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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records on Tuesday during an arraignment hearing in Manhattan. The former president, who is now the first in the nation’s history to be indicted for a felony, did not speak during the hearing.

Donald Trump is going down in history. The only president to face two impeachment trials is now the first former president to be arrested in a criminal indictment. At the same time, we have seen antisemitism and hateful propaganda rise. In 2022, antisemitic incidents rose 36 percent compared to 2021, according to the Anti-Defamation League; during the same period, white supremacist propaganda increased by 38 percent. Meanwhile, we have been debating whether racial diversity and inclusion efforts... Читать дальше...

Did Trump have a child out of wedlock?

Twice-impeached former President Donald Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records on Tuesday. Trump became the first former president ever to be indicted, for his role in disbursing hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. And what else was among those payments? A $30,000 payment to a former Trump Tower doorman for their silence about a potential Trump child out of wedlock.

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There’s a lot we still don’t know about the fallout of the charges Donald Trump faces in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case he turned himself in for Tuesday. But thanks to a new poll, we’re starting to get hints about one of the biggest open questions in this case: what the long-term polling ramifications will be for Donald Trump, the Republican primary field, or the American electorate as a whole. And those hints are, well, weird.

Donald Trump was charged Tuesday with 34 counts of business fraud. He pleaded not guilty to all of them.

Almost eight years after he announced his bid for presidency, and seven years after “Lock Her Up” became a calling chorus for his supporters, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump has been arrested.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that with his criminal indictment, Donald Trump has entered the upper echelons of martyrdom.

On Tuesday, as Donald Trump is set to be formally arraigned, tens of people came out in support of the twice-impeached and now criminally indicted former president.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wants everyone protesting against Donald Trump on Tuesday to be arrested for being too loud.

Tennessee Republican Representative Justin Lafferty—who once valorized the three-fifths compromise—reportedly shoved Black Tennessee Representative Justin Jones on the floor of the statehouse Monday night. Jones and two other Democratic lawmakers currently face threats of expulsion from the legislature for breaking “decorum” by interrupting proceedings to advocate for students protesting gun violence. The world waits with bated breath to see if Lafferty’s actions also qualify as breaking decorum. Читать дальше...

Florida Democratic leaders were arrested during a protest for abortion rights, just hours after the state Senate passed a bill banning the procedure at six weeks.

In the early 2000s, I overheard two men discussing Italian politics as I sat at a café in Mondello, Sicily. “Can you believe it? They indicted Berlusconi again! Berlusconi has been hit with more than 20 indictments, and [Romano] Prodi not even one!” They clearly did not see the accumulation of criminal charges against Silvio Berlusconi as a measure of his and his business empire’s corruption. Instead, they saw the charges as a sign of the relentless persecution he had been exposed to. Similarly... Читать дальше...

Isolation from the outside world has driven some of Orhan Pamuk’s most important works. In The White Castle (1985), an Ottoman pasha and his Venetian slave in the seventeenth century retreat to a mansion during a plague, debating philosophy and attempting to answer the Cartesian question “Who am I?” using Eastern and Western traditions. In Snow (2002), a military coup isolates citizens of Kars, a town on the border with Armenia, from the rest of Turkey, leading to soul-searching on the meaning... Читать дальше...

The Inflation Reduction Act has been lauded by President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats as the most significant climate legislation in American history. But some provisions of the massive new law have proven difficult to implement, with implications for individual consumers, companies, and countries alike.

Former Boston Globe and Washington Post editor Martin “Marty” Baron reemerged in the media discourse recently, after publishing an extensive defense of the notion of journalistic objectivity. It is a massive understatement to call Baron an incredible journalist and a man of deep integrity. As many a moviegoer knows, Baron led the Globe during its investigation of systemic sexual abuse by the city’s Catholic archdiocese and became a minor liberal icon during the Trump administration by standing up for press freedom. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned on Tuesday in New York City after his indictment by a local grand jury last week. We don’t yet know the charges that he faces; those will be unveiled during Tuesday’s proceedings. Reporting by major news outlets suggests that charges are related to hush-money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has investigated Trump for other things as well, and he could surprise us. Читать дальше...

Tennessee Republicans are pushing to expel State Representatives Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson for the bold act of standing in solidarity with thousands of children asking for more gun control after a mass shooting at a school in Nashville last week.