Trump is halfway to making America a police state  —  The president's refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point  —  At around noon on April 14 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government.  Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data  —  In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.

State Terror  —  Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.  —  This is the beginning …

Levin and Martinez express support for Harvard amid funding fight with Trump administration  —  University president Jonathan Levin '94 and Provost Jenny Martinez expressed support for Harvard after its president Alan Garber M.D. '83 — a Stanford Medicine professor emeritus …

Trump threatens to remove Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The proposal follows the Ivy League school's decision to defy a list of demands from the White House.  —  President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate Harvard University's tax-exempt status, following the Ivy League school's refusal …

JD Vance: My message to Europe America doesn't want a vassal continent  —  “It's not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.”  So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday, his first major interview with a European outlet since taking office as Vice President.

Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?  —  The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.  —  Meet The Authors … In multiple filings, the government has conceded that it wrongfully removed Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia …

Tariff carve-outs underscore weak US position in China trade war: ‘This is going to get really ugly’  —  With its electronics exceptions, the United States has demonstrated that it is more willing to bend than the Chinese.  —  The White House says it has the upper hand in its trade war with China.

The Vibe Shifts Against the Right  —  Alex Kaschuta's podcast, “Subversive,” used to be a node in the network between weird right-wing internet subcultures and mainstream conservatism.  She hosted men's rights activists and purveyors of “scientific” racism, neo-reactionary online personalities …

Inside Trump's Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations … At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty.  —  At the Mine Safety and Health Administration …

US Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away … The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated.

Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power  —  Greetings and welcome to this week's midair performance of the Carnival of Fools!  Like a prestige subscription-service drama, our story resumes from a potent cliff-hanger: Last week, Donald Trump had invoked the laws of cartoon physics …

Why President Trump isn't signing many laws … Trump and Republican congressional leaders often claim his new administration has been the most productive in recent memory.  —  Except when it comes to passing laws.  —  Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this point in his presidency …

China orders its airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets, report says  —  The Chinese government has told the country's domestic airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets as a trade war between the world's two largest economies escalates, Bloomberg News reports.

Cuomo, front-runner in the New York mayor's race, denied millions in matching funds  —  The former governor's campaign failed to file the proper paperwork to receive the tranche of cash.  —  NEW YORK — New York City's campaign finance regulators rejected mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo's request …

Kamala Harris for governor?  Poll shows how California voters feel about the idea.  —  California's Democratic voters cheer the potential of Harris for governor, but warning signs are lurking.  —  Political influencers in California are greeting Kamala Harris' potential bid for governor with a shrug …

As Trump pursues mass deportation, his businesses again seek foreign workers  —  While President Donald Trump and his administration reiterate the need to “hire American” and crack down on both documented and undocumented immigrants alike, his company is again seeking seasonal foreign workers …

US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine  —  The US has told Group of Seven allies it won't endorse a statement condemning Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine this year because it wants to keep negotiations with Moscow on track.  —  Russia fired two short-range …

DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs  —  The administration is pushing agencies to turn over information on where people work, study and live.  The data is normally protected from dissemination.

Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar...  No time to give it its due, what with the constitutional crisis, but we can't fully pass over Trump's wild assertion yesterday that Ukraine started the war with Russia: “You don't start a war against someone twenty times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”

Jeffries backs stock trading ban after Greene buys market dip  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday backed a stock trading ban for sitting members of Congress, after ripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for reportedly profiting off market fluctuations during President Trump's tariff roller-coaster.

Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship  —  Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont.  He has not been charged with a crime.  —  Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstrations …