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Politics / August 7, 2025 In contrast with the now sober-seeming Reaganites, Trump has taken credit for the economy from day one. Ad Policy A painting of former US President Ronald Reagan behind Donald Trump during a swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard as US director of National Intelligence in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.(Jim Lo / Getty Images) In the winter and spring of 1981, Ronald Reagan took office and pushed through a massive tax cut, domestic spending cuts and military spending increases—a supply-side revolution, while Federal Reserve Chair Paul…

Washington — The fight for control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections is underway — long before a single ballot is cast next year. Texas is fighting to enact a GOP-led redistricting effort that would give Republicans five more seats in the state and help them hold their narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. But it isn’t the only state where redistricting pushes are underway, as California and other states consider similar moves ahead of the midterms.Typically, states redraw congressional and legislative districts after the decennial census to reflect population shifts. Texas undertook its redistricting effort after…

President Trump said Wednesday there’s a “good chance” he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy soon — as Mr. Trump presses Russia to end its three-year invasion of Ukraine.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that Russia suggested a meeting between the U.S. president and Putin, and Mr. Trump is “open” to the idea of a meeting with both Russia and Ukraine’s leaders.Asked hours later whether Putin and Zelenskyy had agreed to a summit, Mr. Trump told reporters, “there’s a very good prospect that they will.” He said it’s not clear where the…

NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, about hosting a group of Texas state lawmakers as they protest a partisan redistricting effort in their state. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: There is a fight that started in Texas and is now being fought around the country. More than 50 Democratic members of the Texas state House left their state on Sunday because the Republican majority legislature directed by a Republican governor and publicly pressured by a Republican president has redrawn its congressional map with the aim of netting five more Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.…

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Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: Robert Reich says the origin of our troubles with Trump and MAGA go back to the sixtieshe says it was our mistake, starting with the sixties movements – that we created “a giant political void that would eventually be filled by Donald Trump’s angry, bigoted cultural populism.”  His new memoir is “Coming Up Short” — we’ll talk about it, later in the hour. But first, how do we face how bad things are now, while also understanding the reasons for hope –…

Federal authorities have arrested an American soldier who allegedly tried to share classified information about the Army’s M1A2 Abrams tank with Russia, the Justice Department said.Taylor Adam Lee — a 22-year-old active-duty Army member stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas — was arrested Wednesday and charged under the Espionage Act with attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary, federal prosecutors said in a statement. He was also charged under the Arms Export Control Act.The Justice Department claimed Lee “transmitted export-controlled technical information on the M1A2 Abrams Tank online and offered assistance to the Russian Federation.” Prosecutors accused…

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President Donald Trump is pictured walking to Marine One to depart the White House in May, with the Washington Monument in the background. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Trump said he is considering taking over the police force of Washington, D.C., after a former member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was injured in an attempted carjacking over the weekend. “He went through a bad situation to put it mildly, and there’s too much of it. We’re going to do something about it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval…

Inside Trump’s tariffs against India Inside Trump’s tariffs against India for buying oil from Russia 03:09 Washington — President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday imposing an additional 25% tariff on goods from India because it continues to buy oil from Russia.The announcement by the president comes just a week after he said he would be slapping a 25% tariff on imports from India, as well as an unspecified “penalty,” because of its purchases of Russian military equipment and energy. The additional tariff are set to take effect in 21 days, according to the directive. The latest action brings…