Preview: President Donald Trump is set Wednesday to begin the biggest gamble of his nascent second term.

Preview: CoreWeave shares rallied nearly 42% on Tuesday and bounced back from a lackluster second trading day on the public markets.

Preview: Trump's reciprocal tariffs follow other import duties he has already announced, including tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico and industry-specific tariffs.

Preview: Eli Lilly is suing Strive Pharmacy and Empower Pharmacy for compounding tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Zepbound and Mounjaro.

Preview: As the U.S. president weighs increasing tariffs on imports, economists find that prices across many categories could rise as a result.

Preview: President Donald Trump's secondary tariffs are "unprecedented and legally questionable," according to the consulting firm Rapidan Energy.

Preview: CNBC's Jim Cramer sees five issues with President Donald Trump's potential 20% blanket tariffs, including their effect on inflation and domestic manufacturing.

Preview: JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are serving as lead underwriters in Circle's IPO, according to the prospectus.

Preview: U.S. President Donald Trump last Wednesday announced sweeping 25% tariffs on cars "not made in the U.S.," sending shockwaves through global automakers.

Preview: Hims & Hers is adding Zepbound, Mounjaro, and the generic injection liraglutide to its platform.

Preview: • Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies

Preview: The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems.

Preview: A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, a lawyer for the company said.

Preview: • DeSantis goes to Washington, a place he once despised, looking for support to take on Trump • Opinion: For the GOP to win, it must ditch Trump • Chris Christie mulling 2024 White House bid • Analysis: The fire next time has begun burning in Tennessee

Preview: • 'A major part of Ralph died': Aunt of teen shot after ringing wrong doorbell speaks • 20-year-old woman shot after friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York, officials say

Preview: Newly released body camera footage shows firefighters and sheriff's deputies rushing to help actor Jeremy Renner after a near-fatal snowplow accident in January. The "Avengers" actor broke more than 30 bones and suffered other severe injuries. CNN's Chloe Melas has more.

Preview: It's sourdough bread and handstands for Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Preview: A tiny intruder infiltrated White House grounds Tuesday, prompting a swift response from the US Secret Service.

Preview: An arrest warrant has been issued for controversial Biden administration official Sam Brinton in connection with a second alleged theft at an airport in Las Vegas. Brinton, who works for the Department of Energy, was already placed on leave after he allegedly stole a woman’s luggage at Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport late last month. ...

Preview: Inside the Illinois State Capitol sits a display of several religious exhibits for the holiday season, which includes a Jewish menorah, the Christian nativity scene, and the “Serpent of Genesis” from the Satanic Temple, as reported by local radio media. Consisting of a leather-bound copy of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus’ “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” — which ...

Preview: The latest release of the “Twitter Files” Thursday evening revealed that leftists at the highest level of the company, who have all since been fired or been forced to resign, targeted one of the most popular right-wing accounts on the platform with repeated suspensions despite the fact that they secretly admitted that she did not ...

Preview: The second installment of the so-called “Twitter Files” was released Thursday evening after the company turned over documents to a journalist who then started to publish the findings on the platform. Musk released internal company communications through journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday about the company’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story ...

Preview: The transgender community has turned on a once revered surgeon specializing in sex change surgeries after a patient posted graphic photos of an allegedly botched operation. Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, a Miami-based surgeon specializing in double mastectomy surgeries for transgender-identifying patients, has been heavily criticized for performing the elective surgery on minors. She has also earned ...

Preview: Video emerged Thursday afternoon of Brittney Griner being swapped on a runway for convicted Russian terrorist Viktor Bout after Democrat President Joe Biden agreed to the trade. The video showed Griner, who is wearing a red jacket, walking across the tarmac with three men while Bout walked toward her with a man standing next to ...

Preview: After a woman claimed to be the daughter of a serial killer in a recent interview, a search of the supposed location of buried remains has turned up nothing. Federal, state, and local authorities did not find any evidence or remains after scouring the earth for several days in Thurman, Iowa, a small town just ...

Preview: A FedEx contract driver strangled a 7-year-old girl after hitting her with his van in Texas late last month, according to arrest warrant documents. Tanner Horner, a 31-year-old from Fort Worth, has been arrested and charged with capital murder of a person under 10 years old and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Athena Strand, ...

Preview: Disabled veteran Congressman Brian Mast (R-FL) took issue with fellow Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) over the way she chose to transport her American flag while she was moving from one office to another. Mast, who lost both legs and his left index finger in 2010 when he stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) while ...

Preview: Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed President Joe Biden Thursday for releasing notorious terrorist Viktor Bout in exchange for Brittney Griner. Griner, who has a criminal record in the U.S. stemming from a domestic violence incident several years ago, was arrested in Russia back in February on drug charges, ...

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Preview: Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a plane crash that claimed the life of the sole pilot onboard early Thursday evening in Mill Township.

Preview: The Trump administration reported that there were just 7,180 southwest border crossings during March, compared to the sometimes 7,000 daily crossings under Biden.

Preview: The body of missing Los Angeles firefighter Connor J. Lees was recovered off the coast of Long Beach, California, months after his disappearance.

Preview: On Monday, officials revealed the identities of three U.S. soldiers who were discovered dead in Lithuania after their M88 armored vehicle submerged in a swamp.

Preview: A San Diego migrant shelter is reportedly closing its doors and reverting to its original purpose after the number of asylum seekers dramatically drops.

Preview: Six people are facing felony charges for allegedly kidnapping a man and beating him with a metal bat inside an Ohio hotel room for a week, according to police.

Preview: A woman in Florida was arrested after she allegedly pointed a pellet gun at two teens who she thought were fishing in her backyard and threatened to "blow their heads off," police said.

Preview: An individual has been charged after allegedly vandalizing a Tesla with a swastika. Video reportedly shows the SUV owner confronting the suspect.

Preview: Several pedestrians have been injured after a box truck plowed into them Tuesday afternoon, according to Boston police.

Preview: The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against six individuals and seven entities allegedly involved in a money laundering network that supports the Sinaloa cartel.

Preview: Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65  The New York Times Josh Brolin and Don Winslow Remember Val Kilmer: ‘A Brilliant Actor and a Good Man’  Variety Val Kilmer, 'Top Gun' Actor, Dies at 65  People.com Actor Val Kilmer, star of 'Batman Forever', dies at 65, NYT reports  Reuters Val Kilmer, star of ‘Batman Forever’ and ‘Top Gun,’ dies at 65  KSAT

Preview: Trump and Musk's backing wasn't enough to flip Wisconsin Supreme Court  NPR Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority  AP News Elon Musk bet it all on a judicial election in Wisconsin. He just lost  The Sydney Morning Herald Musk keeps giving select voters $1 million checks. How is this legal?  CNN Liberal wins first major 2025 statewide battleground election in race turned into Trump-Musk referendum  Fox News

Preview: Sen. Cory Booker breaks Senate record with marathon 24-hour speech protesting Trump and Musk  ABC News Booker concludes record 25-hour speech against Trump, Musk, marking the longest ever on the Senate floor  Fox News Who is Cory Booker, the Democrat from New Jersey holding the Senate floor?  AP News Cory Booker sets record for longest continuous speech on the Senate floor  Los Angeles Times Is Cory Booker’s Historic ‘Filibuster’ Doing Anything to Stop Trump?  New York Magazine

Preview: Republicans win Florida special elections in Trump strongholds by narrower margins than in 2024  AP News Florida Republican defeats Democrat in US House special election  BBC Florida Sixth Congressional District Special Election Results 2025: Weil vs. Fine  The New York Times Republicans win special elections for two key House seats in Florida  The Guardian Former DeSantis official defeats Dem for Matt Gaetz's House seat  Fox News

Preview: Trump poised to unveil more tariffs on ‘Liberation Day’ — here’s what to expect  New York Post Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs are about to be announced. Here’s what to expect  CNN Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners  Reuters Trump aides draft tariff plans as some experts warn of economic damage  The Washington Post When Presidents Ask Americans to Suffer for the Cause, Voters Make Them Pay for It  Politico

Preview: Report: Waltz used Gmail for official work  Axios Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say  The Washington Post Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House - WSJ  WSJ Scoop: Hakeem Jeffries slams Mike Waltz as "totally unqualified" over Gmail report  Axios Waltz held sensitive talks on Russia, Ukraine on Signal, WSJ reports  The Kyiv Independent

