Tag: Corruption
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The Trump Loyalty Question
More than 140 years after the Pendleton Act began dismantling the spoils system, nurses and firefighters applying for federal jobs are facing “loyalty tests,” being asked how they will help advance the president’ priorities.
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“Integrated Military” Ballroom
Donald Trump appears to be building against a court’s schedule. His term ends at noon on January 20, 2029. One may well watch the construction and wonder: which deadline does he think is real?
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Trump Nepo Government
Would-be kings assemble royal courts and hand out titles to family and friends.
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Trump Confession
A government that funds its friends and defunds its opponents is using public money as an instrument of loyalty.
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Trump Foreign Election Fund
Where the United States used to try to export the ideals of democracy, now it has put right wing influence on a grant schedule.
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Trump Sells Wall Street Faster Access
The president is selling a subscription service to milliseconds of access.
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Trump Plane
Our nation celebrates its birthday this week while the president flies in a gift from a royal court.
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UFC White House Fight
These are the things we will look back on and try to explain — how the country’s treasured spaces were taken, one by one, by a single man to mark his birthday.
