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Trump has not only failed to reverse the trends that are causing its staffing crisis, they have actually been pressuring one of the Justice Department's top immigration judges into leaving her job — at a time when their immigration policies are already widely criticized as cruel.
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How a major shift in Washington's establishment has left the legal community reeling
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Richard Nixon used a shocking, secret strategy to stop a looming global financial collapse—so what is holding Trump back from doing the exact same thing today? In this AlterNet exclusive, historian Luke Nichter explains why.
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Nobody, except his fanbase, likes this guy.
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When the president of the United States are in retreat mode, whether we know it or not, we’re in a different world.
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President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, are increasingly at odds, a fact brought to light by the disastrous response to the late hiring of his now-former White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia. "The first hint of trouble came after Trump hired the disa...
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The executive-dominated political landscape in which President Donald Trump has reigned in the White House is a far cry from how the Founding Fathers envisioned the U.S. running, and according to a new breakdown from The i Paper, he will soon face a harsh lesson about who is r...
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President Donald Trump's former press secretary, Katie Zacharia, left the administration in disgrace earlier this month after she was accused of falsifying her law background and bellyflopping her first press conference. Yet as Zacharia wishes for the world to clearly know, sh...
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President Donald Trump has betrayed, or "left out in the cold," a group of key workers that he once encouraged to trust him."The new, chillier approach includes a nearly six-month-long delay in a congressionally mandated pay hike for the nation’s 15,000 air traffic controllers...
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Arguing that he had "never seen a viler" attack ad in political history than the one that blew up this week, a prominent conservative New York Times columnist thrashed President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement for continuing to prove they have no rock bottom to hit when it ...
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