Republican Congressman Defends Call to Arrest Student JournalistRepublican Representative Andy Harris is defending his threat to have a student journalist arrested following a disastrous debate earlier this week. Baltimore TV station Fox 45 asked the Maryland congressman about how he flipped out at Capital News Service reporter Cat Murphy, a student at the University of Maryland, for filming him answering questions…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →GovernmentCulturecongressman defends threat to journalist
How Big Business Lost Its Big Bet on TrumpIn the run-up to this second Trump term, there were a lot of predictions, assumptions, extrapolations, and truisms that turned out to be very wrong. One of the most significant (and arguably among the most defensible) was that the money men would somewhat insulate us from the most extravagantly destructive of Trump’s initiatives—in effect, that the…The New Republic2d agoWhole story →GovernmentEconomytrump second term predictions
