Trump ‘slush fund’ echoes scorned 19th-century spoils system, academics say

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary $1.776 billion fund to pay off allies and others who say they have been wronged by past administrations has drawn widespread condemnation by opponents, including some Republicans, who characterize it as an act of brazen corruption. But the Trump administration’s push to reward its supporters also harkens back to an earlier era […]

N
Trump Has Brought American Paramilitary Violence Home

Hours after Renee Good was gunned down on a Minneapolis street by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent inside her Honda Pilot, Aurin Chowdhury, the council member for Minneapolis’s Twelfth Ward, told me the city was under siege. “We’re already in a mass, _mass_ militarized occupation,” Chowdhury said, referring to the thousands of armed federal agents who had invaded the Twin Cities a…

Read more →
Page 1