Eugene Scott

Opinion | Epstein Won’t Break Trump’s Coalition, but the Fissures Are Starting to Show

“Trump’s recalcitrance on the Epstein files isn’t enough to shatter his coalition, but it has created at least a few fissures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

Men’s mental health care is in jeopardy with GOP legislation - The Boston Globe President Trump has spent most of May and June championing legislation that would take mental health care away from millions of Americans — many of them men.

By 2034, about 16 million people would lose health coverage with proposed Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big beautiful bill” as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/20/o...

Being a progressive activist made me miserable - The Boston Globe My entire worldview changed when I realized that ‘being part of the solution’ doesn’t require being part of a political tribe.

Though female members of every demographic are more likely than their male counterparts to receive a psychological diagnosis, left-leaning men are more likely to experience mental illness than conservative women. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/o...

Trump’s book bans hurt the chances for reparations - The Boston Globe Some of the opposition to reparations is rooted in ignorance. And that is likely to become more widespread given that support for book bans has reached the federal level.

Great @globeopinion.bsky.social piece by my friend @scotteugene.bsky.social on how ignorance that book bans foment limits our ability to build a better, more just future. As that’s the point of it.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/o...

International students contributed $44 billion to the U.S. economy in the 2023-2024 school year. Their loss could hurt more than just universities’ bottom line. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People

After rising to power in part by framing himself as a protector of white America, Trump continues to use his platform, in this case the Oval Office, to elevate claims of white grievance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Jeff Bezos Abandons Khashoggi to Cut Deal With MBS Jeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggi—now he's making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, revealing more about his values than any vigil ever could.

Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at Saudi Crown Prince MBS’s direction, Bezos is going into business—and, thus, helping to enrich—the man who orchestrated it. www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

AmeriCorps volunteers comfort lonely seniors. Trump just cut their programs. More than a dozen senior volunteer programs were impacted by DOGE cuts to AmeriCorps, leaving those who relied on the free services without them.

Across the country, more than a thousand national and local nonprofits, schools, and faith-based and community organizations are reeling after Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service ordered AmeriCorps last week to terminate close to $400 million in grants www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Rwanda in talks with Trump admin to accept deported migrants The White House did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment Monday.

The African nation of Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees, the country's foreign minister confirmed late Sunday. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/r...

Rwanda in talks with Trump admin to accept deported migrants The White House did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment Monday.

The African nation of Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees, the country's foreign minister confirmed late Sunday. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/r...

Cory Booker's epic Senate speech puts Democrats back in the spotlight Democratic voters grown impatient with leaders who won't counter Trump more aggressively.

Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.

DOJ seeks death penalty for Luigi Mangione Attorney General Pam Bondi characterized the alleged murder as "a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination."

Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murder in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year. www.axios.com/2025/04/01/l...

Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services States were told Monday that they could no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.

“In so many cases, these are lifesaving programs and services, and we worry for the well- being of those who have come to count on this support,” said Dannette R. Smith, the commissioner of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View

Economist/YouGov Poll, March 9-11
54% of Americans say eliminating the U.S. Department of Education would hurt public schools in their community
18% say it would help
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Can Young People Afford to Not Go to College? The president of Quinnipiac University makes the argument that while college is expensive, not going to college can cost even more.

“The true returns from a college degree compound in earnings and also in overall well-being, not just over years but over decades.” time.com/7267451/coll...

New CNN poll: Americans are negative on Trump’s handling of economy | CNN Politics Americans are not impressed with President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the economy, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, putting him underwater on the nation’s top issue even as he sees ra...

56 percent of the public disapproves of Trump’s handling of the economy — worse than at any point during his first term in office. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

The Hannah Berner-Megan Thee Stallion Drama Isn't Just About Race. It's About Journalism While we’re flagging inappropriate questions, maybe it’s time to start talking about who’s asking them.

“Pushing untrained creators out onto the red carpet in the hopes of virality is making a bleak media landscape even worse. Just because you give someone a microphone, it doesn’t make them a journalist — and it most certainly doesn’t guarantee a good interview.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

America's college chaos It's total warfare on all aspects of higher education

“Once a college closes a DEI office, once it shuts down a research program, once it censors a syllabus, these things are not coming back. The political will is not there to bring them back on a college campus." www.axios.com/2025/03/02/t...

Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’ The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.

“If we as a newspaper, and we as a country, are to defend his twin pillars, then we must redouble our fight against the single greatest threat to “personal liberties and free markets” in the United States today: President Donald Trump,” @danamilbank.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Pressed at the Pentagon Inside a tense off-the-record meeting, the Pentagon’s new press chief confronted reporters and indicated they will do away with the regular travel pool.

Scoop: In a tense off-the-record meeting with reporters that went off-the rails, the Pentagon's new press chief indicated they'll do away with the travel pool. He also scolded reporters for their coverage. "It was bleak and horrible," I'm told.

Details in Status: www.status.news/p/pressed-at...

Trump on calling Zelenskyy a dictator: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”

She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this — The Washington Post Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.

Cooper and her husband were trying to get pregnant, but the doctor said that IVF might be their best chance. Trump had promised to make it free. That is what she thought about in the voting booth. apple.news/Av161Tv0FTfC...

Trump hosts Black History Month event amid war on DEI During the Black History Month ceremony, which preserved a long-standing and bipartisan White House tradition, Trump omitted any mention of his anti-DEI efforts.

Trump won the support of about 2 in 10 Black voters in 2024, up from about 1 in 10 in 2020, according to the Associated Press. He roughly doubled his share among young Black men, winning about 3 in 10 of those voters. wapo.st/4gQvB1I

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

“Trump scoffed that U.S.A.I.D. was ‘run by radical lunatics.’ Is it radical lunacy to try to save children’s lives? To promote literacy for girls? To fight blindness?” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

What people don’t realize is that you don’t HAVE to watch that thing, you can just read.

Fear, pain and hunger: The dire impact of U.S. funding cuts in Africa Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.

Soup kitchens can no longer feed the hungry. First responders are unable to reach the dead and wounded. Mothers and fathers search in vain for the medicines that keep them alive. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Hakeem Jeffries lays out 10-part war plan for Democrats to take on Trump Jeffries previewed plans to use the government funding process as leverage to reverse some of Trump's moves.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has unveiled a 10-part plan for House Democrats' efforts to counter many of President Trump's moves to upend the federal bureaucracy. www.axios.com/2025/02/03/h...