U.S. trade partners retaliate for Trump’s tariffs, Trump’s FBI purge meets pushback, and a new era of American unseriousness on the global stage takes hold
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The Trump Purge
A new shock-wave of firings by the Trump administration, Day One of Trump’s new tariffs, and the state of the most endangered Trump cabinet nominations
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Retribution and National Security in the New Trump Era
The consequences of President Trump’s ongoing political retribution for America’s national security with Ambassador John Bolton and Rep. Bennie Thompson, and how wealth and power in the new Trump era is leading us down a path towards American oligarchy
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The Reshaping of Justice for a New Trump Era
How Donald Trump is reshaping justice in a new term, why we can’t assume his birthright citizenship gambit is doomed to fail, and what holding the line looks like now that he’s in office
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Trump’s Cabinet, the “tech-industrial complex,” and why the 1930s classic “The Grapes of Wrath” is still being banned
Former CIA Director John Brennan weighs in on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to serve as Director of National Intelligence, Nobel Prize-winner Maria Ressa shares crucial lessons for reporting on a government that’s hostile to the free press, and why this week’s selection for the Velshi Banned Book Club, John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is still so relevant to American life and politics that it’s still being banned.
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