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US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white

Whiteness appears to be an official immigration credential in the eyes of the United States government.

The Conversation

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

Is United States President Donald Trump lurching toward decline and fall? Will he and his MAGA movement reprise Lyndon B. Johnson’s story, when the quagmire of the Vietnam War took the Democratic president out of the 1968 election and gave Republican Richard Nixon the opening he needed to defeat the…

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Most People Know Their Faces, Not Their Words—10 Quotes From Presidents on U.S. Money

Monday, February 16, is Presidents’ Day. It is a day many Americans take off, and, honestly, not many of us take the time to reflect...

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Trump’s Greenland ambitions could wreck 20th-century alliances that helped build the modern world order

Make Denmark angry. Make Norway angry. Make NATO’s leaders angry.

The Conversation

Congress’ power has been diminishing for years, leaving Trump to act with impunity

A year into US President Donald Trump’s second term, his record use of executive orders, impoundment of government spending, and military interventions in Venezuela and Iran have sparked criticisms from Democrats and even some Republicans. They say he is unconstitutionally sidelining Congress.

The Conversation

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1921 to 1933

Every President from 1921 to 1933 successfully defended presidential removal power at will.

Reason

Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1901 to 1921

Every president from 1901 to 1921 successfully defended presidential removal power at will.

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Why the surprise over Trump’s Venezuela coup? US presidents promise isolation – and deliver war

Last week’s events in Caracas come in a long line of American interventions. The White House has awesome power and is never shy of using it, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Today in Supreme Court History: December 28, 1856

12/28/1856: President Woodrow Wilson's birthday. His administration would initiate the prosecutions under the Sedition Act that gave rise to Schenck… The post Today in Supreme Court History: December 28, 1856 appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

The Democratic Party Is Offering a False Choice Between Socialism and Technocracy

By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.

Reason

Funerals at Washington's National Cathedral tell the story of a nation

When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of figures memorialized there, in a church that tells the story of America on hallowed ground

The Independent UK

The Art of the Presidential Health Cover-Up

Since long before Biden and Trump, presidents have been going to great lengths to keep their medical problems from the public.

Reason

Investors are betting big on 'prediction markets' Kalshi and Polymarket—will the gamble pay off?

The two startups generated huge buzz by accurately predicting the 2024 election results. Their young founders still face long odds.

Fortune

How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security

The turning point was the New Deal.

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Which Us President Had The Highest IQ? Here Are The Top 12, Ranked

Discover which US president had the highest IQ! See the top 12 presidents ranked by their estimated IQ scores.

The Conversation

The Waldorf Astoria: what the history of this legendary hotel says about today’s crisis of the American establishment

After eight years of renovations, the Waldorf Astoria in New York has reopened and is welcoming new guests. The Waldorf – as most people know it – introduced room service, velvet ropes, red-velvet cake and Thousand Island dressing. It gave its name to a salad, a chain of lunchrooms, as…

Reason

Have Presidents Grown Too Powerful To Be Removed From Office?

Joe Biden showed that the 25th Amendment doesn't work. Donald Trump showed that impeachment is broken too.

Fortune

Damage Elon Musk faces from his Trump feud is just getting started

Musk’s companies are dependent on the government—and ultimately Trump—in one way or another.

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The 2025 Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture: "Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories" by Joel Alicea

One of the greatest honors of my career has been receiving the inaugural 2022 Edwin Meese III Originalism Award. My… The post The 2025 Edwin Meese III Originalism Lecture: "Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories" by Joel Alicea appeared first on Reason.com.

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Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war

As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting 137 Venezuelans he says are associated with a Venezuelan gang.

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What will Trump say in his speech? Don’t ask Grover Cleveland - Roll Call

They share a win-loss-win record, but the state of the union has changed. From tariffs to executive power, the two presidents diverge.

The Conversation

How allies have helped the US gain independence, defend freedom and keep the peace – even as the US did the same for our friends

Make Canada angry. Make Mexico angry. Make the members of NATO angry.

The Conversation

As Trump abandons the old world order, NZ must find its place in a new ‘Pax Autocratica’

Donald Trump is moving rapidly to change the contours of contemporary international affairs, with the old US-dominated world order breaking down into a multipolar one with many centres of power.

The Independent UK

A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad

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Four Presidents Who Boycotted Successors' Inaugurations

Learn about the tradition of attending successors' inaugurations and the rare instances of presidents boycotting them in American history.

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