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What the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech

Meta’s decision to stop fact-checking or moderating content on its platforms signals fealty to Donald Trump.

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Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet

“Donald Trump is a master of picking appointees for very senior positions who never would have gotten those jobs under anyone else,” the staff...

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A Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week

“There is no distinction between his personal grievances and his policy aims,” Evan Osnos says.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next

“We are up against perhaps the biggest, most malignant political operation in American history,” Whitehouse says.

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Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande

“You cannot pause a plane in midflight and expect that everything is going to be O.K.,” Gawande says. “That’s what they were trying to do...

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What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?

“The earlier the intervention, the earlier the mobilization, the earlier the forthright exercise of countervailing power, the better the prospect...

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Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool

“It's something that is at the top of the authoritarian playbook list,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “You know, go after the...

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