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President Trump used an Easter lunch to talk about how we can’t take care of kids or sick people—we can only take care of the U.S. military. His message for his base - Listen here.

Based on oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems poised to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Six justices, three Republicans, scoffed at his efforts to overrule birthright citizenship rights spelled out in the 14th Amendment.

Republicans don't need to gut the social safety net again in order to pass Trump's latest series of priorities. But that's not what they'll tell you. GOP will attempt to push SAVE America Act and war funding into new Reconciliation Bill.

Legal viability aside, the new law reveals a deeper question, reflecting a perverse dissonance in Israeli society: Why are Jewish terrorists spared the noose while Arab ones are hanged?

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Freedom of speech doesn’t count for much if workers have to worry about being fired just for expressing a point of view that their boss doesn’t like.

Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.

Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

The abolitionist vision of national and egalitarian citizenship that the radical Republicans embedded into the Constitution was forged in direct opposition to the notion that citizenship is a privilege rather than a natural right bestowed by birth.

The DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in Trump's first six months, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.