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Last month, Donald Trump decided to ban the Associated Press from the White House press pool because its editors refused to go along with his whim to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, held a hearing in the A.P.’s lawsuit to block the President’s latest and arguably most flagrant ever transgression of the First Amendment in his effort to control coverage of himself. “Trump, in justifying his attack on the A.P., had left little room for avoiding the truth about his ban: it was pure retaliation for the organization making its own decisions about how to report on him,” Susan B. Glasser writes. Perhaps even more worrisome, Trump has not confined his vengeance to the wire service; in seizing control of the press pool, Trump is challenging a prerogative of the White House press corps that goes back more than a century. “It’s power he wants, not just petty retribution,” Glasser notes. In a new column, Glasser writes about what happened when the A.P. got its day in court, and the President’s continued attacks on free speech: https://lnkd.in/gpiK6dRH

Today’s Bonus Daily Cartoon, by Guy Richards Smit. #NewYorkerCartoons https://lnkd.in/gU62jDie

Donald Trump and his allies are engaged in a methodical war against the legal profession, from law schools to the private bar, from the Justice Department to the federal judiciary. Their goal is not only to exact retribution against perceived enemies but to intimidate others who might dare to resist. A recent deal with the powerful New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison—and the studied silence of other law firms who have refused to speak out against Trump’s orders—offers an alarming illustration of how impressively the campaign is succeeding. “Whether the Paul, Weiss agreement was a wise compromise or shameful capitulation, the lesson is unavoidable: If a powerhouse like Paul, Weiss cannot stand up to Trump, no firm can,” Ruth Marcus writes. Read about Trump’s battle with Big Law: https://lnkd.in/gh3KQ6rx

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The actress Amanda Seyfried recommends books that raise questions about what it means to be a good daughter, wife, and mother—and that have made her feel less alone. See more reading suggestions from notable figures: https://lnkd.in/gthpxxtz

After purging the judiciary, cracking down on the media, and jailing political opponents, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faces protests on a scale not seen in a decade. An expert talks to Isaac Chotiner about why Erdoğan struck at his opponent now. https://lnkd.in/gUzt7DrY

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Niall Maher. #NewYorkerCartoons https://lnkd.in/gJBU7GJs

Manoel de Oliveira, who died in 2015, at the age of 106, made 22 features after the age of 80. Richard Brody reflects on some of the Portuguese director’s works, and how he is “the Benjamin Button of filmmaking, precocious in reverse.” https://lnkd.in/gVNK9CcF

Shulamith Firestone’s first book, “The Dialectic of Sex,” published when she was just 25, is among the most sweeping and ambitious intellectual efforts of feminism’s second wave. A manifesto with a broad historical remit and a utopian futurist vision, “Dialectic” attempted to do for sex what Marx had done for class: explain how the sex distinction had created a hierarchy within which all other social relations were built. “The book is confident, thorough, uninhibited, and often weird,” Moira Donegan writes. Then Firestone disappeared. Nearly three decades would pass before she published her last work, “Airless Spaces”—a largely autobiographical book about madness and institutionalization. “Firestone’s transformation from an activist who had bravely and lucidly critiqued her world into a suffering madwoman who could not understand it or function in it has haunted the second wave,” Donegan notes. Donegan revisits the book, which may suggest something disturbing about feminism itself: https://lnkd.in/gW6DeaEE