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The Department of Government Efficiency’s seizure of government databases is not just an act of bureaucratic reorganization. It is an act of constitutional restructuring.
The Israeli prime minister ignores the views of the majority of his people.
Gaza is struggling to keep clean water flowing.
Musk has turned a dangerously flawed view of “waste” into a philosophy of government.
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