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02/22/25
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Trump 2.0: Rewriting Histories
February 21, 2025
•31m
This week, President Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war against Russia, ordered federal agencies created by Congress to answer directly to him and installed himself as the leader of Washington’s premiere cultural institution.
The Times journalists Michael Barbaro, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Charlie Savage and Elisabeth Bumiller sit down to make sense of it all.
Guest:
- Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent for The New York Times,
- Charlie Savage, who writes about national security and legal policy for The New York Times.
- Elisabeth Bumiller, a writer-at-large for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- Trump flipped the script on the war in Ukraine, blaming Volodymyr Zelensky, not Vladimir V. Putin.
- The president’s moves to upend federal bureaucracy touch off fear and confusion.
- Trump said he would install himself as the new Kennedy Center chairman.
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The Sunday Read: ‘What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons’
February 23, 2025
•44m
When David Muhammad was 15, his mother moved from Oakland, Calif., to Philadelphia with her boyfriend, leaving Muhammad in the care of his brothers, ages 20 and 21, both of whom were involved in the drug scene. Over the next two years, Muhammad was arrested three times — for selling drugs, attempted murder and illegal gun possession.
For Muhammad, life turned around. He wound up graduating from Howard University, running a nonprofit in Oakland called the Mentoring Center and serving in the leadership of the District of Columbia’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services. Then he returned to Oakland for a two-year stint as chief probation officer for Alameda County, in the same system that once supervised him.
Muhammad’s unlikely elevation came during a remarkable, if largely overlooked, era in the history of America’s juvenile justice system. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of young people incarcerated in the United States declined by an astonishing 77 percent. Can that progress be sustained — or is America about to reverse course and embark on another juvenile incarceration binge?
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