Preview: Trump cuts hit Seattle office  The Seattle Times ‘Humiliating and degrading’: HHS employees learn of layoffs when their ID badges stop working  Federal News Network ‘Significant downsizing’ happening at NIOSH in Morgantown: UMWA  WBOY.com HHS layoffs hit Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors and disabled  NPR 'The work that is done here is to keep everybody safe': Hundreds of CDC workers laid off in Pittsburgh region  WTAE

Preview: Another big law firm cuts a deal with White House to avoid sanctions  Politico Trump Announces Deal With Doug Emhoff’s Law Firm  The New York Times Former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s law firm latest to strike deal with Trump  Los Angeles Times Willkie Farr Becomes the Latest Big Law Firm to Strike Deal With Trump  WSJ Trump says Doug Emhoff’s law firm latest to strike a deal with him  The Washington Post

Preview: After 9 Republicans rebel, House Speaker Johnson fails to stop proxy voting effort led by new moms in Congress  PBS Trump agenda upended after GOP rebellion shuts down House floor  Fox News Johnson Fails to Kill Bipartisan Measure to Allow Proxy Voting for New Parents  The New York Times House cancels rest of votes for week after GOP floor rebellion  Yahoo Nine GOP House members defy Speaker Mike Johnson on new parent proxy voting measure  The Washington Post

Preview: Trump administration says it mistakenly deported Salvadoran migrant  The Washington Post U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’  The New York Times ICE Can’t Bring Back Man Deported to El Salvador Prison in Error, Agency Says  WSJ An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison  The Atlantic Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites  Yahoo

Preview: Democrats scored a critical win Tuesday in their first major test at the ballot box since President Trump took office in January. The elections came amid growing anger over the Trump’s administration’s immigration and economic policies, its handling of free speech, and the federal cuts made under Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The...

Preview: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Tuesday said Democrats "have to take some responsibility" for the current state of the country, during his first interview after setting a new record for the longest Senate floor speech in history. In an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Booker said he was inspired to speak on the...

Preview: Jill Underly was projected to prevail in her reelection for Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, beating challenger Brittany Kinser, according to Decision Desk HQ. Though the race is technically nonpartisan, Underly was backed by the state Democratic Party and Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), while Kinser, an education consultant who has advocated for school choice,...

Preview: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (R-S.C.) prior record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the late senator made history by trying to block civil rights legislation in the 1950s. “To be candid, Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of, just,...

Preview: More than 80 of Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) former campaign staff praised his record-breaking speech on the Senate floor. “As alumni of your 2020 presidential campaign, we write today to express our gratitude for your response over the last 25 hours to the moment of crisis we are currently in,” the staff wrote in a...

Preview: Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a moderate Republican, congratulated her colleague, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), on setting the new record for longest Senate floor speech on Tuesday. “Whether you agree with him or not, the past 24+ hours was what most people think a filibuster actually looks like,” Murkowski wrote in a post on X, shortly...

Preview: A group of House Republicans rebelled against GOP leadership’s effort to block a vote on allowing proxy voting for new parents and delivering a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) The gambit drew the ire of House Democrats, who bashed the "outrageous" move as several Republicans bucked their party’s leadership. Nine Republicans — led by...

Preview: Susan Crawford was projected to win an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, keeping the high court’s 4-3 liberal majority intact and delivering a blow to Elon Musk and President Trump, according to Decision Desk HQ. Crawford, a Dane County circuit court judge, defeated conservative candidate Brad Schimel, a former GOP state attorney...

Preview: The White House played an April Fools’ Day prank on journalists inside the press room. Around 6 p.m. EDT, the White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers announced over the loudspeaker that there was a “dinner lid until 8:47” p.m., signaling an unexpected later night of work. “You have a dinner lid until 8:47,” Rogers...

Preview: Wisconsin voters were projected to pass a ballot measure that amends the state Constitution to require photo identification in order to vote, according to Decision Desk HQ. Wisconsin lawmakers referred a ballot measure to voters that would mandate that “a qualified elector may not vote in any election unless the elector presents photographic identification issued...

Preview: Anyone discounting it is "thinking magically," warned the constitutional scholar.

Preview: Donald Trump's press secretary was slammed as the "resident minister of propaganda" on social media.

Preview: The president has one consistent strategy when it comes to accountability: avoiding it.

Preview: Jason Stanley, an expert in fascism, pointed to a "grave sign about the future of academic freedom."

Preview: "Late Night" writer Amber Ruffin crashed Seth Meyers' show to cut his "divisive" joke short after she was dropped as the dinner's headliner.

Preview: Critics called out conservatives for being “silent” over the musician’s stuntman-esque suit alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Preview: The posts are jokes, but the current economic uncertainty is all too real, an economist told HuffPost.

Preview: The MAGA influencer said she is selling the car because the Tesla mogul has reduced his child support payments.

Preview: Prosecutors say Justin McMillan and Justin Colon intentionally turned off their body cameras while breaking into a residential building and stole money while on duty.

Preview: "I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something," the actor told EW.

Preview: Shares of memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc. jumped in extended trading Thursday after the company’s fiscal second quarter showed that it is still seeing a boost from AI, with its highest-capacity memory products surging in growth.

Preview: The battle over the agency centers around what’s taught in K-12 schools, but one of its main functions is sending out funds to schools and colleges.

Preview: FedEx cuts its profit outlook for the third time in a row, thanks to “continued weakness and uncertainty in the U.S. industrial economy.”

Preview: Shares of Nike Inc. moved higher after hours on Thursday after the sneaker maker reported fiscal third-quarter results that beat Wall Street’s estimates, as the company tries to focus more deeply on the needs of athletes.

Preview: March 20 is the 25th anniversary of the 2000 dot-com bust.

Preview: Wondering what fixing the program will look like? A new report gives us a clue.

Preview: U.S. government debt rallied Thursday, pushing yields lower across the board, on the Federal Reserve’s base-case view about the likely transitory nature of tariff-driven inflation.

Preview: Crude futures notched back-to-back gains on Thursday, with prices finding support from growing tensions in the Middle East that raise the risk of supply disruptions in the oil-rich region.

Preview: March Madness numbers to know include $3.1 billion in wagers and nearly $5 million in earnings for one player.

Preview: Be careful what you wish for, Mr. President.

Preview: Republican James Patronis has won the special election for Florida’s 1st District to take the seat of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, NBC News projects.

Preview: The race for the reliably deep-red district — once represented by Trump's national security adviser — was unusually competitive.

Preview: North Carolina voted for Donald Trump three times, but many in the state are now angry over his cuts to Veterans Affairs services.

Preview: Crawford's win is likely to have far-reaching impacts on hot-button issues like abortion and voting rights in the battleground state.

Preview: Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey spent TK hours on the Senate floor in a non filibuster speaking in opposition to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's spending cuts.

Preview: Senator Cory Booker talks with Rachel Maddow about holding the Senate floor for a record-breaking 25 hours and 4 minutes to raise attention to the perils of Donald Trump's agenda and inspire American activism against that agenda as many of his constituents have taken to regular public protests on their own.

Preview: Democrats on Capitol Hill are feeling pressure from their base to fight Trump. Angry Democratic voters are flooding town halls held by lawmakers of both parties.

Preview: The federal government has admitted that ICE deported a Maryland man with legal status to El Salvador due to an “administrative error.”

Preview: Trump's cruel memes of migrants help him justify his dehumanization of them and violation of their rights through his deportation program.

Preview: Wired magazine reported that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency plans to replace the mainframes that power the agency’s mission and rebuild their functionality on new servers in a new programming language

Preview: Gabe Perreault headed to New York and checked in to the same hotel Brennan Othmann has been staying at since his recall from AHL Hartford.

Preview: Of all his birthday games, Robinson said, this one ranked as his best.

Preview: The New York Sirens put a boost into their faint playoff hopes with a 1-0 win over the first-place Montreal Victoire on Tuesday night.

Preview: “This is a BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS, MAYBE THE BIGGEST WIN OF THE NIGHT,” President Trump said of the success of the ballot measure.

