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They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the ...

Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all goods ...

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

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A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...