In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired on Sunday evening, President Donald Trump admitted that Republicans’ massive defeats in the midterm elections resulted from widespread frustration with the war on Iran, as well as his immigration policies. Reiterating that he “was not on the ballot” — as if to suggest that support would have been higher for him personally — Trump said that Americans…
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Following major wins by Democrats in last week’s midterm elections, four higher-level Department of Justice (DOJ) officials have resigned from office, including Harmeet Dhillon, who had served as assistant attorney general overseeing the department’s Civil Rights Division. Dhillon, who was once a personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, is the first significant post-midterm resignation…
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On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on birthright citizenship, just over a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a previous order he made on the issue was unconstitutional. The new orders are narrower than that previous one, which was signed in the first week of his second term in office. Several legal experts have already opined that the new orders…
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There is a certain symmetry to what we have experienced over the past decade of collapsing national consensus and far right radicalization. In cities and small towns around the country, people are watching as their friendships break down along lines of political or moral agreement, and as the shadow of white nationalism towers over even the most seemingly idyllic environments.
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The Trump administration’s drive to turn the machinery of counterterrorism against left-wing movements worldwide kicked into a higher gear this month surrounding its convening of an international “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.” On July 16, 2026, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stood before representatives of over 60 nations assembled for the global summit…
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Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was at home in Georgia with his family on July 9 when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents came to arrest him. Sonimar Maria, Arenas-Silva’s sister, said her family implored the agents not to take the 45-year-old Venezuelan, mentioning his medical needs, but ICE did not listen to their pleas. Flanked by progressive House Democrats and speaking in Spanish…
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