100 Days of Trump Style

100 Days of Trump Style

Amid the chaos of President Trump’s first 100 days — norms upended, tariffs levied and tariffs paused, confrontations in the courts — one thing has remained consistent. Dependable even. The administration’s look, and just how much it matters. Mr. Trump’s cultivation of his own image (suit and tie and hair …

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Trump’s Tariffs Prompt Wave of Lawsuits

Trump’s Tariffs Prompt Wave of Lawsuits

Somewhere along a roughly 7,500-mile journey that begins in Shenzhen, China, there are 19 shipments bound for Rick Woldenberg, the chief executive of Learning Resources, an educational toy company in Vernon Hills, Ill. Eventually, the containers of puzzle cards, child binoculars and other products will reach a port in the …

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How Trump Is Putting Law Firms in a No-Win Situation

How Trump Is Putting Law Firms in a No-Win Situation

Willkie Farr & Gallagher last week became the latest law firm to strike a deal with the White House and escape President Trump’s wrath. But the firm, which pledged $100 million in legal services to causes that the Trump administration supports, traded one problem for another. Willkie has faced a …

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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his power. “Honest to god, I’ve never seen …

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Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission

Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the corporate regulator’s traditional independence that may clear the way for the administration’s agenda. The White House told the Democrats, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, that the president was terminating their roles, …

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‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done

‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of American intellectual life, like the mainstream media and academia, have been overrun by progressive groupthink and need to be dissolved. …

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Russell Vought Poised to Expand Power of White House Budget Office

Russell Vought Poised to Expand Power of White House Budget Office

While leading the Office of Management and Budget during the first Trump administration, Russell T. Vought took steps to to expand the number of federal employees required to work during a government shutdown, froze military aid for Ukraine and railed against “wasteful spending” such as foreign aid and organizing unions …

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