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February 6, 2025

 

Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not.

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on "radical indoctrination" in schools.

By David W. Blight, Beth English, James Grossman

 

 

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"A Mortal, Existential Threat": Harry Litman on the DOJ Crisis

The New Republic’s new senior legal columnist talks with editor Michael Tomasky about how Donald Trump is wrecking the Justice Department.

By Michael Tomasky

 

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The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.

By Melissa Gira Grant

 

To Fight Trump, Democrats Must Embrace Gerrymandering

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will have to fight back.

By Matt Ford

 

Trump Roasted for Shocking This Top Aide With Ethnic Cleansing Plan

Donald Trump caught everyone, even his closest advisers, off guard with his plan for Gaza.

By Edith Olmsted 

 

RSVP Now: Navigating the Dark Road Ahead

On February 12, we are producing an important event to help you prepare for Trump 2.0. Livestreamed from Washington, D.C., it will gather influential political commentators determined to mitigate the imminent threats of a second Trump term, including Jared Bernstein, Pramila Jayapal, Jamie Raskin, Bennie Thompson, Olivia Troye, Mark Zaid, and more.

 

This event is produced in partnership with Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Rachel Carson Council.

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Trump Is Undermining U.S. Soft Power at a Delicate Time

Experts warn that Trump’s recent foreign policy decisions could signal to allies that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner.

By Grace Segers

 

I Visited Dozens of Civics Classrooms. The Right’s Attacks Are Wrong.

Virtually all of the teachers I met regard viewpoint neutrality as a sacred obligation. It’s Trump’s order that is relentlessly ideological.

By James Traub

 
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Trump Resurrects Dangerous Beef With 60 Minutes in Weird Midnight Rant

Donald Trump is still apparently not over Kamala Harris’s interview.

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

 

Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn

As the Treasury Department offers some new spin about Elon Musk’s takeover of payment systems and ousting of a top career official, Senator Ron Wyden tells us why this "reeks of a cover-up."

By Greg Sargent

 

Trump’s Scam on Tariffs Wrecked in Surprise Moment from Stephen Miller

As Miller reportedly makes a revealing private admission about the border, an expert on Latin America explains why this undermines Trump’s biggest claims about tariffs forcing Mexico to bend to his will.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

 

This Is So Much Worse Than Last Time

Why Democrats and the media are struggling to capture the insanity—and danger—of the new Trump administration.

By Alex Shephard

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