State and city officials in California are vowing to uphold protections for immigrants, even as President Trump threatens more action against their jurisdictions.
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Tuesday Briefing
Results from Canada’s election.
Continue readingTuesday Briefing: Canada’s Momentous Election
Plus, the poetry challenge.
Continue readingDetroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’
A rehearsal of “The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, was just a few days old this month when the tenor who plays Donald J. Trump began to sing. “They are animals! Monsters …
Continue readingKremlin Says Putin Ordered a 3-Day Cease-Fire in Ukraine for Next Month
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about the unexpected announcement.
Continue readingA Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution. He declared that his government would no longer treat U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants or children of lawful …
Continue readingTrump afirma que está negociando con China. China dice lo contrario
El presidente Trump dijo que EE. UU. se estaba “reuniendo con China” para discutir los aranceles, comentarios destinados a calmar la inquietud de los mercados financieros. Pero los funcionarios chinos afirman que no se han producido conversaciones.
Continue readingTrump Doesn’t Want to Govern
I think it’s obvious that neither President Trump nor his coterie of agents and apparatchiks has any practical interest in governing the nation. It’s one reason (among many) they are so eager to destroy the federal bureaucracy; in their minds, you …
Continue readingAmerica’s Tough Guy in Chief Is Making America Weak
Provoking your enemies, alienating your friends and actively sabotaging your own defenses is no one’s idea of a sound national security plan. And yet, this is the playbook that President Trump has apparently followed over the first 100 days of his …
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