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3 weeks ago | 
usnews.com | Jay Parini |Tucker Carlson |Wil Del Pilar |Albert Hunt
I’m about to retire from Middlebury College in Vermont after 50 years in the classroom. For me, this is a bittersweet moment. What adds “bitter” to the “sweetness” is that free speech is under attack on college campuses, just at the moment that I am leaving.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Conor Fitzpatrick |Albert Hunt |Cameron Barr
Less than a month after extolling the importance of free speech to our European allies, the Trump administration is betraying those principles at home. Currently, the government is attempting to deport Mahmoud Khalil – a permanent U.S. resident and former Columbia University student – not because he committed a crime, but because the current administration dislikes his speech about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Albert Hunt |Cameron Barr |Rick Wilson
A veil of fear shrouds Washington as a power-hungry Republican issues one threat after another. He's a textbook bully. He not only lies – he repeats big lies that become truths to his frightened listeners. With the FBI as an ally, he intimidates his own colleagues, who keep their concerns to themselves, knowing his wrath could be lethal to their political futures. He assails the press and manipulates the media with the ease of a puppet master.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Albert Hunt |Cameron Barr |Rick Wilson
A veil of fear shrouds Washington as a power-hungry Republican issues one threat after another. He's a textbook bully. He not only lies – he repeats big lies that become truths to his frightened listeners. With the FBI as an ally, he intimidates his own colleagues, who keep their concerns to themselves, knowing his wrath could be lethal to their political futures. He assails the press and manipulates the media with the ease of a puppet master.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Cameron Barr |Albert Hunt
Soon after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he assured its editors and reporters – myself included – that he would give us the freedom to do our jobs and “follow the story” without interference from him.
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2 months ago | 
usnews.com | Albert Hunt |John Mac Ghlionn
Politics, like fashion, has its trends. “Alternative facts” was the term coined during President Donald Trump’s first term by his then-senior advisor Kellyanne Conway as a euphemism for lies promoted by the government. Now Trump is back in the White House, and government disinformation is back in style, this time as the guiding philosophy of his newly weaponized Justice Department.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
usnews.com | Albert Hunt |Jill Wine-Banks
Looking back at a half-century of failed Cabinet appointees, it turns out that Ted Sorensen, John Tower, Zoë Baird, Kimba Wood, Linda Chavez, Tom Daschle and many others were simply born too soon. Nominated for top positions by Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
usnews.com | Stacy Schneider |Albert Hunt
When I was a contestant on Trump’s TV show, “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump always talked about winners and losers. But I never expected him to get a win as big as he did today – escaping any punishment after a jury convicted him on 34 felony counts. The president-elect didn’t even get a fine? Trump truly is Teflon Don. At a sentencing hearing with Trump appearing virtually on a video link, Judge Juan M. Merchan gave Trump an unconditional discharge on Jan.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
usnews.com | Albert Hunt |Ryan Bourne |Alex Nowrasteh |Joyce White Vance
It’s the start of a new year, so it’s time for political predictions. I’m placing my bets for 2025 on the return to the political stage of two of President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite things: chaos and rancor. Those are his trademarks, and they will shape both the successes and failures of his second term. This time, I expect Trump to be more confrontational and vengeful, and also more willing to bend not just the rules but also the law.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
usnews.com | Cecelia Smith Schoenwalder |Alan Kronenberg |Albert Hunt
President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t lost his ability to shock after nearly a decade in national politics. Lawmakers critical of the president-elect and much of the media are as up in arms about his top picks for his new administration as they were about his unorthodox message when he first descended the Trump Tower escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015. The uproar doesn’t mean that his picks are misguided – to me, it underscores the logic of Trump’s choices.
