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2024年11月20日 · As President-elect Donald Trump rolls out his controversial Cabinet picks, he has demanded the Republican-led Senate take extended breaks to allow him to make recess appointments rather than subject his nominees to an extensive public vetting process and upper chamber approval. Trump’s demand not only tests congressional Republicans’ willingness to uphold checks and balances over bending ...

2021年10月20日 · The term “racism” must be understood within the context of an anti-Black American polity.

2024年11月22日 · Trump plans to use the military to enact the mass deportation of immigrants. As a veteran, I know orders can be refused.

2024年10月28日 · Over 1,000 authors and literary industry workers have signed a letter vowing to boycott any Israeli literary institutions that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine, in an effort that organizers say is the largest cultural boycott of Israel in history. In the open letter, signatories say they “cannot in good conscience” work with Israeli institutions that ...

2021年11月30日 · A new book examining the Trump administration’s financial conflicts of interest showcases the alarming amount of money Trump’s companies made while he was in the White House — including hundreds of millions of dollars that his businesses received from taxpayers. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston details the full extent of Trump’s ill-gotten gains from 2017 to 2021 in ...

2024年12月21日 · Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Tuesday against Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. While Mangione already faced second-degree murder and weapons charges, the unsealed indictment reveals an escalation: New York prosecutors have charged Mangione with first-degree murder “in furtherance of terrorism.” Bragg ...

2024年11月21日 · On Wednesday, less than a fifth of the Senate voted to block weapons sales to Israel in a key vote orchestrated by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) that will be remembered for decades to come as a show of U.S. lawmakers’ deep complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Senators overwhelmingly rejected the resolutions, with around 79 voting against blocking the sales of tank rounds; 78 against ...

2024年12月25日 · Sanctuary policies do throw a wrench into the federal immigration enforcement system, but they also have limitations.

2024年12月13日 · President-elect Donald Trump is backtracking on a major campaign promise, stating in a recent interview that he cannot guarantee that he will be able to drive down grocery prices after all. In an interview with Time magazine following his being named “Person of the Year,” Trump was asked by the publication whether he still believed that his policies would be able to lower costs for ...