Author name: Noah Lanard

Former government officials rarely write good books. Whatever insights they may have acquired tend to be buried by self-justifying recriminations, personal loyalties, and the fear that unsolicited candor will prove disqualifying in some future administration. Tomorrow Is Yesterday, a new book by the veteran peace negotiators Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, is an exception. The […]

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On Tuesday, William G. Young—a federal district court judge in Massachusetts and a Reagan appointee—issued a decision filled with obvious contempt for the unconstitutional actions of the current president of the United States. The ruling comes in a case brought by academic associations seeking to block the Trump administration’s policy of targeting and arresting noncitizens […]

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A group of more than 60 Democratic legislators sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday that expresses “grave concerns” about ongoing removals to so-called “third countries” to which immigrants have no connection.  The legislators are requesting that the Trump administration provide “basic information” about the scope of the third country removal program, which […]

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Jordan Lasker, an X user who goes by the name Crémieux, recently made news by providing the New York Times with hacked data that showed New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his undergraduate application to Columbia University. While Lasker quickly celebrated his time in the […]

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On Wednesday, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared a propaganda poster on official accounts on X and Instagram. It featured Uncle Sam urging Americans to “Report All Foreign Invaders” by calling the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tipline. The image was first circulated by a white nationalist who has recently defended use […]

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On Wednesday, District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to provide the due process it denied to Venezuelans in March when it sent them to a Salvadoran megaprison. The order means that the roughly 140 men sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act—a rarely used […]

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