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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.
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.
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.
Comment

Trump Sends in the National Guard

Is the President’s takeover of D.C. a dry run for other cities?
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.
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.
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?
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.”