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NYTimes: The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been.
The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/opinion/border-patrol-ice-minneapolis.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
The Three Lessons of Minneapolis
****** NYTimes: ‘I Wouldn’t Say the Democrats Are in Good Shape’
‘I Wouldn’t Say the Democrats Are in Good Shape’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/opinion/democrats-trump-midterms-future.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
The Levers Trump Isn’t Using
Trump has “worked around the formal powers of the presidency more than through them, and his goal often seems to have been not so much to govern as to show force,” Yuval Levin argues:
The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians
“The Gilded Age saw an eruption of scandal and corruption that accompanied” and “enabled the transformation of the American economy alongside explosive changes in technology. Donald Trump’s Washington looks like the Gilded Age on steroids,” @wrmead writes:
Michael Sandel: How the Left Paved the Way for Trump | The Agenda
Michael Sandel: How the Left Paved the Way for Trump | The Agenda
How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/bernie-goetz-shooting-racial-resentment/685726/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTuJgl1Gm9nMjgXNc1B9TdY
How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
A notorious event in 1984 divided New Yorkers in ways that feel extremely familiar four decades later.
By Heather Ann Thompson