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Trump Not Even Waiting To Get Into Office Before Threatening The First Amendment, Press Freedoms
During the campaign and after his win, President Elect Donald Trump has been remarkably consistent on his calls for curtailing the rights afforded to the American people and our news organizations by the First Amendment. Between threatening lawsuits...
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My interview with the former Spy who wrote the Trump-Russia Memos
When I broke the story in October, I spoke with him. Here's what he said.
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Religious Liberty is Only for Christians in Texas
Texas Republicans talk a lot about religious freedom, meanwhile GOP leaders impose their own beliefs about abortion and LGBT rights on everybody else. By David R. Brockman. (Nov. 1, 2016)
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Another Demand for Russian ‘Hacking’ Proof
MEMORANDUM FOR: President Barack Obama FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: A Key Issue That Still Needs to be Resolved. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Friday, a pall hangs over his upcoming presidency amid an unprecedentedly concerted campaign to delegitimize it. Unconfirmed accusations continue to swirl alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “Russian hacking” that helped put Mr. Trump in the White House.
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Almost Every Word Of John McCain's Response To Chelsea Manning's Sentence Commutation Is Flat Out Wrong
It's hardly a surprise that a bunch of people who have been fed a load of bullshit about what Chelsea Manning did years ago are now quite angry over President Obama's decision to commute Manning's sentence. But I don't think any...
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Trump becomes 45th President of the United States
Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States Friday during a time-honored inauguration ceremony that encapsulated the peaceful transfer of power that is a hallmark of American democracy.
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Supreme Court rejects Texas appeal over voter ID law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Texas seeking to revive the state's strict Republican-backed voter-identification requirements that a lower court found had a discriminatory effect on black and Hispanic people.
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Alternative facts, yes. Alternative cakes, no. The adventures of Trump's inauguration cake
There were a lot of weird things about Donald Trump’s inauguration but the weirdest of all was the cake. Why do you want the same cake as Obama?
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EPA Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources Say
It's unclear whether the freeze is temporary or indefinite.
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Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers
President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders to blame his nearly three-million popular vote loss on illegal ballots.
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Will Lessons Be Learned?
In 2016, disaffected voters brought about seismic shifts within the current world order, the effects of which will be felt for many years to come. The question now is will the political establishment learn from this upheaval or will it simply ask that the band play on?
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The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned
All are career foreign service officers who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Get ready for the next White House e-mail (and Twitter) scandal
An insecure phone, a press secretary posting his password, and private e-mail—really?
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Compromise doesn't work with our political opponents. When will we learn?
In Chelsea Manning’s first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama’s legacy is a warning against not being bold enough
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Trump's 1st Week Reshapes U.S. Relationship with Canada
In Donald Trump's first week as president he's already signed a dozen or so executive orders and memorandums that will fundamentally change relations with his nearest neighbours for years to come.
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Sir Mo Farah tells family 'Daddy might not be able to come home' after Trump travel ban
SIR MO FARAH has said he is deeply troubled by Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown which he fears will separate him from his family in the US. The four-time Olympic gold medal winner said: “On 1st January this year, Her Majesty The Queen made me a Knight of the Realm. On 27th January, President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.” The long-distance runner said he feared having to tell his children “Daddy may not be able to come home” because of the temporary ban on citizens from seven countries entering the US.
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COUP: Under cover of #muslimban, Bannon throws top general and spy off the National Security Council and installs himself in their stead
COUP: Under cover of #muslimban, Bannon throws top general and spy off the National Security Council and installs himself in their stead
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Acting Attorney General Orders Justice Dept. Not to Defend Refugee Ban
Sally Yates, the acting attorney general, wrote in a letter to department lawyers that she was concerned that the executive order might not be legal.
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How to Build an Autocracy
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.
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Trump fires acting attorney general who said travel ban was not lawful
Sally Yates had instructed justice department lawyers not to defend executive order, as Donald Trump lashes out at critics...
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