Opinion | These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful
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Opinion | These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power. The typical explanation is that he’s following and expanding a legal idea devised by conservatives during the Reagan administration, the unitary executive theory….

Charles Koch Says Many in the Country Are ‘Abandoning’ Its Principles
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Charles Koch Says Many in the Country Are ‘Abandoning’ Its Principles

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist and conservative megadonor, made a rare public appearance Thursday evening and called for libertarians to embrace their principles, in comments that seemed obliquely directed at a Republican Party taken over by President Trump. Mr. Koch was at one…

Opinion | There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab
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Opinion | There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines To be clear, some of his legal — or plausibly legal — policies also deserve opposition from liberals, moderates and conservatives alike. He has damaged America’s standing in the world, especially through his chaotic tariffs. He has made it easier for China and…

Cardinals Are Maneuvering Before Conclave To Elect Francis’ Successor
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Cardinals Are Maneuvering Before Conclave To Elect Francis’ Successor

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope. They have a seductively simple…

Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right
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Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Kaschuta is not alone; several people who once appeared to find transgressive right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Donald Trump’s administration put those ideas into practice. The writer Richard Hanania once said that he hated bespoke pronouns “more than…

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
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Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Follow live updates on the Trump administration. As he finished lunch in the private dining room outside the Oval Office on April 1, President Trump floated an astounding proposal: What if the government simply canceled every dollar of the nearly $9 billion promised…

Johnson Delays Budget Vote As G.O.P. Defectors Balk
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Johnson Delays Budget Vote As G.O.P. Defectors Balk

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday was forced to delay a vote on the Republican budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s domestic agenda, after conservatives balked at a plan that they said would add too much to the nation’s debt. In a dramatic scene…

The House Republicans Holding Out Against Trump’s Budget and Tax Cut Plan
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The House Republicans Holding Out Against Trump’s Budget and Tax Cut Plan

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Representative Eric Burlison, a two-term congressman from Missouri’s Ozarks, is unequivocal about his support for President Trump. “I love the president,” he said this week as he walked through the Capitol. But Mr. Burlison is also one of about a dozen hard-line conservative…

Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump
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Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In his attacks on law firms, universities and other American institutions, President Trump is relying on an illusion. The illusion is that the institutions are powerless to fight back and that they face a choice between principle and survival. These institutions do not…

Democrats Show a Pulse: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections
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Democrats Show a Pulse: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Elon Musk’s money can buy him love from Republicans, but not, it turns out, a Wisconsin Supreme Court election. A campaign awash in more than $25 million in spending by the world’s richest man and groups tied to him ended up much like…