Does this make us safer?

“Homeland Security investigators were diverted from cases involving child exploitation, drug trafficking, human trafficking and money laundering to investigate suspected noncitizen voting as the Trump administration intensified efforts to find evidence of election fraud, according to a sprawling ProPublica investigation.”

The study by ProPublica found that, starting in early 2025, Homeland Security Investigations reassigned more than 6,000 agents to immigration enforcement

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Will we be able to recover both the money and our democratic institutions?

“The Trump presidency has often looked more like a post-Soviet or postcolonial regime than like a first-world democracy. The Trump post-presidency may look the same. Trump has abused his office to enrich himself and his family in ways that are completely unprecedented—not only in the United States but also in the history of almost any peer democracy. Only Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s notoriously lawless former prime minister, was in any way comparable, and Berlusconi was sentenced to prison.”

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