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Students on Thursday protested the president's attacks on Harvard, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House's actions.
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The world's two largest powers are closer than ever to a full economic break. Why neither the United States nor China want to blink, and what it will take for China to survive the trade war.
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Trump has treated the long-anticipated agreement as a key component of U.S. efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, joins us as President Trump's defiance of the courts is pushing the United States toward a constitutional crisis, with multiple judges weighing whether to open contempt proceedings against his administration for ignoring court orders. On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg criticized officials for continuing to stonewall his inquiry into why planes full of Venezuelan immigrants were sent to El Salvador last month even after he ordered the flights halted or turned around midair. Boasberg noted in his order that Trump officials have since "failed to rectify or explain their actions," giving the administration until April 23 to respond. This comes as Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador but was blocked from seeing or speaking to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father who was sent to CECOT on the March flights in what the Department of Homeland Security has admitted was an "administrative error." Both the Trump administration and the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have refused to release and return Abrego Garcia. This week, federal Judge Paula Xinis said the administration had made no effort to comply with the order, and said she could begin contempt proceedings. "The government is providing no information, not even the most basic factual information about what's been happening," says Warren.
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Columbia University professor Marianne Hirsch's new article in The Forward is titled "I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime. Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is right out of their playbook." She tells Democracy Now! that seeing footage of the ICE arrests of Khalil and Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk "brought back these feelings of terror that I had as a child." Hirsch grew up in Romania under the authoritarian regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu and says she sees parallels between the climate of fear she was raised in and the repression of speech and protest on campuses today. Hirsch, who is Jewish, condemns the "anticipatory capitulation" of universities, like Columbia, to the Trump administration's threats to pull funding and says "the reason for this was never to fight antisemitism, but it was to decimate academia."
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