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See how much federal funding your school district could lose.

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.

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.

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.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status.

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.

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.

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.”

Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike.

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.

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.

Panama’s opposition parties accused the U.S. of launching a “camouflaged invasion” amid escalating tensions over the U.S. military presence in the country.

As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe.

Park rangers are our most trusted federal employees, and national parks are America’s gift to the world… but the new Trump regime is choking them, depriving them of the personnel and resources they need.

Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Stephen Miran revealed that Washington’s strategy is to use tariffs to force countries to pay the USA tribute to maintain its global financial and military empire. This is the idea behind the so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord”.

It is important for an intellectual position not only to be right but to be right for the right reasons; and the near-universal condemnation of Donald Trump’s aggressive imposition of tariffs, though right, is right for the wrong reasons.

Where is all this going? Well, it means a slump in production in the U.S. and most major economies; and it means a revival of inflation, particularly in the U.S. This is madness, no? Well, as I said last February when all this kicked off, there is method in this madness.

CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.