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More universities are disinviting commencement speakers who might challenge students’ ideas, unraveling an apolitical tradition

Delivering a university commencement address used to simply be a unique kind of honor. Speakers stand before a podium, wearing a traditional graduation cap and robe, and offer graduates life lessons and inspirational words as they enter the next phase of life.

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Why is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?

No one has more at stake than Kamala Harris – who has ‘signaled’ support for its release without saying so publicly

The Guardian - US

Republicans would rather self-destruct than save themselves from Trump

As the president’s popularity withers, the party has no will to stage an intervention against him

The Guardian - US

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'Hilariously Retarded': Rubio Criticised for His Gift to Pope Leo During Vatican Visit

Senator Marco Rubio's gift of a crystal football to Pope Leo during a Vatican visit has sparked criticism and social media backlash, highlighting cultural differences in diplomatic exchanges.

International Business Times UK

UK politics: Starmer avoids privileges committee inquiry into vetting of Peter Mandelson – as it happened

MPs rejected a Conservative party proposal for the prime minister to face a parliamentary inquiry into his appointment of Peter Mandelson

The Guardian - UK

Trump sidelined Congress’ authority over war on Iran – and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives set April 21, 2026, as the date to hear from and question top Pentagon officials Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, and Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson, head of U.S. Africa Command, about the war in Iran. But Republican legislators put…

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Texas judge rejects push to let churches make political endorsements

A group of Texas churches and the IRS agreed to nix the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofits from endorsing candidates. A Trump-appointed judge said no.

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Trump faces a ‘personal Vietnam’ in Iran

He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, Vietnam

The Guardian - US

A sweeping biography of Robert McNamara wins $50,000 book prize

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize

The Independent UK

Disgust over ‘frightened’ Republican lawmaker going anonymous to warn of Trump triggering Iran ‘doomsday scenario’

A GOP lawmaker was called out for remaining anonymous to criticize Trump on Iran

The Independent UK

Trump broke his promises to pursue this unwinnable war. Britain must not follow him into the abyss

The bombing of Iran is deeply unpopular. Despite the Tories’ urgings, Keir Starmer must not further embroil the UK in this disaster, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Yes, States May Prosecute ICE Agents for Misconduct

Plus: An unsettling comparison between the Iran War and “Lyndon Johnson going into Vietnam.”

Reason

House Republicans are secretly comparing Trump’s Iran attacks to ‘LBJ going into Vietnam’: report

‘Most Republicans want clear objectives, clearer than they are now,’ one GOP lawmaker said

The Independent UK

Trump’s attack on Venezuela without alerting Congress tests limits of executive power

Trump’s audacious arrest of Maduro marks a conspicuous break with convention, even as previously observed by the president himself

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Deception and lies from the White House to justify a war in Venezuela? We’ve seen this movie before in run-ups to wars in Vietnam and Iraq

Are Americans about to be led again into a war based on misrepresentations and lies? It’s happened before, most recently with the wars in Iraq and Vietnam.

The Conversation

Comedians and kings: is Donald Trump reviving the ancient crime of lèse-majesté?

Donald Trump has a problem with comedian Seth Meyers and it fits a consistent pattern of hyper-sensitivity to criticism and satire.

The Independent UK

Q&A: A look at the National Guard's role as Trump seeks to deploy troops in Oregon and Chicago

President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president’s authority and who controls the Guard

The Independent UK

Robert Caro reflects on childhood as he receives New York Historical's Historians' Laureate Medal

Robert Caro has received the first-ever Historians' Laureate Medal from The New York Historical

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Before Trump Had Elon Musk, Nixon Had Howard Phillips

Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?

Euronews

Fed independence ‘hangs by a thread’ after Trump moves to oust Lisa Cook

Efforts to oust Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook and install allies could erode the bank’s autonomy, with consequences for inflation, market confidence and everyday borrowing.

The Guardian - US

Medicare and Medicaid turn 60 – and face historic cuts decades in the making

Republicans enacted the largest cuts to healthcare in US history, and fulfilled decades of conservative rhetoric

Texas Observer

How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints

As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of the campaign battlefield.

The Conversation

ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief

It was a surrender widely foreseen. For months, rumors abounded that Paramount would eventually settle the seemingly frivolous lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump concerning editorial decisions in the production of a CBS interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in 2024.

Fortune

Texas summer camp hit by flood has been in the same clan for generations and has served the state's top families

Relatives of prominent Texas politicians, including President Lyndon Johnson, have attended the camp over the years.

The Guardian - US

‘You open the fridge – nothing’: renewed threat of US hunger as Trump seeks to cut food aid

Critics warn cuts to Snap program would throw millions of Americans – such as Jade and her daughter Janai – back into food insecurity

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