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Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from the Oval Office have been sadly disabused. There are increasing signs that the Trumpian base is radicalizing. My Republican friends report vicious divisions in their churches and families. Republican politicians who don’t toe the Trump line are speaking of death threats and menacing verbal attacks. It’s as if the Trump base felt some security when their man was at the top, and that...

David Brooks: The Republican Party is getting even worse Some think they are the small army of warriors fighting with Alamo-level desperation to ensure the survival of the country as they conceive it. (Jacquelyn Martin | AP file photo) In this Jan. 6 photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. By David Brooks | The New York Times   | April 24, 2021, 5:00 p.m. Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from t...

Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from the Oval Office have been sadly disabused. There are increasing signs that the Trumpian base is radicalizing. My Republican friends report vicious divisions in their churches and families. Republican politicians who don’t toe the Trump line are speaking of death threats and menacing verbal attacks. It’s as if the Trump base felt some security when their man was at the top, and that...

Credit...Travis Dove for The New York Times Those of us who had hoped America would calm down when we no longer had Donald Trump spewing poison from the Oval Office have been sadly disabused. There are increasing signs that the Trumpian base is radicalizing. My Republican friends report vicious divisions in their churches and families. Republican politicians who don’t toe the Trump line are speaking of death threats and menacing verbal attacks. It’s as if the Trump base felt some security w...

The Right to Remain Silent SHARE Universities, corporations, nonprofit groups, and other institutions are increasingly pressured to take positions on political issues such as climate change, systemic racism, diversity, and a new election law in Georgia. Writing at Arc Digital, Spencer Case warns of the consequences of this politicization: If most major corporations, scientific organizations, universities, and other prominent entities are committed to political goals—especially the same...

The Fourteenth Amendment is limited by the First Amendment when it comes to holding schools liable for speech by teachers or students in academic debates with each other. For example, a federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment barred a racial harassment lawsuit under the Fourteenth Amendment, over a professor’s racially-charged anti-immigration emails that offended Hispanic college staff. ( But the First Amendment doesn’t protect a racist policy officially adopted by a school sy...