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Judge Blocks Trump From Using Defense Department Funds to Build Border Wall

Judge Haywood Gilliam blocked the government from using $1 billion from military accounts to begin construction on two sections of the wall.

Chief Justice John Roberts Is No Friend of Roe, but Is He Its Best Hope?

Professor Melissa Murray on Alabama’s message to Brett Kavanaugh, and Joan Biskupic on WWRD (What will Roberts do),

Slate Money: The Temperature Edition

Slate Money talks the Morehouse donation, office air conditioning, and carbon offsets.

Cops Is Just Crimesploitation

The cops and camera crew work together in malicious ways.

$500 Wet Suits, Drones, Seal Contraception: Shark Fever Has Arrived on Cape Cod

I mean, who doesn’t want a “shark shield”?

The Angle: Remainer Theresa May Is, in Fact, Leaving

In this edition, we discuss the long-standing foreign policy flaws of the U.K. and the U.S.

Is One of America’s Most Successful TV Shows Actually State Propaganda?

A revealing new podcast about Cops makes a convincing case.

America’s Credibility Abroad Is Shot, Even if Trump Loses in 2020

Thanks to Trump, any agreement made with a U.S. president is likely to be broken by the next one.

Trump Administration Releases Its Plan to Let Health Care Providers Refuse to Treat Transgender People

The new rule also suggests that federal law requires discrimination against transgender schoolchildren.

The Grandkid Strike: A Bold New Plan to Change Your Parents’ Bad Voting Habits

They’ll get behind the Green New Deal in exchange for a giggly little cutie patootie.