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Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar
The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.
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The Trump Tariffs and the U.S. Labor Movement
A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was established to do this—he sees tariffs as a way for the U.S. to get even.
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What the doxxing of student activists means for the First Amendment
Is ICE following the lead of rightwing websites to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and activism?
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Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world’s most powerful firms.
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The attentional Oligarchy
Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.
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The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico
For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.
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Get ready for the end of Autism
The squatter and RFK Jr. have it all figured out—except for the figured out part.
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Harvard welcomes MAGA witch hunt, becomes the hunted
The leadership of the Democratic Party nationally and especially in Massachusetts–who run the state from the U.S. Congress to its governor to Boston-area mayors and city councils–are championing the Harvard Corporation’s “standing up” to the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing attacks on Harvard.
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Trump massacres Yemenis so Israel can massacre Palestinians
On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.
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Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education
See how much federal funding your school district could lose.
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CECOT: Bukele’s mega prison where “the only way out is in a coffin”
The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.
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Tariffs, Triffin and the dollar
Trump backed down because the bond market was showing signs of severe stress that could lead to a credit squeeze, particularly for hedge funds that own a significant stock of U.S. bonds.
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Diego Garcia: Ethnically cleansed for U.S. forever wars
As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.
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Trump threatens to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and visas for international students
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.
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American concentration camps
Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland.
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How countries like India should not respond to Trump’s tariffs
DONALD Trump has put off his proposed tariffs by ninety days; but countries like India have to respond to Trump’s measures whether now or after ninety days.
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Trump orders purge of Black History from Smithsonian, targets African American Museum
The executive order is chillingly titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It declares that the Smithsonian, once a symbol of “American excellence,” has become tainted by narratives that portray “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
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Trump’s inverted view of America’s tariff history
Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike.
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How the Trump administration is using civil rights complaints over ‘antisemitism’ to end DEI and quash dissent on Palestine
The Trump administration’s recent investigation of 60 schools for “antisemitic discrimination” appeared to target campus protests. But, a closer look shows it was driven by pro-Israel groups’ use of civil rights law to push a broad right-wing agenda.
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Harvard’s rejection of Trump’s authoritarian demands and the fight to defend academic freedom and democratic rights
On Monday, Harvard University president Alan Garber announced the university would not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to crush political opposition, hand over control of critical departments to government oversight and generally establish a reign of ideological terror and right-wing thought control on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus.