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Trump’s War Against Jerome Powell Enters a Dark New Chapter

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Anger is mounting among Republicans after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell revealed on Sunday that the Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation into him, marking an extraordinary escalation in President Trump’s public efforts to coerce Powell into lowering interest rates. “If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively […]

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Climate Protesters Face Greater Risk of Crackdown Amid Rising Authoritarianism

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A new study found that vilifying protestors in public and through the media has been key to state repression tactics.

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Trump’s Second Term Dispels Any Notion of CEOs Saving Us From Climate Crisis

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Corporate actors have shed any pretense of climate action and now openly back Trump’s doubling down on fossil fuels.

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In Courting Saudi Arabia, Trump Emulates Mohammed Bin Salman’s Authoritarianism

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Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman are united by their shared ideology of censorship and state violence.

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The Art of Truth in an Age of Lies

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“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. “On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.” That, in Orwell’s view, was a lost understanding: clear to Victorian authors like Dickens; obscure to his contemporaries of the late 1930s, who were too coy or deluded to square “art for art’s saking in the ivory […]

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They’re Teachers, Nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump Administration Calls Them Antifa.

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This Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, at thousands of sites around the country, are expected to draw huge numbers of demonstrators fed up with the constitutional overreach and autocratic drift of President Donald Trump’s administration. But according to some of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, something more nefarious is at work. “This is part of […]

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He Studies Fascism. Is He Now Living Through It?

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On Saturday, October 4, Rutgers University professor Mark Bray was sitting in his living room watching the MLB playoffs when he received an email that would change his life. Bray, a historian and author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, had recently become the subject of an online campaign accusing him of “supporting […]

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Texas AG Announces Undercover Operations Into “Antifa,” Cites “Transgenderism”

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The move echoes a push by the Trump administration to weaponize counterterrorism tools against left-leaning groups.

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Judge Blocks Trump From Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon — for Now

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Gavin Newsom had challenged an order to send California troops, and warned that the US is on the “brink of martial law.”

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Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest

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Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.

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I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate.

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I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both.

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Authoritarian Wave in US Shows Democracy’s Fragility, South African Scholar Says

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The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids.

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