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 Europeans no longer feel safe because of Russia; A First Person Account (Foreign Policy Brief #218) - USRESIST NEWS During my trip across Europe a week ago, I spoke with people from different countries — ordinary men and women I met along the way. I asked each of them whether they feel safe in their country today and whether they expect a war.
30.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How the Trump Administration Shook Up Education — and What It Means for Students with Disabilities (Education Policy Brief #211) - USRESIST NEWS While most of the major media headlines about the Trump Administration’s education policies have focused on ideological battles with the nation’s premier universities, a quieter but more radical reshaping is taking place at the heart of the American education system itself.
30.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Saudi Arabia Enters the Video Game Industry (Foreign Policy Brief #219) - USRESIST NEWS Saudi’s investments in sports, in particular, has been labeled “sportswashing” and a way for the Saudi Arabian government to increase its publicity and popularity in the world while also maintaining a regime that violates human rights. Their move into new sectors and industries has also been a part of their Saudi Vision 2030 program which aims to diversify their entire economy away from traditional fossil fuels (which has propped their economies for decades) and transition into a post-oil world. Is the move to purchase EA a new moment of economic diversification, or is it more in the way of “sportswashing”? The answer isn’t totally clear.
30.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's Termination of U.S. Exchange Programs Weakens America at Home and Abroad - USRESIST NEWS Education Policy Brief #210 | Nicholas Gordon | October 23, 2025
30.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The House Is on Fire: White America’s Own Civil War - USRESIST NEWS For decades, America pretended its Civil War was over. It wasn’t. The battlefield just moved—from fields to feeds, from muskets to microphones, from soldiers to citizens.
21.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fortress Borders: the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Nationalism (Immigration Policy Brief #192) - USRESIST NEWS International migration continues to grow, with the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimating there were 281 million international migrants globally in 2020. While much migration is South-South (between developing nations), displacement from conflict, climate change, and economic instability drives significant South-North movement. This visible migration has become a foundational issue for populist movements, particularly in Europe and North America, which frame migrants as a threat to cultural identity and national security. In response, governments are increasingly adopting deterrence-focused policies, raising significant human rights concerns.
21.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Coal Revival in the Age of Climate Emergency: Inside Trump’s New Energy Gamble (Environmental Policy Brief #183) - USRESIST NEWS In a move that has startled climate scientists and energy economists alike, the Trump administration recently unveiled a sweeping new initiative aimed at reviving America’s coalindustry—a sector long regarded as both an economic relic and a climate catastrophe. The plan, a mix of subsidies, deregulation, and export promotion, represents a dramatic reversal of the Biden-era shift toward renewable energy and the most significant policy intervention in favor of coal since the early 2000s.
17.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Impact of New Energy Policy on the Coal Industry (Environmental Policy Brief #182) - USRESIST NEWS Most economic and energy analysts define coal as having an impending obsolescence, regardless of government intervention. Forcing more years out of coal plants that are aging past their end of life will end up passing unnecessary  costs onto consumers. A study by independent consulting firm Grid Strategies has found that the real cost of mining defunct coal facilities will end up costing end consumers up to $6 billion a year USD.
17.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Uncertain Future of the Department of Education and Title IX - USRESIST NEWS Leading up to the 2024 election, Donald Trump promised to dismantle the Department of Education, a sentiment that was supported in an executive order from the White House following Trump’s inauguration and also outlined in Project 2025. In a press release for the DOE published in March, U.S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, reiterated this plan, stating that her “vision is aligned with the President’s: to send education back to the states and empower all parents to choose an excellent education for their children.” In recent weeks, McMahon reaffirmed that the Trump administration is committed to fulfilling this promise by 2029.
17.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can The Government Prosecute Protesters For Their Speech? (Civil Rights Policy Brief #248) - USRESIST NEWS During a small outing by President Trump and a small group of officials at a public restaurant in Washington, D.C., the President was met by a small group of protesters. The protesters chanted "Free DC" and "Free Palestine" and also  “Trump is the Hitler of our time!" The protesters were ultimately  removed. However, the President later suggested the protesters should be charged under a racketeering statute since he said one of the protesters was a "paid agitator." It is unclear where the President receivedthis bit of info or if it is even true. After this incident, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche gave an interview where he defended the idea of prosecuting protesters.
