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Giant Corporations Poised to Exploit Donald Trump Tariffs

The super-rich are ecstatic. Bitcoin’s value surged past $100,000 last year, and bankers were “dancing in the streets” after Donald Trump’s victory in November. Wall Street is already licking its chops over forecasts for stock gains in 2025. Meanwhile, a stark year-end report showed an 18 percent jump in homelessness. And small business owners are […]

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Ohio Puts Police Bodycam Footage Behind a Paywall

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law on Thursday changes to the state’s public records statute that allow law enforcement agencies to charge hundreds of dollars for body camera footage. Though such videos are central to watchdog reporting and police oversight, Ohio opted to join a handful of states that have made it easier for […]

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Intercept Briefing Podcast: Media’s Biggest Failures

Few journalists have ventured as deep into the shadows of American power as The Intercept’s James Risen. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Risen waged a remarkable seven-year battle against the federal government to protect his sources, risking imprisonment to defend press freedom. As he prepares to retire from journalism, he joins this week’s Intercept Briefing to […]

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Steve Scalise Says DEI Initiatives Led to Bourbon Street Attack

Bourbon Street hadn’t even reopened when House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was settling on what he saw as one of the main culprits behind the deadly New Year’s truck-ramming attack: DEI. In a Thursday interview with a talk radio station in New Orleans, Scalise claimed that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives bore part of […]

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No Education Experience Except Wanting to Defund Public Schools

As Washington prepares for President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, federal agencies are bracing for a wave of anticipated cuts — perhaps none more so than the Department of Education. Trump promised the total destruction of the long-standing federal agency in a September 2023 campaign videowith an announcement that he would be “sending all education and […]

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He Leaked Trump’s Tax Returns. Will Biden Protect Him?

Earlier this month, a group of professors from the normally stodgy world of tax law wrote to President Joe Biden calling on him to free the IRS contractor who leaked the tax returns of Donald Trump and thousands of millionaires and billionaires. Charles Littlejohn’s five-year sentence was six times the recommended maximum, the professors said, […]

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Trump FTC Pick Andrew Ferguson Now Wants to Politicize Agency

For years, Republicans claimed that Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan was politicizing her ostensibly independent agency by working too closely with the Biden administration. Days before the election, House Republicans aligned with Donald Trump even put out a scathing report on the subject. That was then. In a repeat of the last time Trump […]