Trump says all Canada trade talks ‘terminated’ over ad criticising tariffs US president accuses Canada of ‘egregious behaviour’ after release of ad featuring Ronald Reagan criticising tariffs The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2025
Trump terminates trade talks with Canada over ‘fraudulent’ Ronald Reagan tariff ad Furious Trump accuses country of ‘egregious behavior’ in social media post The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2025
Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency's ability to keep pollution out of air and water Two academics look at the stakes involved with air and water pollution if the EPA's budget is cut. Space · Oct 17, 2025
WarGames Is One Of My Favorite '80s Movies, But I Never Knew It Influenced Actual Government Policy President Reagan was a big fan of the movie, too. Cinemablend · Oct 17, 2025
A lasting peace between Israel and Palestine? We’ve heard that before – the result was more bloodshed In 1982, Ronald Reagan picked up the phone to Menachem Begin to tell him to end a war. There are lessons from history and we need to learn them, says Guardian international security correspondent Jason Burke The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2025
Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermine accountability journalism The Guardian - US · Oct 12, 2025
Glenn Jacobs on Donald Trump, the Administrative State, and Ron Paul's Legacy "It's the administrative state and the bureaucrats who are actually populating the rules. They're the ones running most of the government," Tennessee wrestler-turned-mayor Glenn Jacobs tells Reason. Reason · Oct 12, 2025
Ronald Reagan-Era Economic Advisor Steve Hanke Calls Bitcoin's Government Shutdown Rally A 'Flight Of Fantasy' Veteran economist Steve Hanke dismissed Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) rally amid the federal government shutdown as a “flight to fantasy” on Tuesday. Benzinga · Oct 8, 2025
John Oliver on Paramount: ‘Soulless, ethically bankrupt, ass-kissing corporation’ The Last Week Tonight host covered the problematic donations given toward presidential libraries and took a few jabs at Paramount and its settlement with Trump The Guardian - US · Oct 6, 2025
Gordon S. Wood Weighs in on Akhil Reed Amar's Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 Praise from Wood for what I think is the best new book this year. Reason · Oct 5, 2025
‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters like Alice Cooper, recall a major moral panic The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2025
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2025
Every American should read this judge’s stirring rebuke against Trump The court’s opinion in a case on immigrants’ right to free speech is a powerful lesson in civics The Guardian - US · Oct 4, 2025
Trump Has The Longest Shutdown — But Another President Racked Up More Days The government shutdown continues into the weekend with no end in sight. The shutdown marks the third under President Donald Trump in his two presidential terms, here's a look at how the president stacks up in the government shutdown record books. Benzinga · Oct 3, 2025
The Conversation · Oct 3, 2025 Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, set in 1984, is translated for the Trump era in One Battle After Another Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered an Oscar contender.
International Business Times UK · Oct 2, 2025 What is the 25th Amendment And Could It Remove President Trump From Office? What You Need to Know The 25th Amendment allows removal of a US president deemed unfit for office, but its high threshold and political barriers make Trump's ouster virtually impossible despite renewed calls from critics.
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025 Renewed calls for Trump to be removed under the 25th Amendment after threats to Greenland. But can he be? President Donald Trump’s recent behaviour provokes calls from Democrats for him to be relieved of his duties
Reason · Oct 1, 2025 Reagan-Appointed Judge Slams Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Students Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”
Inverse · Oct 1, 2025 15 Years Ago, Matt Reeves' Underrated Horror Remake Cemented A Legacy of Its Own 'Let Me In' is the rare remake that deserves just as many accolades as the Swedish horror classic that inspired it.
The Conversation · Sep 29, 2025 Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping block. But even before Congress decides about the administration’s recommendations to slash its staff, the EPA’s political leaders have made even more significant cuts…
The Conversation · Sep 26, 2025 Charlie Kirk and the making of an AI-generated martyr An AI-generated image of Charlie Kirk embracing Jesus. Another of Kirk posing with angel wings and halo. Then there’s the one of Kirk standing with George Floyd at the gates of heaven.
Reason · Sep 25, 2025 FCC Threats Against Jimmy Kimmel Echo a Century of Speech Control From the Fairness Doctrine to Nixon’s “raised eyebrow,” government licensing power has long chilled broadcast speech—proving the First Amendment should apply fully to the airwaves.
Benzinga · Sep 23, 2025 Trump Closer To Elizabeth Warren And AOC On Economics Than To Reagan: Economist Says President 'Not A Conservative' Economist Peter Schiff said Monday that President Donald Trump's economic approach is "left of center," arguing the White House is closer to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) than to Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater.
The Guardian - US · Sep 20, 2025 Why is Trump so obsessed with Jimmy Kimmel and US late-night TV shows? From JFK to Bill Clinton, US presidents have long accepted the relentless punchlines of late-night hosts as part of the job – until now
Reason · Sep 19, 2025 Donald Trump Is Not a Peace President Trump struggles to articulate any foreign policy view with much coherence, and has a fragile ego that makes world conflicts all about him.