They Called It a Peaceful Protest. A Reporter Had to Hide Her Network Logo to Stay Safe.

The Department of Justice has established a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund intended to compensate individuals whose lives were disrupted by what the department characterizes as politically motivated federal prosecutions under the prior administration. The fund, now the subject of competing congressional and media scrutiny, represents what its architects describe as the first systematic attempt in a generation to attach a dollar figure to the cost of prosecutorial abuse targeting political opponents.

A federal district court judge on Thursday denied Senate Democrats’ request for a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to verify citizenship information on voter rolls and require that mail-in ballots arrive by Election Day, delivering the administration’s first legal victory on its election integrity push.

Thucydides observed, in his account of the Melian Dialogue, that the powerful do what they will while the weak suffer what they must — but he also noted something more interesting: that both powerful and weak alike are subject to self-deception, and that the most dangerous failure in foreign policy is not weakness but the deliberate refusal to hear what an adversary tells you plainly.