10.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Zuckerberg Keeps Coming For Your Children (Technology Policy Brief #157) - USRESIST NEWS Complaints about META’s failure to protect children from the ills of social media continue to plague the company.  Most recently, unauthorized images of children were used in ads for Meta’s Threads app, and a significant study of the company's improvements in response to previous concerns criticized its efforts as largely ineffective.
10.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When our national parks get in the way of national greed (Environmental Policy Brief #212) - USRESIST NEWS For the 2026 federal budget year, beginning October 1st, the White House has proposed a $1.2 billion – or 36% - cut to the National Park Service (NPS). Prior to this proposed budget cut, around 2,800 NPS employees had either been fired or resigned their positions under an early retirement buyout. Under the Biden administration, the NPS employed around 20,000 staff. The NPS manages 63 national parks and 370 other sites that include lesser-known historic sites, monuments, and national seashores.
10.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unmasking the Target: Antifa & Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent (Elections & Politics Brief #199) - USRESIST NEWS Trump’s crackdown on political opposition, announced in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, is aimed at a range of Democratic and resistance groups. The first of these under examination is Antifa, a key target of the administration’s rhetoric and investigations. Yet Antifa is a far more diffuse and abstract entity than the White House suggests.
09.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Government Shutdown: Why it Happened, and What May Happen Next (Elections & Politics Brief #197) - USRESIST NEWS Push has come to shove, and for the first time in six years, the United States government has shut down. Driven by disagreements over the Republican federal spending bill, which would let tax credits for many American’s healthcare insurance expire at the end of the year, this shutdown is shaping up to be different from the rest.
04.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Instead of a Break Up, Google Gets a Slap on the Wrist (Technology Policy Brief #156) - USRESIST NEWS Google’s critics and competitors celebrated a court decision last year that found Google in violation of antitrust laws due to its monopolies over search services and online advertising.  Smaller companies, increasingly dependent on search rankings and online ads, simply can’t compete 
23.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Youth Vote: Is There Much of One? Can It Make a Difference? (Social Justice Policy Brief #179) - USRESIST NEWS Young voters are often called a “sleeping giant,” and in 2024, nearly half of eligible 18–29-year-olds voted—about 47%. That’s slightly less than in 2020 but more than in 2016. Turnout varied widely: states like Minnesota and Maine had over 60%, while Oklahoma and Arkansas were in the low 30s. These differences are closely tied to state policies. Places with easy registration and voting options—like online registration, same-day registration, and mail voting—had higher turnout. States with strict ID laws and limited access saw lower participation. In short: young voters showed up in 2024, but where and how much they participated depended heavily on state policies and systemic barriers. You can explore more in CIRCLE’s full analysis or theMAP youth voting report.
23.09.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The ‘Radical Left’: Defining Dissent in Divided America - USRESIST NEWS Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Trump is pushing to go after 'radical left' groups, those he claims promote political violence and engage in hate speech. What happened to Charlie Kirk is despicable & the politically motivated murder of an American has been condemned by leaders across the political spectrum. That said, the way we do that is by coming together as Americans not targeting our fellow citizens.
23.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Ensure A Fair And Safe 2026 Midterm Election - USRESIST NEWS With only nine months of his presidency in the books, President Donald Trump has undertaken a radical reshaping of American democracy. From its courts to its liberties, Trump is actively pushing for an American society that serves him and his movement.
23.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Efforts in Making Peace Between Russia and Ukraine (Foreign Policy Brief #217) - USRESIST NEWS On August 15, after his meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump said it had been “a great and very successful day in Alaska.” In phone calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, European leaders, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump added that his talks with Putin had gone “very well.” He later wrote: “It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a peace agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which oftentimes does not hold up.”
17.09.2025 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump and Intel — A Republican-Backed Nationalization (Elections & Politics Brief #194) - USRESIST NEWS In a surprise move, on August 22nd Donald Trump’s administration and the global technology company Intel announced a deal. In it, the United States government will make an $8.9 billion purchase of Intel stock, giving it around a 10% stake in the company.
