Category Archives: Politics

The New York Times – Saturday, February 22, 2025

Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants

The move would be a drastic escalation by the White House to militarize immigration enforcement.

F.D.A. Firings Decimated Teams Reviewing A.I. and Food Safety

Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.

Russia Talks Peace While Troops Threaten New Region in Ukraine

Moscow’s forces are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a province they have never invaded. If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.

Fate of Bibas Family Recalls Trauma of Oct. 7, Renewing Fears for Gaza Truce

Hamas said it had returned the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two sons. The Israeli military announced that the boys were murdered in Gaza and that Ms. Bibas’s body was that of someone else.

Reason Magazine ————April 2025 Preview

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    REASON MAGAZINE (February 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads’…

    Trump’s Dramatic Crossroads

    The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward. Stephanie Slade

    How To Get Rid of a Tenured Professor

    “Officially, it was a voluntary departure. But I sure felt like I’d been pushed out.” Roger Pielke Jr.

    The American Right Is Abandoning Mises

    The Austrian economist’s principled thought once served as a check on the intellectual right. Brian Doherty

    Harper’s Magazine – March 2025 Preview

    Harper’s Magazine (February 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Round Two – Trump’s Futile War Against The Deep State; Listening for the Future of Music; RAchel Cusk on Marin Amis and The Softer Side of American Conspiracy Theories…

    Rage Against the Machine

    Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy by Andrew Cockburn

    New World Symphonies

    Listening for the future of music by Matthew Sherrill

    The New York Times – Friday, February 14, 2025

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    Order to Drop Adams Case Prompts Resignations in New York and Washington

    The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District and five officials with the federal public integrity unit quit after the Justice Department ordered charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.

    Trump Says He’ll Rework Global Trading Relations With ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs

    The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.

    Senate Confirms Kennedy, a Prominent Vaccine Skeptic, as Health Secretary

    The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.

    ‘Risk of a Collision and Loss of Life’: D.C. Crash Warnings Were Years in the Making

    Concerns that a deadly collision could occur at Reagan National Airport had long been building. But attempts to draw attention to potentially dangerous conditions sometimes went unheeded.

    The Economist Magazine – February 15, 2025 Preview

    THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Battle for the Pentagon‘ – Can Donald Trump remake American defense?

    Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?

    America’s security depends upon their success

    After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong

    Europe has a chance to catch up, whereas America should ease up

    Countering China’s diplomatic coup

    China has turned much of the global south against Taiwan. That could be laying the ground for forced unification

    Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?

    He is on track to win the election, but to fix Europe he will have to fix his country first

    The Guardian Weekly – February 14, 2025 Preview

    THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (February 13, 2025): The latest issue features The Orbánisation of America…

    We’re just over three weeks into the second Donald Trump administration, and the pace of events both inside and outside the US has been dizzying and unprecedented.

    Many of us have been alarmed by Trump’s shocking pronouncements on the Israel-Gaza war, trade tariffs and territorial claims on Greenland and Panama. But inside America, an equally startling transformation has been taking place.

    Aided by the tech billionaire Elon Musk, Trump has moved swiftly to fire critics, reward allies, punish media, gut the federal government and exploit presidential immunity. Yet much of the blueprint comes not from Trump’s own policy team, but from a power-consolidation playbook established over the past decade by the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán.

    The New York Times – Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

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    Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations

    Among the topics the leaders discussed in their first confirmed conversation of President Trump’s second term was ending the war in Ukraine, he said.

    The Fiercest Fighting of the Ukraine War May Be in Russia

    The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a sliver of Russian land. Trapped civilians fear catastrophe.

    Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up

    Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

    Many Groups Promised Federal Aid Still Have No Funds and No Answers

    Judicial rulings have unfrozen some grants awaited by nonprofits, states and companies, but the reprieve has been uneven and many fear the relief is only temporary.

    The New York Times – Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2025

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    Gaza Cease-Fire Imperiled as Netanyahu Threatens to Resume ‘Intense Fighting’

    The Israeli leader’s warning came after Hamas said it would indefinitely postpone the next round of hostage releases.

    Russia Releases U.S. Prisoner After Talks With Trump Envoy

    The Kremlin freed Marc Fogel, a teacher held for more than three years on drug charges, in a deal negotiated by Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy.

    Jordanian King Rebuffs Trump Proposal to Displace Palestinians in Gaza

    His pushback came after President Trump insisted Tuesday that the United States has the authority to “take” Gaza.

    ‘I Was Dying’: Salman Rushdie Testifies About Terrifying Stabbing Attack

    The author recounted in vivid testimony the moment when an attacker stabbed him about 15 times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

    The New York Times – Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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    White House Failed to Comply With Court Order, Judge Rules

    The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.

    Hamas Postpones Release of More Hostages ‘Until Further Notice’

    Stalling the next release of hostages from the Gaza Strip, scheduled for the coming weekend, raises new challenges for the already tenuous six-week truce and chances for a lasting end to the war.

    36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations

    The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.

    Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say

    Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.

    The New Yorker Magazine – February 17, 2025

    THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (February 10, 2025): The latest issue features Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred – The magazine celebrates its centenary.

    The Editorial Battles That Made The New Yorker

    The magazine has three golden rules: never write about writers, editors, or the magazine. On the occasion of our hundredth anniversary, we’re breaking them all. By Jill Lepore

    Onward and Upward

    Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became. By David Remnick

    The “Intactivists” Campaigning Against the Cut

    New York’s biggest foreskin fans take their anti-circumcision message to the streets. By Diego Lasarte