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Washington Cut the Budget. They Paid With Their Bodies.
In Nepal, former HIV outreach workers are now selling sex on the same highway where they once tried to keep people alive.
THE WAR ON JUDGMENT
The new authoritarian project isn’t satisfied with winning arguments. It wants to replace professional judgment with obedience.
CTRL+F IS NOT GOVERNMENT
Government requires judgment. A keyword search isn’t judgment.
PARDONS FOR SALE
Trump may not be taking the money himself. That does not make the market growing around his pardon power any less corrupting.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE REFEREES STOP RESPECTING EACH OTHER?
A Hawaii justice says his state’s constitution takes no instruction from the Roberts Court. What the hell happens when the courts stop trusting each…
HALF THE PRESS IS HOUSEBROKEN. THE OTHER HALF IS FERAL.
One side is scared to death of appearing biased. The other discovered that bias, rage, and humiliation are easier to sell than journalism.
TRUMP CAN’T GET CONGRESS TO PASS HIS ELECTION LAW. SO DHS IS PRESSURING THE STATES.
The SAVE America Act remains stalled in the Senate. The administration is now trying to build parts of it through federal databases, grant conditions…
TRUMP WENT BACK TO 2020. THE REAL TARGET WAS 2026.
The president’s primetime address offered old suspicions, heavily redacted intelligence, and a familiar promise that the smoking gun was finally here…
THE BIG NEWS IS THE PRETEXT
Trump may have real intelligence to show us tonight. The trick will be convincing America that a vulnerability is a stolen election.
MEXICO IS COMING AT ICE FROM EVERY DIRECTION
After Mexican citizens died in custody and during enforcement operations, Mexico opened multiple routes around a federal system that cannot be trusted…
TRUMP DOESN’T WANT SOVEREIGNTY. HE WANTS IMMUNITY.
The administration says it is protecting Americans from an illegitimate international court. What it really wants is a world where the United States and…
THEY FINALLY SHOWED US MITCH McCONNELL
The photograph answers the ugliest question. It doesn’t explain why Americans had to spend four weeks guessing about a sitting senator’s condition.
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