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Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms.

The Conversation · Feb 3, 2025

What is the 90-year-old tax rule Trump could use to double US taxes on foreigners?

US President Donald Trump isn’t happy about the way some countries are taxing American citizens and companies. He has made clear he’s willing to retaliate, threatening to double taxes for their own citizens and companies.

The Conversation · Jan 29, 2025

President Trump promises to make government efficient − and he’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, “It’s all about common sense.”

The Conversation · Jan 24, 2025

How do Donald Trump’s executive orders compare to all other US presidents?

Recent presidents of the United States have issued fewer executive orders.

Al Jazeera · Jan 20, 2025

Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II

June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three…

The Conversation · Jan 2, 2025

Biden to sign proclamation establishing national monument honoring first US female Cabinet secretary

President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2024

Trump wants to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war

President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he plans to launch the nation’s largest-ever mass deportation operation in his second term.

The Conversation · Dec 11, 2024

Trump's risky Social Security plans

Millions are barely scraping by on the program, which Trump seems determined to gut

Salon · Nov 18, 2024

Trump and his team keep referencing a third term in 2028. But could he actually run again?

The 22nd amendment bars presidents from a third term in office. Is it enough to stop Trump?

The Independent UK · Nov 13, 2024

The great remembrance divide: Britain fought for freedom in Europe, but against it in the colonies

While war raged against Hitler, people in places such as India were brutalised – despite their own sacrifices to the cause, says author Mihir Bose

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2024