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David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan to remake the economy.  But he's not explaining it very well.  —  President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.”  But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed  —  The president sent a chilling warning to people pardoned by former President Joe Biden.  —  Donald Trump claimed late Sunday — in a middle-of-the-night rant on his Truth Social platform …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump says autopen use makes Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 panel “VOID”  —  President Trump claimed Monday that former President Biden's preemptive pardons to members of the House Jan. 6 select committee and others are “VOID” and “VACANT” because they were “done by Autopen.”
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says  —  The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.
Discussion: The Independent and masslive.com
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order
Tom Mooney / The Providence Journal:
Documents shed light on why RI doctor was detained, deported. What we know.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration  —  An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Schumer Postpones Book Tour Amid Backlash to Voting With Republicans  —  Many Democratic activists, desperate for their leaders to stand up to President Trump, have been staging protests outside of Senator Chuck Schumer's home and calling for his resignation.
Discussion: The Hill
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Justin Green / Axios:
Resistance backlash upends Chuck Schumer's book tour
Discussion: Bloomberg, Political Wire and NBC News
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights  —  The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply …
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Washington Post:
Trump sends more than 200 alleged gang members to prison in El Salvador
Arthur Allen / KFF Health News:
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants  —  National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand  —  Last week Mark Carney, having won the Liberal Party's leadership election, became Canada's Prime Minister.  And it looks possible that he may hold that position for a while.  Not long ago the Liberals seemed headed for an electoral wipeout, but they've seen an amazing surge in the polls:
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts … Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  The National Nuclear Safety Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The evil at your door  —  Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.
Christopher Jasper / Telegraph:
Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off  —  Latest development adds to a litany of build-quality issues with the electric pickup  —  Elon Musk's Tesla has been forced to halt sales of its electric Cybertruck pickup amid mounting concern about metal panels falling off the supposedly indestructible vehicles.
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal:
The Competition to Get Into Law School Is Brutal This Year  —  Applications are surging as students seek stability in a difficult job market  —  A weakening white-collar job market and a contentious political climate are fueling interest in law school, leading to one of the most competitive years …
Washington Post:
After CDC pick is abruptly yanked, worry over U.S. measles messaging remains  —  Medical experts and politicians question who will be chosen as the CDC's next leader amid a surge in measles cases and concerns over vaccine-preventable diseases.  —  March 17, 2025  —  The Fix  —  Analysis
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Washington Post:
Utah on path to end automatic mail ballots after wave of misinformation
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Cate Latimer / The Brown Daily Herald:
Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel  —  The announcement comes after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh.  —  One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents …
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE  —  Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency's ability to serve the public.  —  When Eleanor H., 66, called the Social Security Administration …
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story, Kiplinger and Fortune
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett warns of more uncertainty over tariffs … WATCH NOW  —  President Donald Trump's top economic aide on Monday warned of more economic uncertainty stemming from the United States' evolving tariff agenda.  —  “Absolutely, between now and April 2 …
Discussion: Business Insider
Phoebe Petrovic / ProPublica:
How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power  —  A draft lawsuit being floated to attorneys general in several states argues Congress must call a convention over the national debt.  But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating back to 1789.
Discussion: LifeSite
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA figures start chatter over Derek Chauvin pardon  —  Prominent supporters of President Trump — led by podcaster Ben Shapiro — are fueling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin, the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020.
Discussion: The Hill
ProPublica:
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup.  That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.  —  In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread  —  Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Schumer's Specter of a Shutdown  —  Not long after Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer engineered enough of his party's votes to smooth passage of the partisan Republican “Continuing Resolution” to avoid a government shutdown, he made sure that his rationale made it into a sympathetic piece in the New York Times.
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
The Battle for the Bros  —  Young men have gone maga.  Can the left win them back?
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
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Ray Zaccaro / Rolling Stone:
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Exclusive: Teachers increasingly worried about childhood hunger, survey finds
CBS News:
Johns Hopkins University says it's laying off 2,200 due to USAID funding cuts
Krisztina Than / Reuters:
Hungary's ruling party submits bill to ban Pride march
Discussion: Associated Press
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
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Joshua Keating / Vox:
Has Trump already killed NATO?
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Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
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Gloria Pazmino / CNN:
Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn't involved in protests on the night of her arrest
 

 
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