Enough time has passed since Donald Trump’s inauguration to begin to understand that the president lacks a decent political project for the United States, and even less a coherent vision of his country’s role in the world. Trump’s political project began, firstly, with avoiding prison and, once in power, focused on enriching himself and his family as much as possible by shamelessly exploiting the system’s gray areas, using the exceptional platform afforded him by the head-of-state role in the planet’s superpower. His is a project of systematized corruption and of extractive subjugation of institutions to his will.

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Everything, it seems, has a limit. The nearly $1.8 billion public fund that the Donald Trump administration plans to create to distribute to its allies has even shocked lawmakers who until now had been staunchly loyal to him. So much so that Republican leaders in the Senate have scrapped plans to vote this week on the bill that would allocate billions in additional funding to immigration agencies (including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE), because of deep disagreements over the multimillion-dollar compensation fund for Trump supporters “persecuted” by the justice system during Joe Biden’s administration.

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“Cereal Finally Manned Up.” That’s the slogan of Man Cereal, a cereal brand that not only contains creatine and extra protein—a gym bro’s dream — but also stands out for its packaging design that appeals to hypermasculinity by eschewing the colorful boxes that characterize most cereals on the market.

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Charl Kleinhaus’s life took a dramatic turn on May 12, 2025, when his plane landed at Dulles International Airport, in a suburb of Washington, D.C. He arrived with his two children and grandson. Waving an American flag and brimming with excitement, he had finally achieved his long-held dream: leaving South Africa.

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U.S. journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer, 74, has devoted much of his work to analyzing a century of U.S.-backed government overthrows around the world: from Hawaii to Iraq, examining the pattern of military intervention and exposing its long-term consequences. A former correspondent for The New York Times, Kinzer has established himself as one of the most vocal critics of U.S. interventionism.

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In another move in the campaign of retaliation that the Donald Trump administration has launched against its enemies, the Department of Justice has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the journalist who first accused Trump of sexual abusing her in a department store dressing room and who later won a case ordering the president to also pay her $83 million for defamation (he had called her, among other things, “mentally ill”).

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