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One Judge Just Showed Why Jerome Powell Is Free to Stand Up To Trump’s Bullying

One Judge Just Showed Why Jerome Powell Is Free to Stand Up To Trump’s Bullying

This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing...

19.03.2026 20

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Trump Has Seized More Ballots as Part of His Effort to Take Over the 2026 Midterms

Trump Has Seized More Ballots as Part of His Effort to Take Over the 2026 Midterms

Sign up for Executive Dysfunction, a weekly newsletter that surfaces under-the-radar stories about what Trump is doing to the law—and how the law is...

13.03.2026 6

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I Went to One of Trump’s Mass Deportation Warehouses. It Was Eerie.

This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing...

12.03.2026 10

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One of Trump’s Earliest Authoritarian Moves Is Starting to Explode in His Face

This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing...

05.03.2026 5

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Shirin Ali

We Just Got More Information About the Biggest Question in American Politics

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. We know that the...

27.02.2026 10

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Aileen Cannon’s Campaign for a Supreme Court Seat Just Reached a New Low

This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing...

26.02.2026 10

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If Democrats Fold on Their ICE Demands, It Will Be a Disaster

For many of us, living in President Donald Trump’s America feels like a never-ending doom loop. Every day brings a fresh batch of headlines about...

19.02.2026 60

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The Frightening, Very Real Tool ICE Agents Have to Add You to a “Nice Little Database” if You Attend a Protest

05.02.2026 5

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The Real Reason Trump Chose Georgia as His First Strike on the 2026 Vote

03.02.2026 20

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Are Gun Rights Activists Turning On Trump Over Alex Pretti’s Killing? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

28.01.2026 7

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Trump’s Threats to Imprison Minnesota Democrats Are Doomed. That’s Not the Point.

24.01.2026 30

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ICE Will Come to Your City, Suburb, or Town. Here’s How to Prepare.

23.01.2026 20

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His Case is the Epitome of Trump’s Immigration Cruelty. It’s About to Land in Front of the Worst Possible Person.

21.01.2026 10

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The DOJ’s Charges Against the Maduros Actually Seem Pretty Strong

07.01.2026 10

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Democrats Are Ending the Year on a Particularly Dumb Note

22.12.2025 6

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The Most Cynical Ploy to Win a Trump Supreme Court Appointment Yet

11.12.2025 30

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The GOP Planned Its Midterm Strategy Around Mamdani. Then He Met With Trump.

26.11.2025 7

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Trump Just Issued a Shocking New Pardon. It Won’t Work as Intended.

21.11.2025 7

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Republicans Are Ripping a New Giant Hole in the Social Safety Net

14.11.2025 20

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The Fight Against Authoritarian Creep Gets Great News From an Unlikely State

14.11.2025 10

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Federal Judge Uses Trump’s Own Words To Prove DOJ Was Defying His Court Order

08.11.2025 10

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Trump’s “Election Observers” Are a Sign of Something Much Worse on the Horizon

31.10.2025 6

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I Went Door-to-Door With Zohran Canvassers. What People Said Surprised Me.

27.10.2025 10

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How Can Democrats Make Their Comeback? A Candidate Who Also Lost in 2024 Might Actually Have Some Answers.

23.10.2025 20

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Democrats Caved to Keep the Government Open in March. Now They’re Changing Their Tune.

30.09.2025 7

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Trump Is Out for Revenge. His Former Legal Team Is Helping Him Get It.

27.09.2025 10

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One Republican Has Been More Two-Faced About Charlie Kirk’s Critics Than Any Other

18.09.2025 10

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Trump Plan to Reduce “Fraud” in the Citizenship Test Will Actually Increase It

17.09.2025 7

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Are We Living in America’s Assassination Era?

12.09.2025 20

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The Reason the Trump Administration Is So Obsessed With Deporting This One Man

11.09.2025 6

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Trump’s Team Simply Cannot Leave This Man Alone

28.08.2025 9

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That New York Fraud Ruling Was Not Nearly the Trump Victory It’s Being Billed As

23.08.2025 10

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The Smithsonian Is Obeying in Advance. It Won’t Work.

22.08.2025 8

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We Think We Figured Out What Trump’s D.C. Endgame Is

14.08.2025 8

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Trump Promised to Fix Inflation. He’s Doing This Instead.

11.08.2025 10

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One of Trump’s Most Hated First-Term Policies Returns in a New Form

07.08.2025 8

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He’s Backing Losers and Infuriating the DNC. It Might Be Exactly What Democrats Need.

30.07.2025 10

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The Public Is Losing Patience With Trump on Immigration. Your Move, Congress.

24.07.2025 9

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A Former ICE Official Is Worried That the Agency Is About to Go on a Hiring Spree of Proud Boys

17.07.2025 10

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The Supreme Court Limited Lower Courts’ Power to Stop Trump’s Lawlessness. A Judge Is Trying Another Way.

12.07.2025 10

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You Could Not Make Up Trump’s Latest Horrifying Immigration Court Case

04.07.2025 10

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Sonia Sotomayor Puts It Clearly: None of Our Rights Are Safe

28.06.2025 10

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How Much Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Get Away With? We Got an Ominous Sign This Week.

26.06.2025 10

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Trump Is Doubling Down on ICE Raids. It Might Come Back to Haunt Him.

19.06.2025 7

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Even Donald Trump Is Starting to See the Absurdity of Stephen Miller’s Deportation Targets

14.06.2025 10

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Trump Reprises One of the Worst Things He Did in His First Term

07.06.2025 4

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There’s an Alarming Part of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” You Probably Haven’t Heard Much About

04.06.2025 8

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Let’s Unpack One of the More Disturbing Things Stephen Miller Has Said

02.06.2025 7

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It’s the El Salvador Deportation Flight All Over Again—but This Time to South Sudan

22.05.2025 6

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What It Would Look Like If the Trump Administration Got Its Way in the Birthright Citizenship Case

19.05.2025 10

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