A top Democrat says the Senate "betrayed" the US people in a day of "utter shame" in passing the mammoth spending bill.

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“The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents, a campaign that often violates or ...

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Liberalism’s core class is under siege—can the liberal order survive the global backlash against its institutional power?

The populists and the tech right competed to supply the GOP’s new policy. The president has picked the least-attractive ideas ...

Trump is a big dreamer, eyeing Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal, no less. Why grudge him a $400m luxury jet, a “palace in the sky”, from the Qatari government, when his trumpeters are seeking to ...

“The work of DOGE is not even close to done,” J.D. Vance affirmed in April. “The work of Elon is not even close to done.” It’s Not Just Musk — Big Tech Elites Are Embedded in Trump 2.0. There is some ...