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Who Is Really Running the Federal Government? Hint, It’s Not Donald Trump

Who Is Really Running the Federal Government? Hint, It’s Not Donald Trump

“I’m an American Before I am a Republican”: Bacon Reflects on Tenure

“I’m an American Before I am a Republican”: Bacon Reflects on Tenure

Is the U.S. Heading to a Police State? Trump Executive Orders and Project 2025 Raise Alarms

Is the U.S. Heading to a Police State? Trump Executive Orders and Project 2025 Raise Alarms

Did Trump Play a Role in Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Getting Canceled?

Did Trump Play a Role in Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Getting Canceled?

U.S.-Japan Trade Pact Recalibrates Tariffs, Investment, and Alliances

U.S.-Japan Trade Pact Recalibrates Tariffs, Investment, and Alliances

Podcast: Democracy in danger

Podcast: Democracy in danger
The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumMay 12, 2022
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Education is the subject this week on "Democracy in Danger." You’ve heard all about attacks on the teaching of racism and slavery, about the banning of books on the Holocaust and gender identity, about Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill. Public schools are ground zero in the battle over American civic life. But this is nothing new, historian Natalia Petrzela says. She locates the roots of such controversies in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s that continue to play out today, in a climate of discontent muddled by pandemic anxieties.

S4 E11. Learning Curbed

S4 E11. Learning Curbed

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The Politics of Compromise and Conviction
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The Politics of Compromise and Conviction

Just the Facts: Trump’s 35% Canadian Tariff and Canada’s Response
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Just the Facts: Trump’s 35% Canadian Tariff and Canada’s Response

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s DOJ Meetings Spark New Scrutiny Over Epstein Files

Ghislaine Maxwell, September 20, 2013

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s DOJ Meetings Spark New Scrutiny Over Epstein Files

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, has met twice this week with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—a move that’s raising eyebrows across Washington and reigniting public demands for transparency in the Epstein saga.

Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida federal prison, reportedly initiated the meetings herself. According to her attorney, David Oscar Markus, she answered “every single question” posed by DOJ officials over the course of nine hours of interviews. Sources indicate that she was granted limited immunity, which allowed her to speak freely without fear of self-incrimination.

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Trump Was Told He’s in Epstein Files

A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files on July 23, 2025 in New York City.

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Trump Was Told He’s in Epstein Files

In May 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly informed President Donald Trump that his name appeared multiple times in the government’s files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier convicted of sex trafficking. The revelation, confirmed by sources cited in The Wall Street Journal and CNN, has reignited public scrutiny over the administration’s handling of the Epstein case and its broader implications for democratic transparency.

The new reports contradict an account given earlier this month by the president, who responded "no, no" when asked by a reporter whether Bondi had told him that his name appeared in the files.

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Handcuffs, taxes, law, police, enforcement, tax

ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

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The IRS Is Building a Vast System To Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.

ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.

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Shifting the Spotlight: Trump’s Epstein Strategy Echoes His 2016 Playbook

A photograph of US President Donald Trump and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is displayed after being unofficially installed in a bus shelter on July 17, 2025 in London, England.

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Shifting the Spotlight: Trump’s Epstein Strategy Echoes His 2016 Playbook

This morning, many of us awoke to a jarring juxtaposition of headlines: The Wall Street Journal published a column revealing that Jeffrey Epstein received a birthday album filled with bawdy letters—including one from President Donald Trump. And shortly thereafter, news broke that Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of grand jury transcripts related to Epstein, citing mounting political pressure and intensifying public scrutiny.

Late last night, Trump took to Truth Social, posting that he had requested Bondi release “any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,” framing the controversy as a “SCAM, perpetuated by the Democrats.”

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