Preview: Shedeur Sanders will be the center of attention at Colorado’s Pro Day on Friday, and Giants head coach Brian Daboll will not be there.

Preview: New York state prisons will release some inmates early because the system does not have enough corrections officers.

Preview: At a time when the Yankees would take competence from Warren, that made his effort Tuesday night a win within the team’s first loss of 2025.

Preview: Actor Val Kilmer, best-known for his roles in "Batman Forever" and "The Doors," died in Los Angeles at the age of 65, the New York Times reported late on Tuesday.

Preview: The shortstop will field, too, though Tuesday provided a rare example of his glove also not looking its best out of the gate.

Preview: The deranged lovers reportedly share multiple children together.

Preview: Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.

Preview: Energized against the new Trump era, and against Elon Musk, Democrats pulled off a crucial judicial victory in Wisconsin and cut into Republican margins in two Florida congressional races.

Preview: The Republicans who were elected on Tuesday to fill seats left empty by Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz had President Trump’s backing.

Preview: The state has required voters to use photograph identification for nearly a decade, but an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution was seen as making it more difficult to roll back that rule.

Preview: The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.

Preview: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filing.

Preview: Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.

Preview: Another round of “deferred resignation” offers is part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up effort to rapidly downsize the government.

Preview: The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.

Preview: In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family and former White House officials about clemency.

Preview: In Mar-a-Lago, this is surely a popular opinion. In America, it isn't.

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Preview: Because this situation is unprecedented, there is little case law to indicate whether the DOJ is correct that migrants lose their rights at CECOT.

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Preview: They have already succeeded in fracturing many of the world’s leading climate alliances.

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Preview: From today's decision by Judge Sarah Russell (D. Conn.) in Doe v. Yale Univ.: John Doe brought this action after… The post No Pseudonymity for Yale MBA Student Suing Over Discipline for Alleged Use of AI on Exam appeared first on Reason.com.

Preview: If true, then these tariffs would be the biggest peacetime tax increase in American history.

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Preview: The ballot proposition would effectively require health insurers to cover all treatments at any price.

Preview: For an administration that likes to show off successful assassinations, the Trump team has been surprisingly tight-lipped about the Houthi commanders they targeted.

Preview: A new meta-analysis finds “no significant effects of social media abstinence interventions on positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction.”

Preview: The escalating dispute threatens Mexican farmers—and American consumers.

Preview: Donald Trump is determined to make everything from Canadian whiskey to Mexican avocados more expensive. Can anyone stop him?

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Preview: After Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Wednesday, Florida communities are emerging to see its destruction with hopes and plans to recover.

Preview: Downgraded to a tropical storm, what had been Hurricane Idalia powered across Georgia and the Carolinas on Wednesday evening.

Preview: The 81-year-old Republican Senate minority leader struggled to answer reporters' questions in Kentucky, requiring help and drawing questions about his health

Preview: Nebraska volleyball set a women's sports attendance record Wednesday night as 92,003 fans descended on Memorial Stadium to watch the match vs. Omaha.

Preview: At least 73 people died when a fire ripped through a multi-story building in Johannesburg overtaken by homeless people, authorities said Thursday.

Preview: As the storm moves away from the shore, it can cause an additional life-threatening hazard: inland flooding. Georgia and the Carolinas are at risk.

Preview: Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford (C) reacts with supporters after her victory in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. After a long, expensive, and closely watched race, Wisconsin went to the polls on Tuesday, and voted in a new state Supreme Court justice. Susan Crawford, a liberal county judge backed by Democrats across the US, defeated the conservative candidate, Brad Schimel, who was backed by the national GOP. In a conversation for Vox’s daily newsletter Today, Explained, I asked politics reporter Christian Paz to break down the big race and its impact. Here’s what he had to say. (Our conversation was edited for length and clarity.) So, tell me about what happened in Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has a seat that’s opening up because one of the Democrats is retiring. (The state’s Supreme Court is technically nonpartisan, but there are “liberals” whom Democrats support and “conservatives” whom Republicans support.) Right now, Democrats currently have a one-seat ideological majority on the court, and Tuesday’s race was about which party would have the majority for the foreseeable future. Tuesday night, it quickly became clear that would be the Democrats.  For people living in Wisconsin, the chance to decide the ideological makeup of the court was a big deal. Nationally, though, the race became important for a few other reasons. One, this was the first major statewide race happening in a swing state, or really any state, since Trump’s inauguration. Democrats did poorly in swing states in the 2024 election, so this race is seen as a test of whether Democrats can still win races. Two, we’re about 10 weeks into Trump’s second term, so this race was viewed as a referendum on the Trump administration so far. Three, this race was also a referendum on Elon Musk’s power and influence. He managed to make the race in Wisconsin about himself, by spending tens of millions of dollars in support of Schimel, and by testing the limits of campaign finance rules, finding as many ways as possible to offer people money to pay attention to the race, including by giving away a million dollars to voters. He’s poured millions of dollars into canvassing, and even went to Wisconsin to hold a rally on Schimel’s behalf. Finally, this election gives us a new data point to try to answer a question political scientists have wrestled with for a long time: Are there two electorates? Conventional wisdom suggests the answer to that question is yes, that there are lower propensity voters who only turn out in presidential elections, and then there are higher propensity voters who are very tuned into politics who turn out in every election, be it presidential, midterm, or special.  However, political polarization and the level of loyalty Donald Trump inspires has some wondering whether that still holds. Tuesday’s result helps suggest that it might. This is an off-cycle race, and because of that, some political commentators saw this contest as favoring Democrats a little.  Last year, Kamala Harris performed particularly well with voters who said that they followed news closely, the classic high propensity voter. Again, high propensity voters tend to reliably vote in non-presidential elections, and the thinking was, those same Harris voters might help Crawford. And it seems like they did. There are other races coming up this year, and midterms next year. Does Wisconsin tell us anything about those? We shouldn’t put too much stock in one race. That said, you could argue Susan Crawford’s win makes some kind of blue wave next year appear a little more likely. There are a few factors that made this a somewhat unique case for Democrats, which makes it a little difficult to draw broad conclusions.  As I mentioned, the fact that this was an off-cycle election probably helped Democrats, and there’s another unique factor that may have helped too. Elon Musk wasn’t the only person pouring in money; wealthy Democrats did too, as did grassroots donors. That’s in part because this was the only big race going on; if you’re a liberal donor or a fundraiser, where else can you send your money? That won’t be the case in the midterms next year. That said, Crawford’s win does buttress conventional wisdom. Political science would tell us that you can’t be an unpopular president with an unpopular agenda, leading an unpopular party, and flip a seat in a statewide race like this. And Republicans did fail to flip this seat. That failure could have some implication for next year’s midterms. Those elections tend to favor the party out of power, with voters trying to use them to put a check on the incumbent administration. If the other races coming up this year — like Virginia’s gubernatorial race — shake out like the race in Wisconsin, Democrats may decide their best bet is to just try to ride an anti-Trump, anti-Musk, anti-status quo anger to midterm victory. The result is also a huge warning sign about the power of Elon Musk. Last year, a lot of people ridiculed his canvassing efforts on behalf of the Republicans, and his funding of external groups outside of the political party system to turn out voters. Then Trump won, and his strategy suddenly looked good.  Wisconsin suggests there are limits to the idea that the world’s richest man can pour money into politics to influence minds, making voting essentially a financial transaction, and it will pay off.

