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Can Donald Trump Police the United States?

Cristian Farias The New Yorker
In a trial over the legality of the President’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, there may be a definitive answer to where his power ends.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

Clint Smith The Atlantic
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

Sunday Science: Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

Mark Blyth, Daniel Driscoll Project Syndicate
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to ensure that fossil fuels remain dominant in the energy mix of the twenty-first century. If it succeeds, the short-term returns to the US will be huge; but the long-term damage to the planet will

From Mourning To Rage to Transformation

Sarah Jaffe Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Grief at its start is a kind of anti-desire; it also clears space for new kinds of wants, understandings of what we wanted before. It made space for Tortuguita’s parents to understand their decision to climb a tree to prevent it from being cut down.

Weird Origins of the Right’s Hatred of the Smithsonian

Jason Colavito The New Republic
The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the institution began long ago—with the bones of Bible giants.