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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran's Uranium  —  The president hasn't made a decision, U.S. officials said, as he considers the risk to U.S. troops  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran …
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Financial Times:
Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’  —  US president tells the FT he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations continue  —  Donald Trump has said he wants to “take the oil in Iran” and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island, as the US sends thousands of troops to the Middle East.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Says Iran Agreed to Allow 20 More Ships of Oil Through Strait of Hormuz  —  The president, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, cast the permission as a “sign of respect.”  He also asserted that the United States had already achieved “regime change” in Iran.
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Trump's Iran war is holding him hostage  —  If there is any consistency to Trump's policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences  —  Donald Trump has lost his Iran war.  He is the Iranian hostage.
Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
Trump Claims ‘Regime Change’ in Iran Is Already Complete
Discussion: The Spectator
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Trump says U.S. will destroy Iran's oil wells, Kharg Island without deal to ‘immediately’ reopen Hormuz Strait
Politico:
Trump's dual-track duel
New York Times:
U.S. Special Operations Forces Sent to Mideast as Trump Weighs Next Move
Discussion: CBS News, The Dispatch and NewsMax.com
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage  —  When Pete Hegseth talks to God, he asks the Almighty to help him kill people—as violently and ruthlessly as possible.  —  In a potential violation of the separation of church and state, Hegseth has ordered monthly prayer meetings …
Discussion: The Nation, Mother Jones and The Hill
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship  —  The administration builds its arguments on an 1800s campaign, led in part by a Confederate officer, that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.  —  Alexander Porter Morse …
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars
Peter Sullivan / Axios:
GOP weighs health care moves to pay for Iran war  —  Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. … - “There's other items we're looking at right now …
Discussion: New Republic
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13  —  CONNECTING THE DOTS  —  More information given by the woman has been backed up.  —  A new investigation has backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13, according to a report.
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ☀️ Subscribe to PN ☀️  —  Democrats steadfastly refuse to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) without a series of minimal reforms.
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Paul Krugman:
Pete Hegseth Believes in the Lethality Fairy  —  A month into the war, and now they're talking about pointless ground action and/or war crimes.  —  TRANSCRIPT  —  Pete Hegseth believes in the lethality fairy, and that's a very bad thing.  Hi, Paul Krugman here.
Emma Janssen / American Prospect:
When ICE Blows Through Rural America  —  This article appears in the April 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine.  Read more from the issue.  —  ALBERT LEA, MINNESOTA - It's afternoon and I'm riding shotgun in Theron Gjersvik's pickup, patrolling the town to look for any sign of ICE.
Politico:
Poll: The battle for MAHA that could sway the midterms … Republicans hope the Make America Healthy Again movement becomes a permanent fixture of a big GOP tent.  But the party can't count on its support heading into midterm elections this November.  —  New results from The POLITICO Poll show …
Yonatan Touval / New York Times:
Is It 1914 in America?  —  Four weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, one conclusion is already difficult to avoid.  Our leaders preside over an extraordinary machinery of destruction, but they remain strikingly obtuse about human beings — about their pride, shame, convictions and historical memory.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Andrew Perez / Zeteo:
First Draft: Are These Trump's Worst Poll Numbers... Ever?  —  EXCLUSIVE: A new poll shared with Zeteo shows Trump's approval rating falling to 33%, and widespread opposition to the war in Iran.  Plus, AOC is hitting back against her critics on the left. … Good morning!  Andrew here.
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
The Trump-voting pastor Democrats think could cost them a chance at a Nebraska Senate seat  —  Congressional news Donald Trump Primary elections Senate election  —  In Nebraska's Senate race, a Trump-supporting, anti-abortion pastor is running as a Democrat.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Kohler / ProPublica:
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon.  The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.  —  Reporting Highlights  — Another Trump Pardon: Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President Donald Trump pardoned him just three months into a three-year prison term.
New York Times:
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows  —  The Pentagon used missiles untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck civilian sites near a military compound on Feb. 28, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts.
Discussion: New Republic and Mediaite
Paul Krugman:
Trump's America and the Axis of Autocracy  —  Do you remember the “Axis of Evil”?  In 2002 George W. Bush introduced this phrase as the opening salvo in his campaign to build support for military action against Iraq and possibly Iran and North Korea — regimes that, in fact, had nothing to do with 9/11.
David Gilbert / Wired:
This Is How Trump Is Already Threatening the Midterms  —  WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year's midterm elections.  —  President Donald Trump's rhetorical war on elections has seemed to only get more serious with time.
Kathryn Palmer / USA Today:
Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment,’ need new leaders  —  Sen. Cory Booker in a new interview said the Democratic Party has “failed this moment,” urging the left to support new leadership to temper the nation's deep divides.  —  Speaking to NBC News' “Meet the Press” …
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José Olivares / The Guardian:   Cory Booker says Democrats have ‘failed this moment’ and calls for new leaders
Charlotte Kramon / Associated Press:
Could a Democrat really replace Marjorie Taylor Greene?  This retired Army general is trying  —  During almost three decades of living in Georgia's conservative northwest corner, Kimberly Seals got used to keeping her liberal opinions to herself.  She suspected there were others who felt the same way …
New York Times:
They've Been Accused of Running a ‘Covert’ Operation in Greenland.  It's No Secret.  —  Members of President Trump's circle, working in plain sight, have caught the eye of Denmark's intelligence services for trying to make friends and cut deals on the Danish territory.
 
 
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