16.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is It Time to Take a Look at Our Own Gun Laws? (Social Justice Policy Brief #178) - USRESIST NEWS Gunfire remains a defining crisis in the United States. On an average day, roughly 125 people are killed with guns and many more are wounded, a toll that reverberates through classrooms, workplaces, and families. Recent data compilations show that by late August 2025 the country had already endured more than 300 mass shootings this year, with hundreds killed and well over a thousand injured. These are not abstractions; they are neighbors, classmates, and coworkers.
16.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Dirties the Air and Drives Demands for Environmental Justice (Technology Policy Brief #155) - USRESIST NEWS Artificial Intelligence is more ubiquitous in our daily lives than you may realize.  It drives the constant stream of personalized ads, instant navigation directions when driving, voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa, shows up first in our Google searches, and much more. The massive data centers powering all that instant intelligence are less visible  to those of us who use it the most.  But they have become ubiquitous in lower-income communities of color, communities with the least access to high-speed home internet and some of the worst air pollution in the country.
10.09.2025 13:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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 The Week That Was Around The Globe (Foreign Policy Brief #216) - USRESIST NEWS Relatives of people killed by Israeli fire while they were waiting to receive humanitarian aid mourn outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
10.09.2025 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where Gerrymandering Comes From—and Where It’s Going (Elections & Politics Brief #193) - USRESIST NEWS Gerrymandering began as a nineteenth-century power play in Massachusetts, when Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a state senate redistricting bill whose oddly shaped Essex County district reminded a newspaper illustrator of a salamander. The nickname stuck, and so did the tactic: drawing electoral district lines to advantage a party or faction and to weaken cohesive communities of interest.
09.09.2025 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Law and Order or Overreach? When Soldiers Become Police (Immigration Policy Brief #191) - USRESIST NEWS As summer draws to an end, President Trump is once again utilizing federal military forces for law enforcement, this time in the nation’s capital. In California, Trump cited immigration protests for the use of the National Guard & ultimately the deployment of U.S. Marines. Now we see the President citing crime & the inability of D.C. Democrats to stop it. President Trump’s coast-to-coast use of federal military force in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. during 2025 highlights the growing tensions between public safety, constitutional boundaries, and presidential power, raising critical questions about the future of American democracy and civil-military relations.
28.08.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Downsizing of Student Learning Assessments (Education Policy Brief #208) - USRESIST NEWS As the Trump Administration carries out its crusade to reduce the size of government, one of the targets has been the Department of Education (DOE). The DOE is made up of a number of agencies and offices that have been severely impacted by these actions, one of which is the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
28.08.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The U.S. Government Turns the Other Cheek to Resolving the Israel–Palestinian Conflict (Foreign Policy Brief #215) - USRESIST NEWS Under the Trump administration, U.S. policy has shifted in tone, language, and substance: Washington has openly embraced Israeli priorities while sidelining Palestinian rights and claims. What had long been presented as a balancing act—security guarantees for Israel paired with a rhetorical commitment to Palestinian statehood—has become a policy that favors one side almost exclusively.
28.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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USRESIST SHARE: August 2025 #1 - USRESIST NEWS We are pleased to send you the current issue of USRESIST SHARE---our bi-weekly magazine of the latest news Briefs by our Reporters. USRESIST SHARE is intended to deepen your understanding of today's leading public policy and political issues. We hope you'll enjoy and welcome your feedback.
28.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Immigration Report - USRESIST NEWS USRESIST NEWS presents a special report on Immigration Policy. This report entails the immigration policy briefs by our news team over the last 6 months.
28.08.2025 10:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Suggestions for the Democratic 2026 MId-Term Platform - USRESIST NEWS  The 2026 mid-term elections offer the Democratic party an opportunity to regain control of the House and Senate.  However, Democrats face an uphill battle challenged by Trump policies, anti-Democratic rhetoric, internal divisions, and political maneuvers such as re-districting. To address these challenges the Democratics need to articulate a political platform with issues that resonate with voters.  While the need in every race is to prioritize concerns of local communities, a set of party-wide policy priorities that can be adapted to fit local needs would be helpful.  
21.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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