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Will Trump Convince the Supreme Court to Embrace an Expansive Unitary Executive Theory and Grab More Power?
The president is counting on that to get away with taking over independent agencies and installing loyalists to advance his crooked plans
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Peter M. Shane
Without Draconian Action Against American Citizens, Trump’s Crackdown on the Undocumented Cannot Succeed
To get immigrants, we will need a police state that respects the rights of no one
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Shikha Dalmia
13
Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Even Let You Drink Your Way Through these Tough Times
Exotic cocktail ingredients are about to become pricier or disappear from the market altogether
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Jacob Grier
7
Trump Targets His Own Aides for Speaking Out Against His Stolen Election Lie: An Executive Watch Roundup
Our mid-April selection of the president's latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law
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Robert Tracinski
2
Trumponomics Could Bring Far Worse than Inflation
Its combination of tariffs, fiscal profligacy, and easy money has the makings of a bigly economic crash
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Thomas Firey
2
How DOGE Thugs Enlisted the Police to Takeover a Private Building Belonging to an Independent Agency
Musk and his minions are perverting neutral law enforcement whose job is to protect, not violate, the rights and property of organizations
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Steve Chapman
5
Trump’s Policy of Shipping Innocents to the Salvadoran Gulag Shows Utter Contempt for Not Just the Constitution but Law Itself
His repudiation of due process, civil rights, and basic rules of justice means there is no check on who he can disappear next, citizen or noncitizen
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Andy Craig
27
Trump’s Personalist Style in Politics: A Video Roundup
It is spreading in every policy area at home and abroad
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Landry Ayres
2
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Wrongful Deportation and Imprisonment Reveals the Horrors of Trump's Authoritarianism
Though the Supreme Court handed the administration a defeat, the fight to bring him home should mobilize a broader resistance
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Robert Tracinski
6
The Free Press' Passage Into the Dark Side
The publication has lost its way and is radicalizing the more sophisticated right
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Matt Johnson
112
This Administration's Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy
Congress needs to take back the powers it has ceded to prevent presidents from starting trade wars
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Emily Chamlee-Wright
27
The World Shouldn't Ignore that Hamas Terrorizes Innocents in Gaza, Too
Lumping every Gazan with this brutal outfit is morally wrong and is leading to catastrophe
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
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Ahmed Alrayyis
16
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