Protesters attend a vigil for a man that was killed in a shooting involving ICE, on July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine.
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It’s been another bad week for Donald Trump—from the Strait or Hormuz to the streets where ICE has killed more people, to the scheduled Senate hearings on Todd Blanche. Harold Meyerson comments.
Also: Trump believes the teaching of history really matters—that’s why on July 4 he issued a 162-page attack on the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Yale historian Beverly Gage comments. Her new book is This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through US History.
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