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Trump's slush fund and the rule-of-law test
The judicial freeze on Trump's $1.8bn 'anti-weaponization' fund exposes a constitutional crisis hiding in plain sight — the president suing himself and winning taxpayer money.
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Abrego García case dismissed: due process wins a round
A US federal judge dismissed the criminal indictment against Kilmar Abrego García, the Salvadoran national wrongfully deported to a notorious prison, in a significant procedural rebuke.
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The DOJ settlement and the rule-of-law ratchet
The Justice Department's $1.8bn anti-weaponisation settlement and Trump family tax-audit immunity represent not aberrations but a systematic erosion of institutional independence.
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Trump arrives in Beijing for high-stakes summit
Trump's visit to a stronger, more assertive China tests whether transactional diplomacy can deliver on trade, Iran, and Taiwan without surrendering strategic ground.
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Trump's CEO army lands in Beijing
Seventeen American executives accompanying Trump to Beijing signals a transactional diplomacy that bypasses both the State Department and any coherent China strategy.
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Trump in Beijing, and the Iran oil leverage trap
The President plans to press Xi Jinping on Iranian oil purchases. The trip will succeed or fail on whether he understands what China is selling and what it is not.
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McMahon's hearing and the Education Department's quiet demolition
Linda McMahon's congressional testimony revealed an agency being dismantled faster than anyone has acknowledged — with consequences for civil rights enforcement and student lending that will outlast the current administration.
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Xi's Taiwan ultimatum, and the price of a summit
Trump's Beijing visit produced flattery and no deal — but Xi's explicit Taiwan warning signals that any US-China rapprochement now carries a steep and underappreciated cost.