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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Trump administration’s ramped up attacks on Harvard and international students, the courts flirting with findings of contempt after the administration ignores and mocks court orders, and the ways the Trump tariffs and exemptions invite corruption and “swampiness.”
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Elisabeth Bumiller for The New York Times: Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’
Bob Bauer for Executive Functions (Substack): Harvard’s Complex Fight With Trump
Christopher F. Rufo for The Free Press: Christopher Rufo: The Right is Winning the Battle over Higher Education
Catherine Rampell for The Washington Post (Opinion): Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
Don Moynihan for Can We Still Govern? (Substack): The Attack on International Students
Lilia Luciano and Joe Walsh for CBS Evening News: Detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi tells CBS News he feared citizenship interview was “honey trap”
Evan Perez, Alayna Treene, Marshall Cohen for CNN: IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status
NPR Staff for NPR: Judge: ‘Probable cause’ to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
Steve Thompson and Katie Mettler for The Washington Post: Justice Department must provide details of attempts to return illegally deported man, judge says
Stephen I. Vladeck for The Atlantic: What The Courts Can Still Do To Constrain Trump
Andrew C. McCarthy for National Review: What the Abrego Garcia Dispute Is Really About
Ruth Marcus for The New Yorker (The Lede): Will the Supreme Court Stop Donald Trump?
The Editorial Board for The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): Trump, Abrego Garcia and the Courts
Jed Rubenfeld for The Free Press: No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling
Ed Kilgore for New York (Intelligencer): Trump Sees Defying Courts on Deportations as Good Politics
U.S. State Department: 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: El Salvador
Fareed Zakaria for The Washington Post (Opinion): The U.S. economy is for sale
Joseph Chinyong Liow, The Washington Post: Trump sees trade as a form of tribute. That will only isolate the U.S.
The Editorial Board for The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): The Lessons of Trump’s Tariff Exemptions
Jonathan Alter for OLD GOATS With Jonathan Alter (Substack): Trump’s Huge Tariff Exemption Grift
Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil for Reuters: Apple airlifted iPhones worth a record $2 billion from India in March as Trump tariffs loomed
Bryan Mena for CNN: Trump blasts Fed Chair Powell, saying his ‘termination cannot come fast enough’
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Kiuko Notoya for The New York Times: How Japan Built a 3D-Printed Train Station in 6 Hours
John: Kerry Breen for CBS News: Rat named Ronin breaks world record for sniffing out wartime landmines in Cambodia
David: Her Majesty/Su Majestad (TV Series on Amazon Prime Video)
Listener chatter from Lucy in Chicago, Illinois: Open Throat: A Novel, by Henry Hoke
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the implications of the White House cutting the wire services seat from the press pool to explicitly punish the Associated Press.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with author Adam Higginbotham about his new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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