Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened.
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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John E. Sonntag
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Trump Is Sabotaging the Midterms. The Supreme Court Must Stop Him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Sabotaging the Midterms. The Supreme Court Must Stop Him.
The country has built a system in which Americans can have confidence. President Trump is trying to wreck it.
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"A group representing more than 800 former employees of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday sounded the alarm over the health consequences of data centers." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/c...
A.I. Data Center Pollution Poses Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
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"The City of Denver, Latino civil rights organizations and government watch groups asked a federal judge on Thursday to block the Trump administration from allowing armed federal immigration agents to serve warrants at polling sites." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Denver Sues to Block Armed ICE Agents at Voting Sites
The City of Denver and civil rights groups argued that sightings of ICE agents at polling places are having a chilling effect.
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"The Department of Justice sent threatening letters to at least 30 top election officials across the country, expanding its efforts to gain access to private voter data and election records." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
D.O.J. Escalates Threats to States in Battle for Election Records
The department sent letters to at least 30 states demanding they retain election records, an outgrowth of President Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud.
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"The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday once again prevented Missouri from using a congressional map in November that was redrawn to give Republicans an advantage in the midterm elections." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Supreme Court Again Blocks Republican-Backed Missouri Voting Map
The ruling deferred to the state’s Supreme Court, which had invalidated G.O.P.-friendly district lines, saying voters must first have an opportunity to approve the map in a statewide referendum.
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"Though administration officials described the checks as refunds to consumers, it will return a disproportionate share of the fees to people with incomes of more than four times the federal poverty level, or around $65,000 for a single person." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
Trump Announces $500 Rebates for Some Obamacare Customers,Weeks Before the Election
The White House plans to send the money to people in 30 states who have higher incomes and are insured under the Affordable Care Act.
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"The proposal to issue $5,000 checks to every adult American, which echoes other proposals by the Trump administration that have not materialized, also could have a significant impact on the U.S. economy." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Trump Wants to Give Out $5,000 Checks. It Would Cost More Than $1 Trillion.
The president’s idea to hand every American adult a “dividend” if Republicans keep control of Congress likely would need congressional approval, exacerbate the deficit and lead to a rise in inflation,...
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"The Iran-backed Houthi militia captured a strategic Red Sea port city on Thursday, according to two Yemeni officials, in a sweeping ground offensive that could give the group greater control over an important shipping route and further destabilize energy markets." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/w...
Houthis Seize Strategic Red Sea Port, a Major Victory for Iranian Ally
The Iran-backed militia routed Yemeni government forces in Mokha, putting the group in a stronger position to attack ships in a crucial waterway for global trade.
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"We’re not living after the 1980s. We’re living in them, trapped in the invisible architecture built by a clutch of executives, politicians and conservative advocacy groups (that was later abetted by a generation of business-friendly Democrats)." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
Opinion | Blame Ronald Reagan
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
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JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
Opinion | JD Vance Doesn’t Want to Help Married Parents. He Wants to Hurt Single Mothers.
Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.
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At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Adds New Claim to His Disputed Role After Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
At 9/11 Tribute, Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him Away From Unstable Building After Attacks
President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.
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"...the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, a tiny anti-establishment party, suddenly wields outsized influence. Its handful of newly elected state lawmakers could give power to Germany’s far right for the first time since 1945." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/w...
This Tiny Anti-Establishment Party May Put Germany’s Far Right in Power
Germany’s far right won a state election but fell short of a majority. Its path to power depends on a small populist group that defies traditional labels.
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Here’s How the Postal Service Could Refuse to Deliver Your Mail Ballot www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
How Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Would Work
The plan, which two dozen states have challenged as unconstitutional, puts in place new requirements about who can receive mail ballots.
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Saudi Oil Exports Plunge as Spread of War Shuts Off Shipping Routes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/b...
Saudi Oil Exports Plunge as Spread of War Shuts Off Shipping Routes
With few good options for safely shipping oil, Saudi Arabia’s exports have fallen to a 13-year low.
