The Latest Breaking News from Ronald Reagan

The right’s 60-year war on education

Trump's attacks on elite universities echo the right-wing playbook Ronald Reagan created nearly six decades ago

Salon · Apr 6, 2025

Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ will live in infamy

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The president of the United States has dismantled the world trade system, pushed the global economy towards another slump and turned economics on its head. He must end this madness

The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2025

Trump goes full gameshow host to push his tariff plan – and nobody’s a winner

There were charts and scores, as if The Price Is Right had come to Washington. The big prize? A global trade war

The Guardian - US · Apr 2, 2025

Top KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky dies aged 86

Code-named Hetman, Oleg Gordievsky was one of the most important spies of the Cold War.

Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2025

The end of 50-year privatization project

Trump’s DOGE campaign accelerates a longtime Republican trend

Salon · Mar 22, 2025

‘Putting the unvarnished history out there’: art and activism during the Aids crisis

A new series of events and exhibitions aim to remember the art made during a devastating time, centered on the powerful Aids quilt

The Guardian - US · Mar 22, 2025

Oleg Gordievsky obituary

Russian spy who was the highest ranking KGB officer to defect to Britain

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2025

Donald Trump’s nonstop news-making can be exhausting, making it harder for people to scrutinize his presidential actions

Like many other news organizations, The Associated Press maintains a “live updates” page, which posts the latest from the Trump administration in a ticker tape-like live scroll, with multiple updates per hour, 12 hours a day.

The Conversation · Mar 19, 2025

High school sports are losing athletes to private clubs, but schools can keep them by focusing on character development

Not long ago, high school students who wanted to play football, basketball or another sport had few options other than trying out for their school team. And it was to high school gymnasiums and fields that recruiters flocked to find talent for colleges and even the pros.

The Conversation · Mar 19, 2025

A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for more than 72 million people, including low-income Americans and their children and people with disabilities. It also helps foot the…

The Conversation · Mar 18, 2025