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This is a time of fear and worry in the nonprofit world. The Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to reduce federal grant funding to nonprofit groups. It has largely shut off foreign aid. It briefly froze all outgoing grants. Now, even though that broad freeze has been lifted, the White House says it is…
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Javier comes across as bewildered by the changes in his wife. He is grieving, he says, the loss of the woman he married, starting with her physical self. “I used to love feeling her body, her big body, next to me in bed, the softness of it. The extra tummy and extra booty was comforting…
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The Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the United States, leaving the population vulnerable to potential deportation in the coming months, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times. The move signals that President Trump plans to continue a crackdown on the program that…
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There are many reasons to regret Trump’s latest experiment with tariffs, but let’s take prices and migration. Source link
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President Trump is moving forward with extensive tariffs on America’s closest trading partners. Beginning Tuesday, companies bringing products into the United States from Canada and Mexico will pay a 25 percent tariff; importers bringing products in from China will pay an additional 10 percent on top of existing levies. The president has insisted that these…
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.” The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific…
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Soft power is out. Hard power is in. Since returning to the White House, President Trump has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain, his way to foreign policy goals. With counterparts from Asia, the Middle East and North and South America, Mr. Trump has shown a willingness to use American power in a…
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Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah, had not yet been sworn in for his first term nor opened his mouth to say much of anything in public when he found himself under attack by President Trump’s most fervent supporters for the alleged sin of being insufficiently loyal. “I’m tired of RINO Republicans running everything,” Charlie…
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Many Americans say they do not believe the Democratic Party is focused on the economic issues that matter most to them and is instead placing too much emphasis on social issues that they consider less urgent. Asked to identify the Democratic Party’s most important priorities, Americans most often listed abortion, L.G.B.T.Q. rights and climate change,…
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As Democrats face the reality of President Trump’s second term, they share a fundamental belief: This moment calls for an inspirational message from their party. They just cannot decide what, exactly, that should be. In private meetings and at public events, elected Democrats appear leaderless, rudderless and divided. They disagree over how often and how…