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The Big Picture / May 13, 2025 It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage. Ad Policy Rapper Amber Rose presides at the Republican National Convention.(Leon Neal / Getty) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “Culture Wars.” Paris—When you hear the word culture, what do you reach for? The Nazis, famously, reached for their guns—a response presumably based on the belief that there is something about art and culture that is intrinsically hostile to authoritarian values. But the myth that creativity is always on the side of progress—that artists must also…

It was May 2019 and national security officials were in the Situation Room discussing Iran when President Trump abruptly changed the subject. He wanted to talk about granting asylum and citizenship to white South African farmers.Mr. Trump had floated the idea before, claiming that the farmers were a persecuted minority group being displaced from their land, according to John R. Bolton, his national security adviser at the time, who was at the meeting.Mr. Bolton said he thought little of Mr. Trump’s wish. The president had embraced fringe ideas and false narratives pushed by white Afrikaner activists, Mr. Bolton said.“It never…

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, allowing the case against her to continue.A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Tuesday confirmed the indictment to CBS News.The arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan escalated a clash between President Trump’s administration and local authorities over the Republican’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to make a national example of Dugan to chill judicial opposition to the crackdown.Dugan on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss the indictment…

House Republicans on Wednesday pushed forward with major legislation to deliver President Trump’s domestic agenda, moving over the opposition of Democrats to advance significant cuts to taxes and Medicaid after slogging through all-night drafting sessions.The votes in two key committees, and a third that was expected later Wednesday, were a crucial step for what Mr. Trump has labeled the “big beautiful bill” that Republicans hope to push through the House by the end of next week. The approvals sent the main pieces of the legislation to the full House, where G.O.P. leaders were racing to pass it before a Memorial…

A Las Vegas man who made a series of antisemitic death threats against Senator Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat who is Jewish, and also threatened her family and that of another senator was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly four years in prison, federal prosecutors said.The man, John Anthony Miller, 44, left numerous violent and ranting voice mail messages on Ms. Rosen’s office phone between Oct. 11 and Oct. 25, 2023, in which he threatened to “finish what Hitler started” and suggested that she was complicit in the deaths of Palestinians, prosectors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Nevada charged in…

Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is set to give a speech on the rule of law and what she paints as President Trump’s overreach on Wednesday night, as Democrats look to find effective messaging that will resonate with voters about the early days of the Republican’s second term in the White House. Excerpts obtained by CBS News ahead of the event hosted by The New Republic show Klobuchar, a leading Senate Democrat who has not ruled out a 2028 presidential run, plans to make the case that “Donald Trump is trying to remake the executive office into one that is immune from…

Ryan Routh, the man accused in a 2024 assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a West Palm Beach, Fla. golf course, had a federal court hearing Wednesday in Fort Pierce, Fla. In this file photo of the Alto Lee Adams Sr. United States Courthouse, attorneys argued several merits of the case — including what can and can’t be used in the trial. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The man charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump when he was running for president last year has asked a judge to dismiss some…

  3m ago Ventura describes being beaten in a car Ventura recounts being beaten in a car, testifying Combs hit her and stomped on her. She said it left her face swollen. When he saw her swollen face, Ventura testified he told her to go to a hotel and stay there. She did so for a week. She testified she told security personnel she wanted to go home to her mother.  By Alice Gainer https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live-updates/diddy-trial-live-updates-cassie-testimony/#post-update-328db825   16m ago Employees were present during abuse, Ventura says Prosecutors showed Ventura photographs, at least one of which was taken at a “freak off.” She indicated the…

The Supreme Court protects the rights of the rich and conservative—to heck with almost everyone else. Ad Policy United States Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait on October 7, 2022, in Washington, DC.(Alex Wong / Getty Images) Copyright © 2025 by Leah Litman. From the book Lawless by Leah Litman, published by One Signal Publishers, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by permission. The Republican justices seem to think that some people get free speech while others do not. Because this is a court driven by conservative grievance, it seems to think that people have a…

The strategy is an old one for Republicans: Cut taxes for a few years, avoiding the need to account for their cost over the long term, and bet that the reductions become popular enough that Congress will later vote to continue them.The tax bill that Republicans are now putting together on Capitol Hill takes the gambit to a whole new level.Almost all of the new tax cuts that Republicans have included in the bill, which could evolve over the coming weeks, will last only until the end of 2028, just days before President Trump is set to leave office. That…