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Earlier this week, the TRU Detectives sat down with Senator Gary Peters, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Peters, the junior senator from Michigan, is one of the lesser-known Democratic senators in American politics. But make no mistake, he is a major player in Democratic politics. He is the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, whose portfolio includes a range of national security and anti-terrorism topics. A businessman who served in the Navy Reserve... Читать дальше...

The Trump Train is more of a clown car.

In the latest episode of Trump-adjacent criminality, three top-line investors have been charged with insider trading relating to a proposed merger with the company that owns twice-impeached and twice-indicted former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social social media platform.

The Floridian trio allegedly got away with over $22 million by illegally trading shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), a shell company that was set to merge with Trump Media Technology Group (TMTG). Читать дальше...

The 2024 presidential election is well over a year away—and the GOP nomination is still up for grabs, at least technically. And yet, early signs are pointing to another very close election: Most early polling shows that President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck, albeit with large numbers of undecided voters, in national polling, and tight races in a number of swing states.

The Supreme Court effectively ended the nation’s half-century experiment with affirmative action in college admissions on Thursday, ruling that the policies used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision, which fell along the court’s usual ideological lines, will reopen the legal battlefield over diversity and college admissions.

The Supreme Court this morning outlawed affirmative action in colleges, and Mike Pence quickly distinguished himself among the crowded 2024 GOP field with the dumbest reaction yet to the ruling.

Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee have both rejected parts of Republican-led bans on gender-affirming health care for people under the age of 18—just days, even hours, before the anti-trans laws were set to take effect.

The Supreme Court has voted to end affirmative action in higher education, overturning decades-old policy originating from the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Last fall, in those early months of dazed disbelief over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a local Ohio television reporter stood in front of one of the state’s eight installed “safe haven baby boxes,” places where mothers can anonymously relinquish their newborns. Her plaintive expression belied her breezy demeanor and cheery chartreuse dress. The reporter’s unease did not stem from a sadness at the idea that a mother would dispose of a newborn in such a fashion. In fact, quite the opposite... Читать дальше...

Long before the Supreme Court took up one of the last remaining cases it will decide this session—the 303 Creative v. Elenis case, concerning a Colorado web designer named Lorie Smith who refuses to make websites for same-sex weddings and seeks an exemption from anti-discrimination laws—there was a couple named Stewart and Mike. According to court filings from the plaintiff, Stewart contacted Smith in September 2016 about his wedding to Mike “early next year.” He wrote that they “would love some design work done for our invites... Читать дальше...

The most notable aspect of Donald Trump’s federal indictment for allegedly mishandling classified documents, as I have previously argued, is just how unnecessary it was. The Department of Justice was extraordinarily reluctant to bring charges against a former president and current presidential candidate. All Trump had to do was return the numerous boxes in which he kept attack plans and nuclear secrets (and maybe some golf shoes) and he would have gotten away with it. He probably even would’ve... Читать дальше...

One of the most farcical sports sagas in memory is approaching its endgame: Last week the Oakland Athletics, who have called the Bay Area home since 1968 (and won four World Series there), officially began the process to relocate to Las Vegas. If the franchise succeeds—and by all appearances it will, given how Major League Baseball and Nevada politicians have rolled out the technicolor carpet—it will go down in history as an unusually naked example of billionaire interests being put ahead of fans, taxpayers, and the public good. Читать дальше...

This week’s episode of How to Save a Country is the last one. We never intended for this to go on forever, and we think we’ve given our listeners a great introduction to the thinkers and doers out there who are conjuring up the ideas and strategies to get the country to a better place. They can take it from here!

Ron DeSantis is in a bit of a pickle: He is quite unpleasant personally (as can be seen by interrogations into his physical humanity, let alone his spiritual humanity; or in watching how many Republicans immediately endorse Trump after meeting with DeSantis). He is not necessarily more unpleasant than a lot of other politicians. But his particular brand of unpleasantness has made it so that we as observers are much more primed to pick up on his specific oddities or downright distastefulness.

Ron DeSantis is taking his idiotic “war on woke” to new, extremist levels.