
Conor Friedersdorf
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Conor Friedersdorf
The debate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs often focuses on whether they are prudent. Defenders insist that Trump’s tariffs will help make America great again and boost national security. Critics counter that they’ll wreck the economy. But the strongest argument against the tariffs is actually that they are unlawful. Neither the Constitution nor any statute authorizes Trump to impose what he ordered.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Conor Friedersdorf
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Why defend academic freedom even when the ideas in question are wrongheaded or harmful?
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1 month ago |
indybay.org | Lynda Carson |Conor Friedersdorf
ABC, Channel 7 station floods Bay Area sanctuary cities with anti-immigrant ads By Lynda Carson - May 7, 2026 Recently, the local ABC - Channel 7, TV broadcast station has been flooding the local Bay Area sanctuary city airwaves with anti-immigrant ads around the same time they air their local, and national news broadcasts with David Muir, that some are calling "racist." The anti-immigrant advertisements flooding the airwaves with threatening messages to round up the migrants, lock them up,...
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Conor Friedersdorf
As the Trump administration rounds up people it alleges to be illegal aliens and gang members, deports them to El Salvador, and pays to imprison them there without convicting them of any crime, constitutional challenges have focused on the Fifth Amendment; the administration appears to have deprived many deportees of liberty without due process.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Conor Friedersdorf
President Donald Trump sent the global economy into turmoil last week by imposing tariffs on all foreign goods arriving in the United States. Then he altered his own policy, announcing Wednesday that, excepting a 145 percent tax on goods from China and a 10 percent general tariff, he was pausing the new levies for 90 days.
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