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HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - The Untold Story

Trump’s throwback to ‘Department of War’ signals a retreat from modern world into past glory

ANALYSIS: Trump’s latest rebranding exercise only makes sense if you don’t know much about what the Pentagon actually does, writes Andrew Feinberg

The Independent UK

Trump's push to change Department of Defense to 'War Department' would turn back the clock to WWII

President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about what to call the military agency

The Independent UK

Why has Trump renamed the US Department of Defense to Department of War?

Although the US President’s decision to rename the Department of Defense is a highly controversial one, the government arm was actually called the Department of War until 1947.

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Trump says he and Secretary Hegseth want to take ‘Department of Defense’ back 80 years

The Department of Defense was created in 1949 by combining the Army, Navy and Air Force departments

The Independent UK

‘Trump is a wrecking ball’: behind the president’s $200m plan to build a White House ballroom

The president, who made his money in construction, takes on one of the biggest White House projects in over a century

The Guardian - US

How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security

The turning point was the New Deal.

Reason

‘So embarrassing’: Badly made-up Donald Trump compares self to Harry Truman dropping a nuclear bomb on Japan

Fire that make-up artist!

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Trump compares himself to Truman after Iran attack

Donald Trump has compared himself to Harry Truman following the United States' bombing of three of Iran’s nuclear sites last month (21 June).

The Independent UK

Trump just became first US president to drop the F-bomb on live TV. But he’s not the first to be caught cursing

Donald Trump may have crossed a new line but he isn’t the only potty-mouthed president, a tradition that dates all the way back to Abraham Lincoln

The Independent UK

‘God spared you’: Sychophantic Mike Huckabee implores Trump to go on war footing

Talk of war might also split MAGA.

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The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing the first United States national flag

The Independent UK

Overruling Trump's Tariffs Should Be an Easy Decision for SCOTUS

Plus: A love letter to the heavy metal band Slayer.

Reason

Michael McConnell on the Tariff Cases and their Significance

A leading conservative legal scholar explains why striking down Trump's IEEPA tariffs is vital to protecting the separation of powers.

Reason

Trump focuses on size over safety in push for Qatari plane

ANALYSIS: The president wants to make Air Force One a ‘palace in the sky,’ says Janet Bednarek

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Trump’s vision for Air Force One will turn it from the ‘Flying White House’ to a ‘palace in the sky’

Since President Donald Trump excitedly announced that he would be accepting a US$400 million plane from the Qatari government to serve as the next Air Force One, even members of his own party have expressed alarm.

The Independent UK

AP WAS THERE: Journalists chronicled the Nazi surrenders and end of World War II in Europe

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week

Reason

Trump's Tariffs Violate the Constitutional Separation of Powers

The Supreme Court has ample precedent to rule against Trump’s trade war.

The Conversation

Christian Zionism hasn’t always been a conservative evangelical creed – churches’ views of Israel have evolved over decades

During confirmation hearings, Mike Huckabee, President Donald Trump’s nominee as ambassador to Israel, told senators that he would “respect and represent the President,” not his own views. But the Baptist minister’s views on the Middle East – and their religious roots – came through.

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Ukraine will need major rebuilding when war ends − here’s why the US isn’t likely to invest in its recovery with a new Marshall Plan

President Donald Trump wants Ukraine to repay the United States for helping to defend the country against Russia’s invasion.

The Conversation

A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for more than 72 million people, including low-income Americans and their children and people with disabilities. It also helps foot the…

The Independent UK

What is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798? The wartime law that Trump invoked to speed up deportations

‘Overbroad authority’ that’s been used to intern immigrants may be subject to ‘staggering abuse,’ law and policy institute says

The Guardian - US

The pink protest at Trump’s speech shows the Democrats aren’t coming to save us

The general reaction is that this was yet another stunning example of how spineless and performative the Democrats are

Salon

Where did U.S. public health go wrong?

The field’s failure to integrate medical services in the mid-20th century set the stage for its current troubles

Kiplinger

Presidents and Social Security: How Presidents Have Impacted America's First Social Insurance Policy

Since its inception in 1935, Social Security has expanded its mission and reach. Here is how each president from Roosevelt to Trump has impacted Social Security.

The Independent UK

William E. Leuchtenburg, eminent presidential historian and Ken Burns consultant, dies at 102

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