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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
How regime change happens in America
Trump is getting substantial pushback, both from the courts and from other pockets of civic life.
Republicans are just fine with Elon Musk gutting the government
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
Can anything satisfy the guests of The White Lotus?
If the president gets his way, the strong, not international lawyers, will write the rules.
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
The defense secretary is signaling a major shift.