#us-politics
15 posts tagged us-politics.
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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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Gabbard resigns and the DNI revolving door
Tulsi Gabbard's departure as Director of National Intelligence caps a pattern of political appointees clashing with career intelligence culture — but the real question is what the office now actually does.
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The Democrats' autopsy report that autopsies itself
The DNC's 192-page post-mortem on Kamala Harris's 2024 loss is incomplete, factually disputed, and disowned by its own chair — a document that reveals more about the party's dysfunction than the election did.
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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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Tennessee's new map and the redistricting arms race
Republicans erasing Memphis's lone Democratic district is bad for democratic legitimacy — and worse for a party that should know better than to invite mirror retaliation.
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The trade court, the tariffs, and the limits of one-man trade policy
A second judicial defeat for Trump's emergency tariffs is a quiet vindication of the constitutional case for putting trade back where it belongs.
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Ramaswamy's Ohio nomination and the MAGA succession question
The biotech millionaire's Republican primary win in Ohio reveals how thoroughly the Trump-era GOP has remade itself — and how unsettled the question of who inherits it remains.
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The UCLA finding and the long tail of Students for Fair Admissions
A Justice Department determination that UCLA's medical school illegally used race in admissions is the moment the SFFA ruling stopped being a doctrine and became an enforcement regime.
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The Hormuz pause and the price of papal candour
Trump halts 'Project Freedom' after a single day and turns his fire on Pope Leo — a sequence that says more about American strategy than about Vatican diplomacy.
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The Supreme Court's mifepristone reprieve and the limits of judicial nerve
A one-week stay on a lower-court ruling that would have ended mail-order access to the abortion pill is a study in how a confident judiciary becomes a hesitant one.
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The Hormuz hike reaches American pumps
A 30-cent gas price jump and an Iranian lawmaker's warning that the Strait 'will not return' to its pre-war state show the real cost of a war the administration wanted to end on paper.
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Trump's 25% car tariff and the politics of noise
The latest transatlantic tariff threat is less an economic plan than a signalling device — and Europe's response will determine whether the noise turns into structural decoupling.
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The war powers dodge over Iran
Trump's letter declaring hostilities 'terminated' lets Congress off the hook, but the constitutional erosion it accelerates will outlast any ceasefire.
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The Pentagon goes AI-first
Eight new contracts with big tech signal a genuine doctrinal shift — and raise the civilian oversight questions the last algorithmic procurement wave never quite answered.
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Spirit Airlines and the bailout the White House refused
A zombie low-cost carrier finally failed, jet fuel prices did the killing, and the administration's decision to let it go is both harder and more defensible than the reaction suggests.