Author name: Inae Oh

President Trump’s vehement refusal to make full SNAP benefits available to the nearly 42 million Americans who rely on the food aid program scored a temporary win at the Supreme Court, after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Friday temporarily allowed the federal government to continue withholding $4 billion in SNAP funding. The late-night order came […]

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As the government shutdown slouches toward a historic milestone for the longest in US history, the high-stakes battle over SNAP—the country’s largest and most critical food aid program—once again devolved into chaos on Tuesday after the president issued his latest social media rant. “SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) […]

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After dramatic losses in federal court last week, the Trump administration on Monday agreed to tap an emergency pot of money to partially fund SNAP, the nation’s largest anti-hunger program. But the administration refused to use additional sources of funding that could provide full payments to SNAP beneficiaries in November. SNAP funding had lapsed on […]

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In the final stretch of New York’s mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo appeared to embrace the Islamophobic accusation that Zohran Mamdani—the socialist candidate who would be the city’s first Muslim mayor—would celebrate a hypothetical September 11-style terrorist attack. “God forbid, another 9/11. Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Cuomo said during an appearance on the […]

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Mass federal layoffs that could soon become permanent. Food aid programs facing imminent disaster. Mounting recession indicators in an already stalling economy. The effects of the government shutdown, now in its fourth week, are becoming more pronounced with each day. But while previous shutdowns saw late-night efforts at the White House to try and break […]

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Late Saturday, as “No Kings” protests across the country came to a close, President Donald Trump emerged with what appeared to be his official response to the resoundingly peaceful demonstrations opposing his presidency: He posted a video of himself, as king, manning a fighter jet as it released shit-laden sludge onto his detractors. The clip, […]

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After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat, perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the detail on Saturday, a key aspect of the emerging agreement announced by the Trump administration last week between the […]

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Should historians now and in the future need to identify a moment illustrating President Donald Trump’s unabashed attempts to politicize the Justice Department, they could easily look to the events of the past few days. Let’s start with Trump publicly calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to use the powers of the department to go […]

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In July, the Wall Street Journal reported on the existence of a birthday note from President Donald Trump to his one-time friend Jeffrey Epstein. The paper had claimed that the missive included a lewd image depicting the outline of a woman’s body and Trump’s signature, which was described as mimicking the appearance of pubic hair. […]

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