Preview: Guards process men who were deported to El Salvador by the US. | El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images In mid-March, President Donald Trump invoked an almost-never-used federal law, claiming that it gives him the power to deport many immigrants at will with minimal or no legal process to determine if these deportations are lawful. The text of that statute, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, does not give presidents the power Trump claims. For the moment, at least, a lower court order blocks Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation; that order is still in effect, although there is ongoing litigation about whether the Trump administration defied it by sending dozens of Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador after the lower court ordered the planes carrying these immigrants to be turned around. Now Trump wants the Supreme Court to halt the lower court order and effectively allow him to resume deportations without any meaningful review, and without having to prove the immigrants targeted by his proclamation have actually done anything wrong. The case, which is known as Trump v. J.G.G., is before the Court on its “shadow docket,” a mix of emergency motions and other matters which the justices often decide after only cursory review of the case. A decision on the case could come any time in the next few weeks. In J.G.G., Trump’s lawyers make three arguments that, when combined, would give him virtually unchecked authority to remove any noncitizen from the United States.  First, Trump claims the unprecedented authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act during peacetime, and against a nonstate actor — in this case, Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang that originated in Venezuela. That law, which does give the president sweeping authority to remove foreign nationals when properly invoked, only applies during a “declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government,” or during a military “invasion or predatory incursion” of the United States. Congress — the only branch of government that can declare war — has not declared war on Venezuela, and the alleged presence of civilian criminals in the United States is not a military operation. Also, the Alien Enemies Act only applies to military actions by a “foreign nation or government.” Tren de Aragua is not its own nation, nor does it control the government of Venezuela. Second, Trump’s lawyers argue that the immigrants challenging his proclamation may only bring their case in Texas federal court, under a legal procedure known as a “habeas” proceeding, which typically can only be used by a single individual to challenge their own detention.  That matters for two reasons. Federal cases brought in Texas appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a far-right court that routinely interprets the law in creative ways to benefit right-wing causes and the Republican Party, something likely to put anyone trying to stop a deportation at a disadvantage. Additionally, if challenges can only be brought on an individual basis, it may no longer be possible to obtain a broad court order blocking his entire proclamation. Third, even if an immigrant targeted by Trump could convince the Fifth Circuit to shield them from deportation, they are unlikely to ever get that chance. As Judge Patricia Millett, one of four lower court judges who’s already heard the J.G.G. case, explains, the administration’s position is that once Trump’s proclamation goes into effect “it can immediately resume removal flights without affording Plaintiffs notice of the grounds for their removal or any opportunity to call a lawyer, let alone to file a writ of habeas corpus or obtain any review of their legal challenges to removal.” If the Court were to accept this third argument, Trump would be able to deport people so quickly that, by the time a lawyer or judge learns they were deported, it will be too late to do anything about it. Trump’s peacetime invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is illegal The Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three times in American history: during the War of 1812 and during both world wars. In all three instances, Congress had formally declared war. It’s likely that presidents have been reluctant to use this power in the past, even during other wars, because the authority provided by the Alien Enemies Act is extraordinarily draconian. When properly invoked, the law permits the federal government to arrest, detain, and remove “all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized.” So during a declared war with Germany, the president may order nearly all German citizens removed from the United States, regardless of whether those German nationals took any aggressive or criminal action whatsoever. Trump now claims that he can use this law during peacetime to target alleged members of Tren de Aragua. Even setting aside the fact that the Alien Enemies Act only applies to foreign nations or governments — and Tren de Aragua is neither — there appears to be no legal authority whatsoever supporting Trump’s claim that this law can be used against a foreign gang engaged in ordinary criminal activity.  In its brief to the justices, the Trump administration claims that Tren de Aragua’s alleged presence in the United States constitutes a “predatory incursion” under the Alien Enemies Act. But the only source Trump’s lawyers cite to support this claim is a 1945 trial court decision that quotes President John Tyler (who became president in 1841) using the term “predatory incursion” to refer to military raids during a war between Mexico and the then-Republic of Texas. So this 1945 opinion offers no support for the proportion that a “predatory incursion” can be committed by civilians during peacetime. And, in any event, it’s notable that the only legal source Trump’s lawyers could come up with is an 80-year-old decision by a single, low-ranking judge. The J.G.G. plaintiffs’ brief, by contrast, quotes from numerous founding era dictionaries and other historical documents that use this term exclusively to refer to a military raid, including a letter from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, which used “predatory incursion” to refer to a British raid on American military supplies in Virginia. Trump’s proclamation, in other words, relies on a wholly novel interpretation of the Alien Enemies Act, one that posits it can be used in peacetime, despite what the text of the law says. And his lawyers did not find any support whatsoever for this new interpretation in over 200 years of American legal history. Trump’s attempts to cut off judicial review are also meritless Perhaps recognizing that its interpretation of the Alien Enemies Act is unprecedented, the Trump administration spends the bulk of its J.G.G. brief raising procedural objections to the lower court’s order blocking Trump’s proclamation, particularly its claim that this proclamation can only be challenged in habeas proceedings in Texas. Habeas proceedings typically must be brought in the jurisdiction where the prisoner is held. The Trump administration incarcerated the J.G.G. plaintiffs in Texas, so it claims that their suits must be brought in Texas federal court. However, habeas proceedings are a way — often the only way — for someone in federal prison to challenge their detention. And the plaintiffs in J.G.G. do not challenge the government’s ability to detain them while a valid removal case against them proceeds. They simply challenge the Trump administration’s attempt to remove them without due process under the Alien Enemies Act. And the Supreme Court has held that habeas is not the right remedy when a plaintiff does not challenge their detention. As the Court said in Skinner v. Switzer (2011), there is no case “in which the Court has recognized habeas as the sole remedy, or even an available one, where the relief sought would ‘neither terminat[e] custody, accelerat[e] the future date of release from custody, nor reduc[e] the level of custody.’” That decision means Trump’s attempt to shunt any challenge to his proclamation into individual legal proceedings, where the individuals bringing those proceedings can be deported before they can even speak to their lawyers, should have no merit. If one of the J.G.G. plaintiffs also want to challenge their detention, that case may need to be brought in Texas, but the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down a broader challenge to the Alien Enemies Act proclamation cannot be squared with Supreme Court precedent. Additionally, a different federal immigration law cuts against Trump’s claim that immigrants challenging the Alien Enemies Act proclamation must be brought in individual habeas suits. The Immigration and Nationality Act generally provides that it lays out “the sole and exclusive procedure for determining whether an alien may be … removed from the United States.”  This law, moreover, gives immigrants a variety of procedural rights, such as the right to claim asylum. It does permit expedited proceedings against some immigrants, including those that commit serious felonies, but even those noncitizens are entitled to notice and a hearing before they are removed from the country. And this law undercuts the administration’s argument that it can summarily deport people. Of course, any legal analysis of any Supreme Court case involving Trump must come with a caveat. This is the same Court that ruled over the summer that Trump can use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes, so there is no guarantee that these justices will follow existing law. Nevertheless, the law — as it is understood now — is quite clear that Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to cut off due process for immigrants during peacetime.

Preview: More than 250 suspected gang members arrive in El Salvador by plane, including 238 members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang and 23 members of the MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by the US on March 16, 2025. | El Salvador Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Today my colleague Nicole Narea and I are focusing on the Trump administration’s admission that it wrongfully sent a migrant to a Salvadorian mega prison — a reminder of the danger of suspending due process. What’s the latest? The administration admitted yesterday that it made an “administrative error” when it deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia — one of more than 100 people sent in March to a Salvadorian prison that is a “legal black hole” with documented human rights abuses. The administration says it’s unable to bring Garcia back from foreign soil, despite an immigration judge ruling in 2019 that Garcia could stay in the US pending further proceedings. How did this happen? Trump invoked an 18th-century wartime powers law to deport Garcia and others who his administration accused of gang ties. A judge ordered Trump to halt those deportations mid-flight, but the administration did not. As a result, the migrants were denied due process — deported before their cases were legally resolved.  Is this an isolated incident? The Trump administration concluded some migrants were gang members based on criteria that included tattoos and clothing, the New York Times reported yesterday. Those criteria have resulted in multiple cases where non-gang members were quite possibly swept up. What’s the big picture? It’s possible that, in time, some of these men will be proven criminals. Garcia, for example, has been accused — but not convicted — of ties to the gang MS-13. But that’s beside the point: In a functioning justice system, we use due process to first adjudicate guilt, and then levy punishment. That’s partly why a federal judge ordered the deportation flights halted to begin with: to give the legal system time to figure out what rights these men did or didn’t have. The Trump administration, however, defied that order, and now it has imposed an extreme punishment it says it can’t take back — all while we’re still trying to figure out who these men are and what they did. And with that, it’s time to log off… I am not, by any stretch, a knower of poetry, and so I’m lucky that, once long ago, I came across this poem: “The Summer Day.” I find it helpful on days like today, when it’s easy to feel exhausted or ungrateful. It’s a reminder to use our time well, particularly in a last line both haunts and inspires me: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Thanks for reading. I hope you have a good night, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.

Preview: Men with MAGA hats gather in Freedom Plaza during the “Million MAGA March” in Washington, DC, in 2020. The boys are alt-right.  At least that’s what polling and voting data suggests. Men under 25 were nearly 20 percent more likely to vote for Donald Trump than women in that age group in the 2024 election, revealing a gender gap far larger than those in older generations. Democrats have been freaking out about their young men problem. They’re starting podcasts. They’re talking about sports. They’re cursing more.  And increasingly they’re courting Hasan Piker: a 33-year-old Twitch streamer some are calling the “Joe Rogan of the left.” Piker livestreams for eight hours or more nearly every day. He has millions of followers, a group that skews young and male. Piker is a self-described leftist. He’ll vote Democrat as the lesser of two evils, but he’s been very critical of the party, especially over its handling of Israel’s war in Gaza. He’s overtly political — but also an entertainer. During a recent streaming session, Piker bantered about his squat form and riffed on Andy Samberg’s face, before pivoting to a long interview with New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndon.  The message is equal parts self-improvement and how to fight for a better world, emphasis on fight. His message to his followers — and to Democrats seeking a way forward — is to get more antagonistic in pushing for what they believe in.  “You should fight back,” Piker told Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram. “You should be like, ‘No, this is what I believe.’ Why do you not want to give health care to poor people? Like, what’s wrong with you?” Piker’s conversation with Today, Explained ranged from his protein intake, to Lyndon B. Johnson’s thoughts on race, to the “warm blanket” of right-wing media. Make sure you listen to the whole thing at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  What’s your protein intake? Is there a lot of protein going on? Yes, I consume about 200, at a minimum, 220 grams of protein every day. Amazing. I mean, it’s alright. I eat a lot of chicken. I love chicken. So this is fine. Just straight white chicken breasts every day. Oh! How much do you feel like being kind of yoked is like part of your draw and your persona? I think it initially in leftist circles is a…it’s a negative. People look at me and immediately assume that I am a right-wing dude. At this point it’s hard to say that because obviously most people know what my politics are. But if you don’t know who I am from afar, you think like, “Oh, that’s like an alpha bro potentially right kinda guy.”  My demeanor also is like that too. I’m just authentically myself. I do not like putting on a show. I don’t even think I’d be capable of lying and being inauthentic for 10 hours a day in real time — especially as I’m responding in real-time to both news that is happening, but also then to people who are trying to argue with me about it. It’s just who I am. There’s not much I can do to change it. And I don’t even want to change the way I behave. What is your read on why this male optimization, (getting, you know, really beefed up) has a left-right divide? And what is that divide about? There’s a bunch of different reasons for it, but I think, like a lot of these guys, they don’t think too hard about politics and then they find themselves trapped in this right-wing bubble. And then I think that they just like to associate that with self-improvement and self-help with that in general. Self-help inherently is not like a leftist or a right-wing thing.  But it does seem like a lot of the content creators that are promoting that and presenting themselves as that are definitely, at the very least, right-wing. But I think part of it is because that’s just the domineering attitude in general, if you don’t really think about things too much and you kind of find yourself susceptible to social conditioning. And that does have a right-wing slant, the whole commonsense narrative. It’s like, “Oh, this is just common sense…two genders: commonsense.” You didn’t put a lot of thought into it. That’s just what you learned your entire life. So of course you kind of slot yourself into the right-wing in that regard. I guess the other reason is because self-improvement can turn into hyper-individualism very quickly, which is also another incredibly American attitude in general, but that’s what it is. You try to couple self-improvement with helping others, which feels really critical in this moment where a lot of people feel lost, but that leads to them becoming more inward, introverted, even angry. How do you feel like you’re fairing in that battle right now to not just improve yourself inside and out, but to be more considerate of those around you? I don’t know. I’m just…I’m a stubborn dude. I’m not doing deliberate gym content specifically because I want to penetrate the alpha bro fitness space. It’s just something that I have always liked to do organically. And, the content creators that I watch from this space are people that I end up collaborating with or have at least some mutual interests.  It feels like we’re at a pretty important juncture for young men, right? And there’s a lot of people telling them to regress, to be expecting women to take their last names, and to stay at home and to make lots of babies and to not ask too many questions. And then, I don’t know, it feels like you’re on the other side of that fight trying to tell men to grow. I don’t tell people like, “Women have to stay in the kitchen,” or “Women don’t have to stay in the kitchen.” I’m just more like: Treat women as individuals, you know? Just like you would your sisters or your mother with respect as like a normal human being. Let them do whatever they want to do. That’s my attitude on it at least. I think that the reason why the right is so successful at capturing the attention of young men in particular is because they’re taking a lot of the worst aspects of the hopelessness that I was just talking about — that everyone in the next generation is experiencing. And right-wing commentary is like a warm blanket that you can surround yourself with that says: “You’re right to be angry and you should be angry at vulnerable populations. You should be angry at people who have no power over you. And then if you dominate them a little bit, then that gives you a little bit of power, right?” It reminds me of the LBJ quote about telling the lowest white man that he is higher than any Black man. “If you can convince the lowest white man, he’s better than the best colored man. He won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” I think what you’re getting at here is the vision that the right is selling to young men is very compelling, because it doesn’t necessarily involve growth or progress. It just affirms what they already believe or maybe what their fathers and their fathers before them believed. But you seem to do something special which is you create an alternate vision for young men, for young people, what keeps you hopeful? The one area of hope that I have right now is the momentum that I’ve seen from AOC and Bernie Sanders, who are going out and speaking in front of tens of thousands of people, people that may have not even voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, right? Like people from all different walks of life — both Democrats and maybe even some not Democrats — coming together and being like, “Yeah, everything is messed up. We need to do something about it.” So there’s definitely a lot of interest amongst the American working class to to change things. Some people have associated that change with Donald Trump. I find that kind of change to be worse because I think Donald Trump is further breaking the system that was broken previously prior to this. The fact that some people recognize that there must be a difference, there must be a different mechanism for change. And they find Bernie to be a vehicle for that is somewhat positive, but it entirely depends on where it goes from here. Does the Democratic Party turn around and go, “Okay, we got to do that. Enough with this, you know, third-way neoliberalism.” This kind of [neoliberal] attitude is ridiculous. I think it’s academic, it’s smug, it’s elitist, and it’s wrong. It’s demonstrably wrong. And I think people don’t want to hear it anymore. So, I hope the Democratic Party recognizes that, and then more and more people run for office and say, “No, I don’t want corporate donations. I’m done with the billionaires and millionaires. I’m done with you. I’m done with the rest of the Democratic Party. I’m going to be a Democrat, but I’m done with the Democratic Party.” That’s what Republicans did over the course of many, many years as well. They feared their base. They did not worry about the potential political repercussions of pushing for incredibly unfavorable and unpopular policies. And look where they’re at now. They got rewarded consistently time and time again. Or at least doing something. That’s the attitude that many Americans have. They’re just like, “Yeah, everything is messed up. At least this guy wants to break the system. And I don’t really like the system anyway. I don’t like the institutions anyway. They, what have they done for me? So let’s test this out.”

