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MoveOn Statement on Trump Admin Arresting Political Opponents

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WASHINGTON – In response to the Trump administration bringing federal charges against Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), MoveOn Civic Action Executive Director Rahna Epting released the following statement:  “We are in dangerous territory now that the president of the United States is arresting anyone who disagrees with him. If he can get away with arresting a sitting member of Congress, a judge, or a student, he can arrest anybody. MoveOn and our members have Rep. McIver’s back, and we will not let the Trump administration intimidate us into silence. “It is…

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Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext

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The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out. To hear McMahon tell it, Harvard is a university on the verge of ruin. (I say McMahon because her signature is at the bottom of the letter, but portions of the document are written in such a distinctive idiolect—“Why is there so much HATE?” the letter asks; it signs off with “Thank you for your attention to…

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Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump

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Editor’s Note: Read The Atlantic’s related cover story, “‘I Run the Country and the World.’” On Thursday, April 24, I joined my colleagues Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer in the White House to interview President Donald Trump. The story behind this meeting is a strange one, told in their new Atlantic cover story, which you can read here. Ashley and Michael had been seeking an Oval Office meeting for some time. It had been scheduled, then angrily unscheduled, then followed by an impromptu interview from the president’s cellphone, and then…

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