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The Lede
Can Donald Trump Police the United States?
In a trial over the legality of the President’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, there may be a definitive answer to where his power ends.
By Cristian Farias
The Financial Page
Big Business and Wall Street Need to Stand Up for Honest Data
In nominating an inexperienced MAGA partisan for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Donald Trump is chipping away at an essential foundation of the American economy.
By John Cassidy
The Lede
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.
By Eyal Press
Comment
Trump Sends in the National Guard
Is the President’s takeover of D.C. a dry run for other cities?
By Margaret Talbot
The Lede
The Texas Democrats’ Remote Resistance
After leaving the state to block the G.O.P. from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Democratic lawmakers are keeping the pressure on from afar.
By Peter Slevin
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin
Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.
By Susan B. Glasser
Fault Lines
The Curious Symbolism of J. D. Vance’s English Getaway
The Vice-President built his political brand on bashing élites. Why does he vacation like one?
By Jon Allsop
The Lede
How an Asylum Seeker in U.S. Custody Ended Up in a Russian Prison
Eighteen months after an activist fled Russia to avoid persecution, an appeals court found that he lacked a “well-founded fear or clear probability of future persecution.”
By Joshua Yaffa