By Katherine Stewart

 

Trump’s Rage Over "Low" Deportations Suddenly Gets More Unnerving

A new DOJ memo argues that immigration judges can be stripped of civil service protections. That could lay the groundwork for firing them if they don’t rule the "right" way.

By Greg Sargent

 
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Jeff Bezos Has a Very Billionaire-ish Idea of What Freedom Means

We need media that advocate for well-being, not gaslight people into believing their suffering is liberty.

By Kate Woodsome

 

Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night

It starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there.

By Thom Hartmann

 
 

RSVP Now: Working and Homeless in America

On March 25, TNR contributors Kim Kelly and Brian Goldstone introduce us to Goldstone’s new book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. By telling the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the "working homeless" in cities across America.

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