Donald Trump’s attacks on environmental regulation and the administrative state are part of a right-wing class war — one that pits patriotic citizens against perceived liberal experts defending what’s left of the New Deal order.
Step by Step, MAGA Is normalizing repression and setting America up for tyranny. Will we wait, like so many before us, until the knock comes to our own door?
Leah Fabel and Oona Zenda, KFF Health News
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More than 5 million teenagers take care of older adults as part of their day, including nearly a third of high school students in at least one state. Their numbers may grow if Medicaid gets cuts.
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
The point here is not to replicate a particular historical episode, but rather to suggest the urgency of breaking with conventional thinking about what is permissible. Lethargy and pusillanimity got us into this mess in the first place.
Whether it is purging half of the staff at the U.S. Department of Education or telling teachers to stop teaching the hard parts of our history, the Trump administration is trying to unravel public education.
President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.
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