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    San Francisco announced and then swiftly reversed a new “grading for equity” initiative last week. The rapid reversal is a sign of a resurgent moderate wing of urban politics — and of a growing anxiety among Democrats that they are losing their traditional status as the party the public trusts on education.

      What you're witnessing today is not a broken criminal justice system, but one functioning as designed, corrupt beyond sustainability. Five years after calls to defund the police, whatever that entailed, we are witnessing the unraveling of a rule of law that was always lacking in equity. 

        The Court of International Trade recently delivered a blow to President Donald Trump's global trade war. It found that the worldwide tariffs Trump unveiled on "Liberation Day" as well his earlier tariffs pretextually aimed at stopping fentanyl coming in from Mexico and Canada (as if) were beyond his authority.

          The best that can be said about President Donald Trump’s blessing of Nippon Steel’s purchase of U.S. Steel is that it blocks Cleveland-Cliffs’ political power play to buy U.S. Steel instead. The worst to be said is that the purchase has become another opening to make U.S. companies less competitive with higher tariff walls on foreign steel.

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