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Text from article: “We can’t tell him every single thing that happens,” a current U.S. official said. The official noted that Trump’s briefings tend to draw better feedback from his aides when they focus on U.S. victories. Overall, the official said, the information Trump gets about the war tends to emphasize U.S. successes, with comparatively little detail about Iranian actions. One example came this month when five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were hit in an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to one of the current U.S. officials. Trump wasn’t briefed about the strikes, and he learned what had happened from media reports, the official said. When Trump inquired, he was told the planes weren’t badly damaged, the official said. The official said Trump reacted angrily behind the scenes to the news coverage. Publicly he posted on Truth Social calling coverage of the strike misleading and accusing media organizations of wanting the U.S. “to lose the War.”
Text from article: “We can’t tell him every single thing that happens,” a current U.S. official said. The official noted that Trump’s briefings tend to draw better feedback from his aides when they focus on U.S. victories. Overall, the official said, the information Trump gets about the war tends to emphasize U.S. successes, with comparatively little detail about Iranian actions. One example came this month when five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were hit in an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to one of the current U.S. officials. Trump wasn’t briefed about the strikes, and he learned what had happened from media reports, the official said. When Trump inquired, he was told the planes weren’t badly damaged, the official said. The official said Trump reacted angrily behind the scenes to the news coverage. Publicly he posted on Truth Social calling coverage of the strike misleading and accusing media organizations of wanting the U.S. “to lose the War.”
Text from article: “We can’t tell him every single thing that happens,” a current U.S. official said. The official noted that Trump’s briefings tend to draw better feedback from his aides when they focus on U.S. victories. Overall, the official said, the information Trump gets about the war tends to emphasize U.S. successes, with comparatively little detail about Iranian actions. One example came this month when five U.S. Air Force refueling planes were hit in an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to one of the current U.S. officials. Trump wasn’t briefed about the strikes, and he learned what had happened from media reports, the official said. When Trump inquired, he was told the planes weren’t badly damaged, the official said. The official said Trump reacted angrily behind the scenes to the news coverage. Publicly he posted on Truth Social calling coverage of the strike misleading and accusing media organizations of wanting the U.S. “to lose the War.”
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Text from article: Case in point: Miller just met with Texas state legislators and floated a truly extreme proposal. The New York Times reports that Miller discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the education of undocumented children, and asked the lawmakers why they hadn’t passed a bill limiting funding for education so it only goes to kids who are citizens or are lawfully present in the United States. This idea—denying public school to undocumented children—has mostly passed under the radar, but it’s a long-held dream of the anti-immigrant right. The basic aim is to destabilize the lives of undocumented families as another way to encourage them to self-deport. But there’s an even more pernicious ideological aim at work here. Getting a red state to attempt this would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe is not as well known as the other big civil rights rulings, but it’s momentous: It held that restricting public education this way would violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.
Text from article: Case in point: Miller just met with Texas state legislators and floated a truly extreme proposal. The New York Times reports that Miller discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the education of undocumented children, and asked the lawmakers why they hadn’t passed a bill limiting funding for education so it only goes to kids who are citizens or are lawfully present in the United States. This idea—denying public school to undocumented children—has mostly passed under the radar, but it’s a long-held dream of the anti-immigrant right. The basic aim is to destabilize the lives of undocumented families as another way to encourage them to self-deport. But there’s an even more pernicious ideological aim at work here. Getting a red state to attempt this would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe is not as well known as the other big civil rights rulings, but it’s momentous: It held that restricting public education this way would violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.
Text from article: Case in point: Miller just met with Texas state legislators and floated a truly extreme proposal. The New York Times reports that Miller discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the education of undocumented children, and asked the lawmakers why they hadn’t passed a bill limiting funding for education so it only goes to kids who are citizens or are lawfully present in the United States. This idea—denying public school to undocumented children—has mostly passed under the radar, but it’s a long-held dream of the anti-immigrant right. The basic aim is to destabilize the lives of undocumented families as another way to encourage them to self-deport. But there’s an even more pernicious ideological aim at work here. Getting a red state to attempt this would run afoul of a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which blocked states from denying public education to young people based on immigration status. Plyler v. Doe is not as well known as the other big civil rights rulings, but it’s momentous: It held that restricting public education this way would violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s enshrinement of equal protection before the law.
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Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
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Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
Headline: Commentary, national debt The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is the co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation.
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Headline and text from article: So, As It Turns Out, Brain-Dead, Morally Bankrupt, Rampant Incompetence Matters How do we know? Look around you. by David Rothkopf Mar 22, 2026 Pickett charged. France built the Maginot line. The Empire left a big honking hole in the side of the Death Star, which allowed it to be destroyed. The history of military stupidity could fill volumes. But never, never has anyone seen a combination of ignorance, incoherence, and incompetence as we have seen from Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and their Capitol Hill chorus of wingnut oompa loompas. I have long felt that one of the many flaws of the culture of Washington, DC—which, candidly, I see as responsible for many of this country’s ills—is that the least admired or discussed quality we seek in our leaders is management skill.
Headline and text from article: So, As It Turns Out, Brain-Dead, Morally Bankrupt, Rampant Incompetence Matters How do we know? Look around you. by David Rothkopf Mar 22, 2026 Pickett charged. France built the Maginot line. The Empire left a big honking hole in the side of the Death Star, which allowed it to be destroyed. The history of military stupidity could fill volumes. But never, never has anyone seen a combination of ignorance, incoherence, and incompetence as we have seen from Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and their Capitol Hill chorus of wingnut oompa loompas. I have long felt that one of the many flaws of the culture of Washington, DC—which, candidly, I see as responsible for many of this country’s ills—is that the least admired or discussed quality we seek in our leaders is management skill.
Headline and text from article: So, As It Turns Out, Brain-Dead, Morally Bankrupt, Rampant Incompetence Matters How do we know? Look around you. by David Rothkopf Mar 22, 2026 Pickett charged. France built the Maginot line. The Empire left a big honking hole in the side of the Death Star, which allowed it to be destroyed. The history of military stupidity could fill volumes. But never, never has anyone seen a combination of ignorance, incoherence, and incompetence as we have seen from Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and their Capitol Hill chorus of wingnut oompa loompas. I have long felt that one of the many flaws of the culture of Washington, DC—which, candidly, I see as responsible for many of this country’s ills—is that the least admired or discussed quality we seek in our leaders is management skill.
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