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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi
About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’
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August 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Opinion | We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong.
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August 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Opinion | You Are Contaminated
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August 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
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August 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Trump contorting justice department into his ‘personal weapon’, experts warn
Critics say DoJ has been ‘politicized like never before’ and the main job requirement is now ‘loyalty to Donald Trump’
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August 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders
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August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation
Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research
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August 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
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August 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump
International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya
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July 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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‘People have seen through him and he’s not welcome’: Scotland tees up for Trump visit
Protests planned but those who spent years opposing president’s golf courses worry about playing to his ego
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July 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
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July 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The Guardian view on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide | Editorial
Editorial: Condemnation is rightly growing. But until concrete action is taken, western allies will remain complicit with these horrifying crimes
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July 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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The nefarious message behind the DHS ‘manifest destiny’ painting: ‘four pillars of propaganda’
Amid sweeping immigration raids, the Department of Homeland Security posted art captioned: ‘Protect the Homeland.’ Experts say it perpetuates an American fantasy
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July 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
Rhiannon Giddens on “Omar,” Pulitzer-Winning Opera About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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The rise of Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policy
With time, events in Los Angeles of the past week may come to be seen as the anti-immigrant zealot’s ultimate revenge
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June 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society
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June 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Daniel Geary: Los Angeles is only the beginning. Trump is normalising military enforcement of law and order
Trump deliberately manufactured the crisis in LA for political reasons
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June 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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How would recent events in America appear if they happened elsewhere? | Moira Donegan
Imagining how the media would cover the troops in Los Angeles or the detention of a sitting senator is a useful exercise
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June 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Justine McCarthy: Humanity might yet prove the species that was too stupid and greedy to save itself
In Ireland, we call it “mé féinism” - but now it’s everywhere. Could people power save us?
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June 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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What is happening in Los Angeles is not law enforcement, it’s occupation
The tools and tactics of the federal response to the LA protests are taken from the US imperial playbook.
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June 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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American Idiot(s)
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American Idiot(s)
There is an explanation to the madness we are witnessing — and, once again, the conscience of the country, the Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, tells us exactly what we don’t want to hear.
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June 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
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June 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM