Anthony Clark Arend
@arenda
Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University; Chair, Department of Government (@GUGovt); @GUPolitics Faculty Liaison Opinions my own.
"Wherever there was a natural disaster, young Americans from State and USAID were there. They are as courageous, as heroic and as patriotic as any soldier I ever served with." Adm. William McRaven wapo.st/4luTj6y
"Public opinion alone will not safeguard the courts. But broad societal mobilization can." lawfaremedia.org/article/public…
OPINION: Vladimir Putin is spending millions of dollars bombarding European voters with manipulative social media and disinformation campaigns on a mass scale. It’s a new type of warfare on democracy that eliminates the need to roll tanks into capitals. ow.ly/mBlu50WiPRx
"Mr. Trump’s politicization of the F.B.I. has left it less able to combat terrorism, foreign espionage, biosecurity threats, organized crime, online scams, white-collar crime, drug trafficking and more." Just horrible. nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opi…
Well, whaddya know. A new decision in which a district court certified a Rule 23(b)(2) class and issued a … {checks notes} … NATIONWIDE INJUNCTION!!
BREAKING: A federal judge says Donald Trump's crackdown on aslyum for those crossing the southern border exceeded his legal authority and must be halted. He grants sweeping class protection. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…
"You can do a lot of bad things around Trump. You can ignore court orders. You can deport people without due process. You can let Ukrainian rivers fill with the blood of innocent people. But when you make Trump look weak or stupid, you’ve gone too far." theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
MMA is excited to participate in the 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial — SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change This marks the organization's 10th anniversary, featuring 100+ activations from 30 countries exploring architecture's response to global challenges. Sept 19,…
Come hear The Bedrocks!! LIVE!! Aug 2, 2025, at The Renegade! For tickets— renegadeva.com/arlington-clar…
Awful Senate Approves Trump’s Bid to Cancel Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/… via @NYTimes
New poll finds most Californians believe American democracy is in peril latimes.com/california/sto…
It’s the perfect scene
Honestly, the first thing I thought when I read about what Patel is doing.
"All the FBI needs now to complete a scene from, say, The Death of Stalin, is for Patel to run down the hallways shouting, “I have documents on all of you!” @RadioFreeTom Truth that! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
About six weeks ago I wrote in @TheAtlantic that the gutting of the NSC would mean that “The Pentagon, Treasury Department, Department of Homeland Security, Central Intelligence Agency, and other agencies could likewise set up their own mini–foreign policies, each based on the…
President Trump on sending more weapons to Ukraine: "We're gonna send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. They're getting hit very hard now."
"This administration was never directed or staffed with any coherent foreign policy in mind beyond Trump’s empty “America First” sloganeering." @RadioFreeTom theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
How can institutional architecture reflect and reinforce the innovative spirit of the organizations it serves? Our proposal for @NASAJPL's Administration Building explored this question—reimagining the office typology as a catalyst for the collaborative culture that drives space…
WCK’s Relief Team is on our way to central Texas to support communities impacted by catastrophic flooding in Hill Country. The Guadalupe River rose more than 26 feet in 45 minutes after heavy rains, impacting a number of children and staff stranded at local summer camps and…
Will the U.S. endure for another 250 years? smerconish.com/daily-poll/tha…
" Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a nap." @petridishes theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
