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Trump Uses a Former DOGE Staffer's Assault in Washington, D.C. as a Pretext to Militarily Commandeer the American Capital
Donald Trump used a late-night attack on a former DOGE employee as his pretext to take over the D.C.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Commerce Department Threatens to Seize Harvard’s Patents that it Claims the University Derived from Federally Funded Research
Donald Trump is abusing every tool of the vast power of the federal government in his attempt to make the universities personally subservient to him.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Wants to Tilt Congress His Way with Unconstitutional Do-Over of the Census
The Constitution mandates a census every 10 years to count all “persons” in the United States and assign representation in Congress.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Fires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Publishing a Report He Found Insufficiently Optimistic About the Impact…
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was notorious for firing officials—or sending them to the gulag—for delivering bad news about the failure of his policies.
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Robert Tracinski
The Trump Administration Forces Columbia University to Pay it $200 Million and Accept its Ideological Oversight in Order to Resume…
After threatening the arbitrary cutoff of federal funds for scientific research, Donald Trump has successfully forced Columbia University to relinquish…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Sues The Wall Street Journal for Daring to Report on His Lewd Birthday Card to Jeffrey Epstein
Facing a rebellion from his own supporters over the administration’s failure to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who died in…
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Robert Tracinski
CBS Cancels Stephen Colbert Ahead of its Parent Company's Takeover by a Trump-Friendly Owner
Paramount, the parent company of CBS, CBS News, and its flagship investigative reporting show 60 Minutes, has made a series of capitulations to Donald…
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Robert Tracinski
Secret Police and Secret Courts: The Trump Administration Withholds Names of Immigration Prosecutors, Taking a Great Leap Forward Toward a…
In a free society, the law is enforced out in the open, subject to public scrutiny.
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Robert Tracinski
The Administration's War on Civil Service Protections Is Continuing Unabated in a Bid to Stack Executive Agencies with Trump Puppets
One of the triumphs of late 19th-century politics was the reform of the civil service to eliminate the politicized “spoils system” and establish…
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Robert Tracinski
Paramount Shamelessly Signs Up to Toe the Administration's Line, Capitulating to Trump's Corrupt Shakedown
Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, has capitulated in a bogus lawsuit filed by Donald Trump, agreeing to pay a $16 million bribe to his…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Is Failing to Enforce Congress's Ban on TikTok, Claiming King-Like Powers to Suspend Laws He Does Not Like
Donald Trump’s refusal to enforce the TikTok ban turns out to be about an issue much bigger than what happens to TikTok.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Signs Off on Military Troops Acting as the Judge, Jury, and Deportation Squad to Eject Immigrants
Donald Trump sent National Guard troops into Los Angeles to suppress “riots.” If such a threat ever existed, it died down weeks ago—but the troops are…
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Robert Tracinski
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