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Just when you thought you’d talked enough about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’s tattoos for one lifetime, this week Hegseth revealed a new one : a tattoo on his left bicep of the Arabic word…
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The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which…
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Although President Trump’s executive order on elections signed earlier this week is probably unconstitutional , it closely resembles the stalled SAVE Act , which requires voters to present a passport…
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Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
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Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE agents handcuffed and forced the permanent resident and recent graduate of Columbia…
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This adapted essay is based on excerpts from Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025), which are reprinted with permission from the author and…
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During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans will maintain access to medication abortions if he’s confirmed as the next commissioner…
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UPDATE 3/20/25: According to an AP report, President Trump will sign an executive order today formally directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the…
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Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “…
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On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former…
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