Nixon paved the way for Trump’s "new standard" of inaugural fundraising
Trump and Nixon are far from the only presidents to rake in money for inaugurations. Twelve years after Nixon's $4 million ...
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A Lawless Leader and His Revolution
Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is ...
The legal battle over Trump's federal funding freeze is just beginning
The Trump administration’s push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is ...
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Devasting Empathy: Jules Feiffer, 1929–2025
After watching Gore Vidal’s play An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972) Jules Feiffer unexpectedly found himself “feeling sorry ...
Can Trump Cancel Government Funds Through Impoundment? What To Know As He Pauses Federal Assistance.
President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...
Lawrence: Trump could not finish his first week as president ‘without violating the law’
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...
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Richard Nixon’s third term on trade starts today
Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...
Explainer-Does Trump administration's spending pause violate US law?
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday issued a sweeping directive to federal agencies to temporarily pause ...