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Trump 2024 vs. Project 2025

EARLY AND OFTEN UPDATED 9:51 P.M. Trump 2024 vs. Project 2025 The campaign denies anything to do with the blueprint for a second term, but his alumni are all over it. By Alec Dent https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-2024-vs-project-2025.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: The Heritage Foundation The Trump campaign’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is in a tough spot. Like many who have worked for Trump, she contributed to Project 2025, and she is being forced to attack the project she helped create. “Project 2025 is not related to our campaign and does not reflect official campaign policy,” she told me the same week Trump himself denounced the project as “ridiculous and abysmal.” She isn’t the only one. Stephen Miller, for example, is performing rhetorical gymnastics while attempting to claim he has “never been involved with Project 2025” despite his having worked on a training-program video ...

How Extremists Took Over Israel

The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law. h ttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html Ronen BergmanMark Mazzetti By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti May 16, 2024 This story is told in three parts. The first documents the unequal system of justice that grew around Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. The second shows how extremists targeted not only Palestinians but also Israeli officials trying to make peace. The third explores how this movement gained control of the state itself. Taken together, they tell the story of how a radical ideology moved from the fringes to the heart of Israeli political power. PART I. IMPUNITY By the end of October, it was clear that no one was going to help the villagers of Khirbet Zanuta. A tiny Palestinian community, some 150 people perched on a windswep...