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Washington’s Besieged Journalists Raise a Cocktail Glass, Darkly

admin27 April 2025

The annual weekend celebrating America’s free press went forward, even as the Trump administration chips away at press freedoms.

Trump Doesn’t Want to Govern

admin27 April 2025

I think it’s obvious that neither President Trump nor his coterie of agents and apparatchiks has any practical interest in governing the nation. It’s one reason (among many) they are so eager to destroy the federal bureaucracy; in their minds, you ...

How Francis, a Progressive Pope, Catalyzed the Catholic Right in the U.S.

admin25 April 2025

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

White House Ends a Regular Reporting Slot for Independent Newswires

admin24 April 2025

The move, which affects The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and Reuters, is another effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over the press corps that covers it.