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From Nat'l Ass'n of Diversity Officers in Higher Ed. v. Trump, decided today by Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Albert Diaz, joined by Judges Pamela Harris and Allison Rushing:
In the first days of his second term, President Donald J. Trump issued two Executive Orders ["Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing" and "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity"] that directed...

The episode kicks off by unpacking this week's Jeffrey Epstein witch hunt and why certain moral panics catch fire so fast. The conversation then turns to the comeback of the "r" word, how DoorDash culture is reshaping everyday life, and why accusations...

President Donald Trump was reelected, in large part, because voters trusted he would improve the economy. Now public confidence in Trump's economic plan is slipping.
In April 2025, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that 55 percent of Americans disapproved of how Trump was handling the economy, while only 39 percent approved. The latest edition of the poll, published Thursday, found that 59 percent of Americans now...

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2024, he said he'd "restore law and order." The White House is now taking a victory lap on this campaign promise.
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt touted a January report from the Council on Criminal Justice, which found "that the murder rate across America's largest cities plummeted in 2025 to its lowest level since at least 1900," according...