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For decades, right-wing conservatives in Congress have talked about the need to cut government deeply while giving tax breaks to the rich, but they have always pulled back from mandating specific reductions, fearful of voter backlash. Now, Donald Trump’s administration is trying to make major cuts in government through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, run by the South African oligarch Elon Musk — an initiative led by an unelected businessman who is unlikely to ever run for office and was appointed by a termed-out president who no longer needs to face voters again. The dynamic of...

Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the monument, which was a gift from France nearly 140 years ago. Raphaël Glucksmann, as a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, cannot claim to speak for all of his compatriots. But his assertion in a speech recently that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants” reflects the broad shockwaves that Donald Trump’s seismic...

The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled out for sanctions and accused of being anti-White and anti-American. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was “no longer welcome in our great country” and said he was “a race-baiting politician” who hates America and U.S. President Donald Trump. Rubio’s post did not explain what was behind the decision but linked to a story by the conservative Breitbart news site. The story reported about a talk Rasool gave on a webinar where...

When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges. The international-affairs graduate student was a fixture in and around the protest encampment on Columbia’s Manhattan campus, serving as a spokesperson and negotiator for demonstrators who deplored Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and pressed the Ivy League school to cut financial ties with Israel and companies that supported the war. “We want to be visible,” Khalil said last April. Now that visibility has helped make him the...