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"One thing is missing from President Trump’s midterm gathering for Republicans this week: any semblance of official party business that forms the backbone of traditional quadrennial conventions." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
Why Trump’s Republican Midterm ‘Convention’ Isn’t a Real Convention
No nominations or formal party business will be happening, as they would at a traditional presidential convention. But the made-for-TV speeches will look much the same.
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"President Trump plunged the United States even deeper into a series of costly global conflicts this week, creating new economic hazards that have rattled financial markets, risked another rise in prices and unnerved some Republicans ahead of the 2026 election." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/b...
Trump’s Midterm Pitch Clouded by Iran War and Canada Tariffs
A worsening trade war and a spike in oil prices could create new economic risks as the president prepares to rally Republicans for the midterms.
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"The bond market issued a swift rebuke to the Trump administration’s latest attempt on Wednesday to lower borrowing costs, as the 10-year Treasury yield rose to its highest level in roughly three years." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/b...
Bond Market Rebuffs Treasury’s $6 Billion Plan to Reduce Borrowing Costs
The 10-year yield rose to its highest level in three years, suggesting investors were underwhelmed by the details of a move to buy back government bonds.
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"Ukraine now faces a problem with no quick solution. Its air defenses, in particular Patriot missile interceptors, are dwindling, and Mr. Putin is planning to make the most of it. After more than 50 months of this war, the next few could be decisive." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
Opinion | Ukraine’s Defenses Are Dwindling. Putin Will Make the Most of It.
After more than 50 months of this war, the next few could be decisive.
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"As the 25th anniversary of the attacks approaches, it is important to set the record straight so that we can avoid self-inflicted mistakes and renew our efforts to prevent a similar attack from happening again." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
Opinion | We’ve Forgotten the Most Important Lessons of 9/11
The world has lost track of the truth about Al Qaeda.
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"There is a cavernous void to be filled in American politics: No one has offered a vision for a future that a decisive majority of Americans can believe in. Before Democrats can change America, they must first change themselves." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
Opinion | Voters Have Spoken. Why Aren’t Democrats Listening?
Less than two years after a catastrophic election, the Democratic brand remains unpopular, and the party is still in the grip of a divisive identity crisis.
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"A day after summoning the American ambassador for a formal rebuke, Iceland’s leaders on Tuesday publicly condemned a social media post from President Trump showing the American flag covering their nation along with Greenland, Canada, Mexico and Caribbean states." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/w...
Iceland Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Provocative Trump Map
After voting against talks to join the European Union, Iceland is reacting forcefully to a slight against its sovereignty.
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"After a seven-year run marked most recently by attacks from the Trump administration, Lonnie G. Bunch III announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down as secretary of the Smithsonian." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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"With only weeks to go before the midterms, the Trump administration continues to try to press forward with plans to restrict voting by mail, even as its new rules remain frozen by the courts." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Is Coming to a Head. Here’s What to Know.
The administration’s plan to screen mail-in ballots remains blocked as the Supreme Court considers challenges to new U.S. Postal Service ballot rules.
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"The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a federal database to monitor the citizenship status of voters ahead of the midterm elections." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voter-Screening Tool
Voting rights organizations had challenged a Trump administration overhaul of a government database, arguing it could be used to disenfranchise eligible voters.
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"Britain,Canada and France on Tuesday announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a symbolic step by three once-staunch allies illustrating Israel’s deepening isolation after the devastating war in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/w...
Israeli Allies Ban Trade With Settlements as U.K. Cites ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Britain, Canada and France on Tuesday announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with Britain saying Israel had “turned a blind eye” to violence against Palestinians.
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"These are President Trump’s instincts, yes. But before they were his, they were Roy Cohn’s." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
Opinion | Somewhere, Roy Cohn Is Smiling
Trump needed only one teacher.
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"His enormous strength is his greatest weakness. And his campaign aides fret not that the water is choppy but that the sailing’s too smooth." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
Opinion | Is Roy Cooper Winning in North Carolina? Not if You Ask His Aides.
Roy Cooper’s durable lead in a crucial Senate race is causing jitters.
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