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During Donald Trump’s first stint as president, the political scientist Daniel Drezner maintained a very long thread on the site formerly known as Twitter.
During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump endorsed a novel idea: Foreign students who graduated from college in the United States would automatically get a green card, instead of having to scramble for a new visa or leave the country entirely. “They go back to India; they go back to China,” he told the tech-plutocrat hosts of the All-In Podcast in June.
Technologists currently wield a level of political influence that was recently considered unthinkable. While Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slashes public services, Jeff Bezos takes celebrities to space on Blue Origin and the CEOs of AI companies speak openly of radically transforming society. As a result, there has never been a better moment to understand the ideas that animate these leaders’ particular vision of the future.
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National Parks Service worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean the ear of the statue at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987.Gary Hershorn / Getty
Maintenance workers clean a statue in Central Park, in New York City, in 2016.Anton Vaganov / Reuters
A municipal worker scrubs a statue of the Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2023.
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On this episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with a Memorial Day message about corruption and extortion in the Trump White House, including revelations about meme-coin pay-to-play schemes and foreign-financed golf courses.
Then David is joined by his Atlantic colleague George Packer to discuss Packer’s new profile of Vice President J. D. Vance.
We speak with Robert Weissman of Public Citizen about Donald Trump’s various conflicts of interest after Trump hosted a private dinner at his Virginia golf club for the 220 top buyers of his $TRUMP cryptocurrency. The Trump family has also announced it is expanding its holdings in cryptocurrencies, with the Trump tech startup set to raise $2.5 billion to invest in bitcoin. “There’s millions of losers for every few winners in the crypto game.
The Trump administration has reached a deal with the aerospace giant Boeing that will allow the company to pay $1.1 billion to avoid criminal prosecution for two deadly crashes of the company’s 737 MAX jet in 2018 and 2019, which together killed 346 people. Under the non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, Boeing would pay fines and fund safety improvements while providing an additional $445 million for crash victims’ families, among other measures.
We speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa after she got extraordinary access to an ICE detention center in Colorado, where she interviewed the immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra. The undocumented mother of four was arrested by federal agents in Denver in March after she successfully fought multiple deportation efforts since 2009, including when she took sanctuary in a Denver church with her children in 2017.
Trump’s policies have made travel feel incredibly fraught. We talked to some lawyers about what to expect.
The loss of the CDC’s drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on children’s safety.
The commission led by the health secretary says physicians often have the wrong prescription for America’s ills.
The Make America Healthy Again Commission that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leads will release a strategy to combat chronic disease by summer’s end.
President Donald Trump has paid tribute to fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
The Waves also discusses the Riverside Church controversy and the case of Sarah Milov.
What we say matters, especially depending on whom we say it to.
The Waves also discusses the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble.
The General Services Administration, which oversees government contracting, is leading a review of more than 20,000 consulting agreements for what is “non-essential.
The crowded contest in the Garden State shows how hard it is to address pocketbook issues.
Earlier, Buffett warned Saturday about the dire global consequences of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Trump has blamed shaky economic numbers on his predecessor.
Following its latest round of focus groups, Navigator Research is urging Democrats to proactively push their own economic policies.
Good news for anyone who hasn’t yet had the opportunity to shower money on President Donald Trump’s private companies: Trump Media & Technology Group is going to raise $2.5 billion to invest in bitcoin, giving big-money investors another chance to buy influence.
Announcing the investment, TMTG, the parent company of Truth Social, filed a report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stating that it already has subscription agreements from about 50 institutional investors.
A cartoon by Clay Jones.
King Charles III voiced his royal support for our neighbor to the north on Tuesday, delivering a none-too-subtle dig at U.S. President Donald Trump while addressing the Canadian Parliament’s opening session and shading Trump’s fractious foreign trade policies.
“Today, Canada faces another critical moment.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t want people to take medical advice from him—unless he is telling specific groups of people to stop getting vaccinated.
The Health and Human Services secretary said in a video posted to X Tuesday that he was removing the COVID-19 vaccine from the recommendation list for children and healthy pregnant women.
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.
Trump’s waging a war on fridges—and voters hate it
Not only is food getting more expensive, but it may also get less safe to eat.
The FTC is being weaponized for Elon Musk—and it won’t stop there
Because an infomercial for Tesla on the White House lawn wasn’t enough.
