A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting | 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? |
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| Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics. |
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| If he doesn’t abandon efforts to reclassify and legalize marijuana, his administration will unleash a wave of corporatization and consolidation. |
| 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. |
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| 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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| Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity. |
| 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. |
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| It starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there. |
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| 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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