June 29, 2018 Must Reads

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1. “Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Supreme Court, a move that gives President Trump the chance to replace the court’s pivotal justice and dramatically shift the institution to the right, setting up a bitter partisan showdown on Kennedy’s successor.”   [emphasis added]  Here is the Washington Post  announcement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-kennedy-the-pivotal-swing-vote-on-the-supreme-court-announces-retirement/2018/06/27/a40a8c64-5932-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html Our readers perhaps…

June 22, 2018 Must Reads

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1.On Wednesday, Trump signed an Executive Order, allowing families to remain together while in detention. However, that Order may allow immigrants to remain in custody indefinitely, creating a problem with the Flores decree that forbids this [see below, section 2. C]. (The administration will go to court, says The New York Times, to modify that decree.) Moreover, the…

June 15, 2018 Must Reads

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*********************************** Breaking News: Trade War with China Begins This morning, Friday, June 15, The New York Times reports that, “The Trump administration said on Friday that it would move ahead with imposing a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of Chinese products that are imported into the United States, threatening to escalate what had primarily been a…

June 13, 2018 Must Reads

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************************************* SPECIAL REPORT: G-7 MELTDOWN ************************************* Here we are again with a special edition of our weekly news update. Though the big story this week is surely the Kim-Trump summit—and from the point of view of the beginning of a long process of peace-making, it is—we offer a special edition on the G-7 Summit, which will have…

June 8, 2018 Must Reads

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***READ ARCHIVED RECENT MUST-READS AND LEARN MORE ABOUT INDIVISIBLE DUPAGE AT OUR WEBSITE: INDIVISIBLEDUPAGE.COM***   Here we are again with our weekly news update. We know that you are busy people, and you probably do have a lot of news to sift through, online, on social media, on news feeds. But we will bring you a…

June 1, 2018 Must Reads

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*************************************************** For news of the trade war with our allies, announced on Thursday, see item 9 below ***************************************************   1. We begin with a follow-up to last week’s discussion of racism in Trump’s America. So: did Donald Trump really and truly call some immigrants “Animals”? According to The New York Times on May 16 he did, and with brio. “President…