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Stephen Miller
Jan. 4, 2018
Nobody Seems to Know What Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Wall’ Would Look Like Years after Trump started talking about a border wall, congressional negotiators trying to cut a spending deal still aren’t sure how it’s defined.
Jan. 2, 2018
Why a Government Shutdown Is Looming Again in January Another month of GOP rule, another month of stressful and arbitrary deadlines.
Oct. 5, 2017
This White House Aide Is Trying to Sabotage Trump’s DACA Deal The Breitbart wing of the White House is pushing for Trump to demand radical cuts to legal immigration in exchange for showing Dreamers his mercy.
Sept. 13, 2017
Trump Administration Considers Cutting Refugee Cap to Lowest in Decades After reducing the refugee quota to 50,000 in 2017, the Trump administration may go even lower in 2018.
Aug. 22, 2017
Could Trump Hold Dreamers Hostage for Border-Wall Funding? The administration may be forced by the courts to cancel protection for Dreamers. So it could be time for a grand bargain to get border-wall funding.
July 14, 2017
780,000 Dreamers in Danger of Deportation Trump may be pushed by a lawsuit to keep his 2016 promise to kill DACA and deport Dreamers — or they could become a pawn for nativists in Congress.
June 30, 2017
Trump Planning Steel Tariffs To the Horror of Most of His Cabinet Returning to one of the “America First” preoccupations of his campaign, Trump is on the brink of imposing steel tariffs on China and other countries.
May 17, 2017
Stephen Miller Writing Big Speech on Islam Trump Is Delivering in Saudi Arabia It’s a very bad idea for Donald Trump to presume to lecture Muslims about Islam. Involving his firebrand aide in that project is even worse.
ideology
Apr. 14, 2017
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right Ten years later, the case looms large in U.S. political culture. For starters, it launched the careers of Richard Spencer and Stephen Miller.
Apr. 7, 2017
Trump’s Syria Strike Is Latest Sign of Steve Bannon’s Waning Influence Two sources close to Bannon say he argued against the strike, on the grounds it didn’t serve America’s interests.
Mar. 8, 2017
Trump Team’s Words Could Sabotage the Second Travel Ban, Just Like the First The revised order fixed a lot of legal problems—but the White House can’t fix the paper trail identifying it as an intended “Muslim ban.”
Mar. 1, 2017
White House Undermining Own Case for the Urgency of a Travel Ban Next time Team Trump tells a court its immigration policies are a matter of immediate national security, its failure to stick to that story may hurt.
Feb. 21, 2017
When Will Trump Announce a Policy Agenda? Maybe Never. Trump has an opportunity to lay out a detailed policy agenda on February 28 to a joint session of Congress — which needs the guidance. But will he?
Jan. 30, 2017
What Is Stephen Miller’s Job, Anyway? The culprit in the travel-ban chaos seems to be this young policy adviser. But it’s hard to say why he’s in the position to do this kind of damage.
Jan. 30, 2017
Radicalizing American Politics Is Part of the Game Plan for Team Trump Steve Bannon and company seem to see growing fear and anger on the left as a useful thing.
