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A woman walks past a sign indicating the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is closed as the federal government continues its shutdown on Oct. 6, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images With the federal government shutdown hitting the two-week mark, a federal judge in San Francisco will weigh whether to temporarily halt the latest wave of layoffs by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston will hear preliminary arguments on Wednesday in a case brought by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of…

October 14, 2025 Another way to show devotion to the nation and to truth. Ad Policy Linda McMahon, US education secretary, during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2025. The US Department of Education is pushing to strip workplace protections for pregnant or LGBTQ staff, telling its employee union the policies must be changed to conform to President Donald Trump’s executive order on “defending women from gender ideology extremism.”(Eric Lee / Getty Images) Last week while I was observing Yom Kippur, the…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff and supporters protested cuts to the agency outside its headquarters in August. Over this past weekend, hundreds more employees were fired. Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg/Getty Images Around 600 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were cut over the long weekend, as part of a wider push by the Trump Administration to slash the size of the federal workforce during the government shutdown. It was not a smooth process. On Friday, more than 1,300 CDC employees were notified that they had lost their jobs. Many of…

Culture / Books & the Arts / October 14, 2025 Trump’s theory of politics. The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government. Ad Policy Donald Trump with construction workers at the Trump Palace.(Harry Hamburg / Getty Images) This article appears in the November 2025 issue. Ever since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, liberals and the left have struggled to understand the meaning of his rise, and that of “Trumpism,” for American politics. When Trump entered the political scene, he was hard to take seriously. In his first campaign, he seemed—initially,…

From left: A screen shows photos of American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, France’s Philippe Aghion and Canada’s Peter Howitt during the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up. That is, economic growth was pretty flat for millennia, and then, around 1800, it points upward toward the sky. It’s no…

October 14, 2025 The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US. Ad Policy Michelle Lujan Grisham, who recently announced that New Mexico will offer free universal childcare, speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative 2025 Annual Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 25, 2025, in New York City.(JP Yim / Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission. For four years, New Mexico has been on a distressing losing streak. The state has consistently ranked last in the nation…

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Mills has announced a run to unseat Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate. Robert F. Bukaty/AP hide caption toggle caption Robert F. Bukaty/AP Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday that she’ll enter the race to defeat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a top target in national Democrats’ bid to regain the Senate. Mills was recruited by Democratic Senate leaders after her high-profile confrontation with President Donald Trump in February over transgender athletes, a dispute that triggered a wave of…

Poll after poll in recent months has revealed that, while approval ratings for Donald Trump are tanking and are also down for congressional Republicans, attitudes toward the Democratic Party are even more negative. And, as The Christian Science Monitor has pointed out, “One subgroup driving the Democrats’ poor ratings [is] their own base. A recent CNN poll found that Democratic voters currently hold far more negative views of their own party than Republican voters do of theirs. At town hall events and in focus groups, frustrated Democrats say they want their representatives to push back harder against the Trump administration.”…

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L), accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine (R), speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in June in Arlington, Va. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document, which warns that journalists may lose their press credentials for “soliciting” even unclassified information from federal employees that has not been officially approved for release. That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting…

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