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WASHINGTON — In a case that could chill freedom of speech and adversely affect misinformation research and fact-checking, lawyers representing academics, journalists and researchers argued in federal court that a 2025 Trump administration visa policy should be reversed.  The lawsuit targets a policy that restricts foreign officials and people who the U.S. government says are “complicit in censoring Americans” from entering the United States or residing in the U.S. legally, potentially including deportation.  The State Department has said five people were “sanctioned” under the policy: Thierry Breton of France, a former European commissioner for internal markets and digital services; Imran…

What Xi wants from Trump-and Trump might get from Xi. Source link

Trump's China Policy Not What Everyone Expected Source link

President Trump’s economic policies on trade, energy and manufacturing position the U.S. to negotiate with China from a place of unprecedented strength. Source link

The US Intelligence community estimates that Iran maintains nearly all its missiles used to control the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump has claimed that the Iranian military is nearly defeated.  Senior officials speaking with The New York Times are alarmed that US intelligence agencies have assessed that Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile positions near the Strait of Hormuz.  Past reports have revealed the US intelligence community assesses that Iran retains 70% of its pre-war missile stockpile, 75% of its launchers, and 90% of its underground missile sites.  The reports run counter to the narrative…

We are trained to see war as a failure of diplomacy. It is often a failure of perception long before diplomacy begins. We usually arrive at violence too late in the story. By then it appears inevitable, as if it emerged fully formed from bad decisions or bad actors. What disappears in that framing is the longer accumulation of interpretation and unresolved historical injury that makes certain outcomes feel not only possible, but justified. This is not an attempt to soften accountability or replace politics with psychology. It is an attempt to take seriously something international relations often brackets out:…

The Senate in a 54–45 Wednesday vote confirmed Kevin Warsh as the chair of the Federal Reserve.Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) lead the Democratic attack on confirming Warsh, alleging that Republicans would regret aiding “President Trump’s Fed takeover by installing Mr. Warsh.”  Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Warsh will be sworn in later this week to replace Jerome Powell, who intends to remain on the Board of Governors after his eight-year term concludes. Warsh insisted throughout his confirmation hearings that he did not make promises of rate cuts to President Donald Trump, but maintained that the…

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), who says, “Capitalism…is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental, and social cost. That is not a redeemable system.” Give me a break. Yes, capitalism is often ugly. It brings out greed in some, exacerbates wealth differences, creates pollution (creating an actual need for government regulation, which capitalism funds), and leaves some people behind. But nothing else works! Nothing else makes life better for most people, including the poor! “Capitalism is moral, precisely because success comes…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum Juan Cole After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps…

Last week’s fatal shoving of 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of Manhattan subway steps is an outrage-inducing sign of New York City’s steep decline in transit safety. Source link