David Smilde

Opinion | I Was Banished by My Country’s Dictator. What Happened to Me Is a Warning.

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The 1937 Soviet Census In the early 1930s, Joseph Stalin declared war on statistical reality, launching a brutal crackdown on the Tsentral’noe Statisticheskoe Upravlenie—the Central Statistical Administration.

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Venezuelan team denied entry into U.S. for Little League's senior tournament An executive order from President Trump limited entry for Venezuelans in June.

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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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Opinion | Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?

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‘I Want to Clear My Name’: Deported Migrant Takes First Step to Sue the U.S.

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One of the Trump administration’s Venezuelan victims of enforced disappearance to El Salvador, reunited with his wife and daughter

As the Dollar Slides, the Euro Is Picking Up Speed

Europeans really should be expressing some gratitude to Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...

So excited to finally have a hard copy of @beccahanson.bsky.social’s book in my hands. This is an incredibly solid exploration of not just violence and policing, but socialism and revolution in Venezuela.

You’re Not Imagining It: AI Is Already Taking Tech Jobs Since the rise of generative AI, many have feared the toll it would take on the livelihood of human workers. Now CEOs are admitting AI’s impact and layoffs are starting to ramp up.

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Man beaten by Jacksonville cops in viral video hires National Civil Rights attorneys Man beaten by Jacksonville cops in viral video hires National Civil Rights attorneys

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Ice secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital

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Leaders in India, Hungary and the US are using appeals to nostalgia and nationalism to attack higher education Populist, right-wing governments often target universities as enemies of the state. The Trump administration is watching − and learning.

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A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap

A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/w...

10 Americans are freed by Venezuela in a prisoner swap for migrants in El Salvador Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador.

10 Americans freed by Venezuela in prisoner exchange for deportees

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Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants in El Salvador

Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants in El Salvador www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...

El Gobierno de Trump entrega al ICE los datos personales de los beneficiarios de Medicaid, entre ellos sus direcciones | CNN Los funcionarios del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) tendrán acceso a los datos personales de los 79 millones de beneficiarios de Medicaid del país, incluyendo sus domicilios y etni...

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U.S. swaps Venezuelans sent to El Salvador for Americans held by Caracas The Venezuelans, labeled terrorists and violent criminals by President Trump, had been deported to the notorious CECOT prison, setting off a legal battle over executive power.

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Inside the powerful task force spearheading Trump’s assault on colleges, DEI The Trump administration is using antisemitism investigations as a pretext to pursue an unrelated conservative agenda, critics say.

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El Salvador to send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in prison swap for Americans, sources say El Salvador's government will send detained Venezuelans to Caracas in exchange for Americans held in Venezuela, two U.S. government officials told Reuters on Friday.

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El Salvador's top human rights group flees President Bukele's ongoing crackdown on dissent El Salvador’s top human rights organization, Cristosal, says it is leaving the country after harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele

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Why I Teach in Prison (opinion) Don C. Sawyer III reflects on what the wider world doesn’t get to see.

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GMU President Responds to Civil Rights Investigation In a pointed letter to the George Mason University community Wednesday, President Gregory Washington defended his institution against the Trump administration, which launched an investigation last wee...

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New Michigan Law Essay Prompt Asks Applicants to Use AI With nearly half of all large law firms using AI in some way, the leadership at Michigan Law wanted to give AI aficionados a chance to show their skills.

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Republicans Denounce Georgetown Professor for Post on Iran Republican representatives condemned a Georgetown University scholar’s alleged post on the United States’ bombing of Iran. The university’s president said the professor is being investigated and punis...

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Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026 The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million settlement paid by CBS News parent Paramount to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.

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Opinion | The Seeds of Democratic Revival Have Already Been Sown

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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

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