Trump calls off Iran strikes, says a deal is near; tensions between Trump and Senate GOP continue as recess approaches; Progressive candidates' primary wins spark debate on midterm electability.
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On Tuesday, voters will choose between ex-congresswoman Cori Bush, or pro-Israel incumbent Wesley Bell The pastor of a historically Black church on St Louis’s north side, Rodrick Burton has watched with bewilderment as the congressional race in his district has drawn national attention not about the bloodshed in his community, but rather in Gaza. “As a pastor who’s had eight members murdered, violence over there is terrible,” Burton said of the conflict in the Middle East. Continue reading...
Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio, broke his silence about allegations of domestic abuse his daughter has made against Representative Max Miller.
The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him The pattern is by now all too familiar: with every power grab Trump tries – from a fraudulent speech about voter fraud to appeals to his supreme court to let him rig the midterms – a debate kicks off about whether these moves are signs of strength or of desperation. Maybe we keep getting caught in this debate because the question is badly posed. So much of what is distinctive about Trump’s governance during his second term can serve the consolidation of an autocratic regime and at the same time create particular vulnerabilities for the regime. We have to become better at identifying these weaknesses, as opposed to being shell-shocked by Trump’s brazenness every single time. Aspiring autocrats operate differently in the 21st century; in previous eras, they had little hesitation about unleashing violence and committing massive human rights violations. Today, they try to fool both domestic and international audiences into thinking that democracy and the rule of law still exist. The recently deposed Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was a master of this technique; he spent many years performing what he called “the peacock dance” to convince the European Commission (and chancellor Angela Merkel) that he wasn’t creating a kleptocratic autocracy. Jan-Werner Müller is a Guardian US columnist and a professor of politics at Princeton University Continue reading...