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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Hitting a Wall

A judicial reprieve for sanctuary cities, Trump’s stance on the border wall, a Wikipedia-style fix for news, and more
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Border Blues: As Congress struggles to strike a deal on a spending bill this week, President Trump is renewing his calls for the government to fund a wall on the Mexican border. But for all his insistence on Twitter, Trump has indicated he’d back down on the demand to avoid a government shutdown—which makes the second time his opponents in Congress have called his bluff. Meanwhile, a federal judge just blocked his executive order to withhold funding from “sanctuary cities.”

The right-wing site was after it failed to demonstrate its independence from the Trump administration and from lobbying groups. But meanwhile, the even when it’s trying to guard against ideological bias. So, how to ensure a truly unbiased media environment? Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has a plan for a new journalism site that will be fact-checked and edited by a community of volunteers—but the idea has some underlying .

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