Preview: Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) conducts a news conference after Senate luncheons in the US Capitol on March 11, 2025. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images If you check in on any of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s social media pages today, you’ll probably notice that he’s been talking for a while. He’s standing on the Senate floor (occasionally resting against his desk) to criticize the Trump administration’s agenda and the work of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.” He’s also showing his fellow Democrats what it looks like to “do something” when you’re locked out of power in Washington DC. Into his second day of a marathon address on the Senate floor, Booker is engaging in almost, but not quite, a filibuster — an old congressional tradition. Filibusters are marathon addresses used as a procedural tool. They take advantage of the Senate’s rules that allow for unlimited debate or speaking by a senator unless there have been special limits put in place. Senators recognized by the presiding officer can speak indefinitely, “usually cannot be forced to cede the floor, or even be interrupted”…but “must remain standing and must speak more or less continuously,” according to the Congressional Research Service. But Booker’s address isn’t a filibuster — there’s no legislation that he’s trying to hold up. Instead, it’s a form of political theater and protest against the Trump administration. And it comes at a time when overwhelming shares of his party’s membership think their elected leaders aren’t putting up a tough enough fight to resist Donald Trump’s agenda. About two-thirds of Democratic voters would prefer their leaders “stick to their positions even if this means not getting things done in Washington” a March NBC News poll found.  This kind of show of political force, at least, has been what top Democrats were saying when warning about Trump on the campaign trail last year. They would prefer congressional leadership use whatever tools they have available to slow down the administration’s work: One recent poll, for example, even found that about three-quarters of Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters support the idea of “using procedural tactics like the filibuster to prevent Republican bills from passing.” Still, attention-grabbing moments like these aren’t guaranteed to have staying power. It’s far too early to tell whether Booker is galvanizing a lasting opposition as he might have hoped, or whether this will be drowned out by another Trump story. Still, it’s feeding the Democratic base’s hunger for (any kind of) Trump resistance — as he overruns traditional checks on his power. That’s not easy to do when you’re locked out of power, so Booker’s gamble is yet the latest attempt of Democrats trying to figure out how to fight back. Booker’s speech started on Monday evening, when he announced he would be “speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis.” “These are not normal times in our nation,” he said. “And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” Since then, he’s only stopped to allow the Senate chaplain to deliver a traditional prayer at noon, and to allow fellow Democratic senators to ask him questions and give him a bit of a rest. Yet he has remained standing, and only taken a couple drinks of water. He’s already entered the top rankings of the longest Senate speeches delivered. (Only one other sitting senator, Republican Ted Cruz of Texas, has delivered a longer address, when trying unsuccessfully to defund the Affordable Care Act.) This kind of show of political force, at least, has been what top Democrats were saying when warning about Trump on the campaign trail last year. Yet many in the Democratic base have felt like since Trump entered office, their leaders weren’t acting with that kind of urgency. Poll after poll shows that the Democratic rank and file feel adrift, leaderless, and dissatisfied. That fury intensified last month, when Democrats voted for a GOP-brokered spending bill to keep the government open. The thinking at the time was that a shutdown would do more harm than good, but many in the party’s base saw it as an unforgivable cave. Booker’s speech is an attempt to try something else. And whether or not it works, it’s something different. Update, April 1, 2025, 7:45 pm: This story was originally published earlier in the day and has been updated to reflect that Booker has been speaking for 24 straight hours.

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Preview: Michigan Wolverines star Vladislav Goldin, who is from Russia. | Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Vox reader Brian Diederich asks: Why and how do so many collegiate basketball teams — both men’s and women’s — now have so many international student-athletes? If you’ve turned on March Madness this year, you’ve witnessed the most international players ever in college basketball’s signature competition.  Across both the men’s and women’s brackets, 264 athletes — 15 percent of all NCAA players in the tournaments — hailed from outside of the US. They are a cross-section of humanity, representing 45 countries in the women’s tournament and 52 in the men’s.  The number of overall international college basketball players more than doubled from 2010 to 2025. It is a trend across sports: 25,000 of all US college athletes were born in another country. Forty years ago, US schools put little thought into recruiting players from Africa or Europe. A handful of players started to come to the US to play college ball in the 1980s, as the NBA was becoming more popular and thinking more globally. But international players were almost exclusively identified by word of mouth, recommendations from a friend of a friend. Sometimes, the US coaches wouldn’t even see any game tape before signing a player to a scholarship; in 1984, Dutch player Rik Smits got a scholarship offer from Marist University based on nothing but his height (7-foot-4); he says the coach never even saw him play. But today, the NBA and NCAA have built out an international pipeline for players, while the internet has made it easier than ever to scout from abroad. A lot has changed. What has driven more international recruitment in college basketball? NBA legend Hakeem Olajuwon, who came to the US in 1980 to play NCAA basketball, is a pivotal figure in this evolution. Then a relatively unknown Nigerian teenager, he was offered a chance to try out for the University of Houston’s team because a coach had heard from an acquaintance that Olajuwon was a promising prospect. After his star college career and a successful transition to the pros, Olajuwon had set the blueprint.  Olajuwon became one of the NBA’s best players in the ’80s and ’90s, winning an NBA MVP and two championships. His rise was paralleled by Jamaica’s Patrick Ewing, who moved from Kingston to play high school basketball in the US before attending Georgetown and then going on to make the New York Knicks one of the consistently best in the league. Smits played for 12 seasons and made one All-Star team.  Their success, and the next generation of players who followed, pushed the NBA — and, with it, college basketball — on the path to globalization. By the turn of the century, even elite prep schools were starting to recruit international players. A recruiting arms race got underway in the ’80s and ’90s, and then an NCAA rule change in 2010 made it easier for more international players to come to the US. Basketball is typically one of the most popular and most profitable athletic programs that a university will have, second only to football if the school has a football team — and for some schools, like Duke, basketball still maintains primacy. The pressure to compete is intense. If you’re at the University of North Carolina and you see your top rival, the Blue Devils, recruiting abroad, you are going to start doing the same thing. International recruitment went from happenstance in the ’80s to an indispensable recruitment tactic that teams across the NCAA used to keep up. In 2001, the NBA doubled down on the strategy and set up a formal pipeline, the Basketball Without Borders program, to get promising international players in front of American scouts. The NBA has more recently set up academic training camps that teach basketball skills while also offering more general education classes to prepare participants for a US college experience. The program proved to be a success. One of Basketball Without Borders’s graduates is Joel Embiid, a Cameroonian player who came to basketball as a teenager, played as a Kansas Jayhawk, and won an MVP at the professional level in 2023. Technology helped revolutionize basketball recruiting. In 1984, Rik Smits’s Marist coach had to hope that somebody had recorded Smits playing on some grainy VHS tape and then physically get his hands on that tape. Without that, he had nothing to go on but height. Today, player highlights from all over the world are uploaded to YouTube — where American coaches can view them easily at any time, and players can even build hype on social media to get attention from recruiters. Those recruiters are offering players not only the chance to come to the US for an education — they’re also offering a financial opportunity.  How has money in college sports affected international recruitment? Money is changing everything about what it means to be a college athlete — including for international players.  An opportunity to make money for themselves — and not just for the schools — is steering even more foreign basketballers to US colleges. NCAA athletes can now earn money through endorsements and other activities thanks to the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rule that took effect in 2021.  In the ’90s and early 2000s, as international recruitment was spreading, playing college basketball wasn’t necessarily the smart move for the most elite foreign players. They could instead play in the expanding overseas professional leagues, earn a salary, and then enter the NBA draft without ever attending a US school. And that path was well trod: Luka Dončić, the subject of a media frenzy after his trade to the Los Angeles Lakers, played in the EuroLeague and leapt to the NBA in 2018 — three years before the NIL provision took effect. But today, you can make real money playing college basketball in America and earn a salary that rivals those of foreign professional leagues. International players do have to jump through some extra hoops, as students on an immigration visa earning money raises legal questions, but athletes and their sponsoring institutions are quickly becoming savvy about how to navigate that issue. The potential to make money while in school might even convince some players to stay in the college game longer instead of jumping to the NBA as quickly as possible.  Michigan center Vladislav Goldin, who was born in Russia, helped lead the Wolverines to their Sweet 16 berth last weekend, but he almost wasn’t there at all: He’d declared for the NBA draft in spring 2024, but changed his mind and transferred from Florida International University to U of M, a more prestigious program with more earning opportunities.  A decade or two ago, that would have been unthinkable. But the business of college basketball has changed — and so have the players. This story was also featured in the Explain It to Me newsletter. Sign up here. For more from Explain It to Me, check out the podcast.

