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Trump’s first-day executive orders would have prompted mass outrage had he attempted them in 2017. Today, the response is more muted.
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This past weekend, a pro-Trump throng arrived in Washington not in protest, but in triumph.
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Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring a warrior culture back to the Department of Defense. It’s a terrible idea.
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The president’s new cryptocurrency is even too brazen for some of his supporters.
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The inaugural festivities placed the president’s flair for stagecraft on full display.
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Today leaders of the world’s largest technology platforms kissed the president’s ring.
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Showing off his new big tent, the returning president played circus master to a strange kind of union.
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“It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.” (From 1897)
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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools, — only Uncle Sam can do that.” (From 1897)
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The difference between forgetting the past and choosing not to remember it
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