Preview: A green sea turtle. | Ron Masessa/Getty Images Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ocean under moonlight to lay their eggs in the sand, often returning to the same beach on which they were born many years earlier. Sometimes when the turtles emerge to nest, researchers like Julianna Martin are watching patiently from the shadows. For her doctoral research, Martin, a PhD student at the University of Central Florida, has been analyzing sea turtle tears. Yes, the tears of sea turtles. So on several summer nights in 2023 and 2024, she’d stake out beaches and wait for the turtles to start laying eggs. At that point, the reptiles enter a sort of “trance,” she said, allowing scientists like her to collect samples, including tears.  Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the goopy tears they exude. Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel excess salt from their bodies. (As far as we know, they are not sad.) Martin would then take those tears back to her lab for analysis.  This odd work serves a purpose. Martin is examining sea turtle tears to see if they contain a specific kind of bacteria. Such a discovery, she said, could help unlock one of biology’s biggest and most awe-inspiring mysteries: how animals navigate using Earth’s invisible magnetic field. The “holy grail” of sensory biology After baby turtles hatch, they dig their way out of the sand and crawl into the ocean, where they embark on an epic journey that can take them thousands of miles across the open sea. Loggerheads that hatch in Florida, for example, swim across the Atlantic and reach islands off the coast of Portugal, before eventually returning to Florida’s beaches as adults to nest.  Remarkably, the turtles typically return to the same region of Florida or even to the same beach.  “These young turtles can guide themselves along that 10,000-mile migratory path despite never having been in the ocean before and despite traveling on their own,” said Kenneth Lohmann, a biologist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies sea turtle navigation. Researchers like Lohmann have learned that sea turtles, like many other species, seem to navigate using Earth’s magnetic field. That’s the subtle magnetic force — generated by the planet’s molten metal core — that surrounds Earth, not unlike the force around a bar magnet. The intensity and direction of the field vary across Earth’s surface, making it useful for navigation. Plus, the magnetic field is present even when other spatial cues, like light, are not.  What remains a mystery, however, is how animals sense these magnetic forces. Decades of research have failed to turn up a mechanism for so-called magnetoreception or any kind of specialized organ that can sense magnetic force. As Martin’s adviser Robert Fitak has written, it’s like knowing an animal can respond to something visual but not finding any eyes.  “It’s the last sense we effectively know nothing about,” sensory biologist Eric Warrant has said about magnetoreception. “The solution of this problem I would say is the greatest holy grail in sensory biology.” Scientists have proposed a number of theories for how this might work. And all of them are totally bonkers.  The prevailing theory is rooted in quantum mechanics, and it is extremely complicated. The theory posits that when certain light-sensitive molecules known as cryptochromes absorb light, they produce something called radical pairs — two separate molecules each with one unpaired electron. Those two unpaired electrons are quantumly entangled, which essentially means that their spin states are interdependent: They either point in the same direction or opposite directions, and they ping-pong between the two.  This theory suggests that Earth’s magnetic field influences the spin states of those radical pairs, and that, in turn, affects the outcome of chemical reactions in the body of animals. Those chemical reactions — which animals can theoretically interpret, as they might, for example, smells or visuals — encode information about Earth’s magnetic field. (If you want to dive deeper, I suggest watching this lecture or reading this paper.)  Another theory suggests that animals have bits of magnetic material in their bodies, such as the mineral magnetite. According to this theory, those magnetic bits are influenced by Earth’s magnetic field — just like a compass — and animals can sense those influences to figure out where they’re going.  Martin and Fitak’s research is exploring this latter theory, but with an important twist. They suspect that sea turtles and other animals might rely on magnetite to sense Earth’s magnetic field but may not produce the magnetite themselves. Instead, they suggest, sea turtles may have a symbiotic relationship with magnetite-producing bacteria — literally living compasses — that sense the magnetic field and somehow communicate information back to the turtle.   This isn’t an outrageous idea. Magnetic bacteria — more technically, magnetotactic bacteria — is real, and quite common in aquatic environments around the world. Plus, there’s evidence that magnetotactic bacteria help another microscopic organism, known as a protist, navigate. The question is, could they help turtles navigate, too? Magnetic bacteria is a thing  Magnetotactic bacteria are extremely cool. These microscopic organisms have what are essentially built-in compass needles, said Caroline Monteil, a microbial ecologist at the French research institute CEA. The needles comprise chains of magnetic particles produced by the microbes, which you can see under a microscope (shown in images below). Remarkably, those needles align the bacteria with Earth’s magnetic field lines, just like a real compass needle does. As the bacteria roam about, they move in line with the direction of the planet’s magnetic force.  Magnetic sensing is useful for the bacteria, said Fitak, an assistant professor at UCF. Magnetotactic bacteria need specific levels of oxygen to survive, and those levels tend to vary with depth. Deeper levels of sediment in a stream, for example, might have less oxygen. In most of the world, the direction of the magnetic field is at least somewhat perpendicular to Earth’s surface — meaning, up and down — allowing the bacteria to move vertically through their environment to find the optimal habitat, as if they’re on a fixed track.  In at least one case, magnetic bacteria team up with other organisms to help them find their way. A remarkable study published in 2019 found that microscopic organisms in the Mediterranean Sea called protists were able to sense magnetic forces because their bodies were covered in magnetic bacteria. When the authors put the north pole of a bar magnet next to a water droplet full of protists, they swam toward it. When they flipped the magnet, the protists swam away. (Different magnetic microbes are attracted to either north or south poles, often depending on where on Earth they live.) You can actually see this in the video below.  It’s not clear how the magnetic bacteria are actually guiding the protist, said Monteil, the study’s lead author.  Now, returning to the turtles: The theory that Fitak and Martin are exploring is that sea turtles, like protists, might also have magnetotactic bacteria — those living compasses — in their bodies, and somehow be able to read them. Some microbes in the microbiome aid in digestion. Others provide directions. Maybe.  One idea, Martin says, is that the bacteria could aggregate near nerves in the turtles that provide information about their position in space. Some of those nerves are near the tear ducts, she said — which is ultimately why she was army crawling on the beach to collect turtle tears. The goal, she said, is to figure out if those tears contain magnetotactic bacteria. That would be one indication that these animals might be using bacteria for navigation.  “We’re not entirely sure how magnetotactic bacteria could be facilitating a magnetic sense, but that seemed like a good place to start,” Martin said.  While her research is still underway, Martin has yet to find evidence of magnetotactic bacteria in the tears of the 30 or so turtles she’s analyzed so far. That’s disappointing, she said, but it doesn’t rule out the possibility that these bacteria exist somewhere in the body of a turtle and help them navigate.  “There are so many other ideas about ways that magnetotactic bacteria could provide information to an organism about Earth’s magnetic field,” she said. “There’s a variety of other locations and other taxa that might be better for studying this theory.”  Other scientists who study animal navigation are skeptical.  It’s unlikely that symbiosis with magnetotactic bacteria is what enables sea turtle navigation, said Monteil. Part of the problem is that there’s no known mechanism through which the bacteria would communicate with the turtle. It’s also not clear what magnetotactic bacteria would get out of this relationship, if it is indeed symbiotic — could sea turtles provide the conditions bacteria need to survive? Maybe. Maybe not. What’s more, Monteil said, is that magnetotactic bacteria are widespread in the environment, so even if Martin did find them in sea turtle tears, it would do little to prove the theory. Just because magnetic bacteria are present doesn’t mean they’re helping the animal navigate. But then again, other theories are still entirely unproven, too — and some of them are a lot weirder. “I don’t think it is impossible,” Monteil said of sea turtles and other organisms using magnetic bacteria to navigate. “Nothing is impossible. Life is amazing and has found ways to do things that we couldn’t imagine centuries before.” “We don’t know until we know.”

Preview: President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, on March 24, 2025. | Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump has said that “tariff” is the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.” And throughout his first months in office, the president has given Americans plenty of cause for googling that word’s definition. Since January 20, Trump has announced tariffs on steel and aluminum made outside the US, all products made in Canada or Mexico, all Chinese goods, and all foreign-made cars, among other things. And on April 2 — a date Trump has dubbed “Liberation Day” — he has vowed to impose reciprocal tariffs on all nations that allegedly disadvantage US products through trade, tax, or regulatory policy.  The president’s prolific and haphazard tariff declarations have tanked stock markets, soured consumer sentiment, and thrilled some longtime critics of globalization.  Meanwhile, they’ve left some Americans concerned and confused; tariffs arguably haven’t been this relevant to the US economy in nearly a century. So many are understandably unsure about what tariffs are, how they affect consumers, why governments would implement them, and whether the president’s policy will work on its own terms. Here’s the short answer: Tariffs are a tax on imported goods. They generally make affected consumer products more expensive. In theory, well-designed tariffs will also encourage targeted industries to produce more in the United States. And manufacturing certain goods domestically — instead of importing them from abroad —may have national security or economic benefits. Trump’s own rationales for his tariffs are numerous and shifting: He sees them as a tool for raising revenue, enhancing national security, and revitalizing the US economy by increasing domestic manufacturing jobs. But the president’s tariffs are so broad, high, and ever-changing that they could actually backfire. What are tariffs? How will they affect consumers?  To understand what tariffs are — and how they work — it’s helpful to consider a concrete example. On April 3, Trump will impose a 25 percent tariff on all cars made outside the United States. This means businesses that import foreign-made automobiles — such as car dealerships — will need to pay a 25 percent tax on every foreign vehicle that they purchase. When a business’s costs rise, it typically tries to compensate by raising prices. And the president actually needs his auto tariffs to raise the prices of foreign cars: The official point of this tariff is to encourage Americans to buy more domestically produced cars, so that more auto manufacturers locate production in the US. If the tariff doesn’t make foreign-made cars more expensive for US consumers, it won’t give them any incentive to “buy American.” In practice, Trump’s auto tariffs are likely to increase the prices of all cars, including American-made ones. This is for two reasons: First, US car manufacturers will need to pay tariffs on foreign-made auto parts. And second, US auto companies will face weaker competition. Previously, American carmakers couldn’t raise prices without fearing that doing so would lead potential customers to purchase a German, Japanese, or South Korean car instead. Trump’s tariffs make that much less of a concern.  For these reasons, economists have estimated that Trump’s tariffs will raise US car prices by between $4,000 and $15,000 per vehicle.  These same basic dynamics apply to tariffs on other goods. Put a tariff on foreign-made washing machines, and US retailers that import such appliances will raise prices. American washing machine makers, meanwhile, will be able to charge more due to weaker competition.  And this actually happened: In 2018, Trump put a tariff on washing machines, which stayed in effect until 2023. During the four years that those tariffs were in place, the cost of laundry equipment in the US rose by 34 percent, much higher than the overall inflation rate over that period. Trump’s current tariffs are poised to have an even bigger impact on Americans’ finances. According to a recent estimate from the Yale Budget Lab, Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China alone could reduce the average US household’s disposable income by as much as $2,000. If tariffs hurt consumers, why would governments impose them? What are the benefits of tariffs? There is little question that tariffs are bad for consumers. But in theory, they could still serve a nation’s interests in at least three ways: By generating revenue. Since tariffs are a tax, they provide the government with revenue that it can use to pay down debts or finance spending. The US government actually used tariffs as its primary revenue source from the republic’s founding until the Civil War. But since the federal income tax was introduced in 1913, tariffs have become an increasingly marginal source of funds for the government. Trump says he wants to change this. In fact, he has called for replacing income taxes with tariffs. And his administration claims that its auto tariffs will bring in $100 billion of revenue this year.  By nurturing highly valuable domestic industries. Many nations have successfully used tariffs to facilitate economic development.  For example, beginning in the 1960s, South Korea sought to build up its domestic car industry. But getting such an industry off the ground is difficult. In their first years of operation, South Korea carmakers had little hope of producing automobiles that were competitive with foreign ones in quality or price. By placing high tariffs on foreign-made cars, the South Korean government ensured that its domestic automakers would have a market for their less-than-stellar vehicles. Today, South Korean brands like Kia and Hyundai are globally competitive. America’s car industry is much more mature today than South Korea’s was in the 1960s. But American auto manufacturers cannot make electric vehicles as efficiently as China can. Economic analysts disagree about whether it is important for America to have a globally competitive EV sector. But if we do want to nurture our electric vehicle industry, it makes some sense to put high tariffs on Chinese EVs — as both Joe Biden and Trump have done. By improving national security. Some goods and commodities have military value. Relying on foreign nations for steel, ammunition, advanced semiconductors, or various other technologies could undermine a country’s national security — after all, foreign nations could theoretically choke off America’s access to militarily valuable technologies in the midst of a conflict. And many of Trump’s tariffs are officially intended to enhance America’s capacity to produce materials necessary for war. How have recent administrations used tariffs? The United States had used tariffs to nurture its infant industries during the 19th and early 20th centuries. But in the wake of World War II, America pursued the open exchange of goods across borders.  With much of Europe and Asia in ruins, US manufacturers did not need tariffs to dominate global industry. Meanwhile, America’s foreign policy establishment feared that communism would take root in Western Europe and Japan if they did not successfully rebuild their industrial economies. Therefore, to foster healthy capitalist growth abroad — while lowering prices for Americans — the US pursued tariff reduction. The United States did occasionally enact new tariffs between the Second World War and Trump’s first election. For example, in 1987, Ronald Reagan put a 100 percent tariff on Japanese computers, televisions, and power tools, after Japan blocked US-made semiconductors from its market. But the general direction of US trade policy between Harry Truman’s presidency and Trump’s first term was toward freer trade.  What will be the effect of Trump’s tariffs specifically?  Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Trump’s tariffs will generate reliable revenue, strengthen American manufacturing, or improve US national security. (And their odds of advancing Trump’s more peculiar trade policy goals, such as coercing Canada into becoming the 51st state, are even slimmer.)  There is a simple problem with tariffs as a revenue source: The more a tariff encourages consumers to buy domestically produced goods, the less revenue it generates. For example, if a tariff on foreign cars leads everyone to buy American vehicles, then the car tariff will cease generating revenue. Thus, for Trump’s tariffs to provide a steady source of revenue, they would need to be so low that importers continue purchasing lots of foreign-made goods (and thus paying taxes on them). But Trump’s tariffs in many sectors are very high, precisely because he wants Americans to purchase fewer foreign-made goods. So the president’s tariffs can’t plausibly provide enough consistent revenue to offset his proposed tax cuts (let alone, to fully replace the federal income tax). Meanwhile, his tariffs could actually hurt US manufacturing for at least three reasons: First, Trump’s tariffs apply to a vast number of industrial inputs, such as metals, energy, and electronics. This will raise costs for US manufacturers, forcing them to raise prices, which will render their products less appealing to foreign consumers. Further, tariffs on inputs will also give companies an incentive to locate factories in other countries, where they will not have to pay, for example, a 25 percent tax on parts and materials made in Canada or Mexico.  Second, Trump’s tariffs will reduce the real wages of American workers. If the average US household’s disposable income drops by $2,000, that family will likely spend less money on goods. This could ultimately reduce demand for US-made products.  Indeed, the market research firm Cox Automotive believes that this is precisely what will happen with Trump’s car tariffs. In its analysis, US car plants will likely have to cut production by 30 percent, as consumers will respond to rising prices by postponing car purchases. Third, foreign countries are retaliating against Trump’s trade policies by placing tariffs on American-made goods. And that will limit the global sales of American manufacturers. This will be especially true of America’s most innovative and advanced industries, such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and medical equipment, which are more likely to sell their wares globally.  We’ve already seen Trump’s tariffs backfire for these reasons. According to a 2019 Federal Reserve analysis, the tariffs Trump imposed during his first term reduced manufacturing employment in affected industries. Finally, the tariffs’ hypothetical national security benefits are dubious. America’s security likely depends more on strong international alliances than the amount of steel we produce domestically. And Trump’s tariffs have antagonized America’s closest allies while undermining our nation’s credibility as a dealmaker: In 2018, Trump himself reached a trade agreement with the governments of Canada and Mexico. Yet he nevertheless applied 25 percent tariffs on both countries this year, in direct violation of his own trade deal.  If the United States is unwilling to abide by the terms of the agreements it orchestrates, other countries have less incentive to cooperate with us.  In sum, Trump’s tariffs are likely to raise prices, weaken US manufacturers, and undermine America’s alliances and global influence. How long will Trump’s tariffs be in effect? It’s unclear how lasting Trump’s tariffs will prove to be. He has framed some of the duties — such as his 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico — as a potentially temporary bargaining chip in negotiations over trade and border security. But he has suggested that others will be permanent.  As the costs of Trump’s trade policies to US consumers and manufacturers mount, it is possible that the administration will decide its agenda is politically unsustainable. Already, Trump’s tariffs are deeply unpopular, with 61 percent of voters disapproving of them in a recent CNN poll.

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