CURE News Digest: Monday, March 23, 2026

[CURE News]

3-20-26  Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

“Obliterated” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist & visual storyteller)

“The only things Trump has obliterated is America’s reputation”

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/obliterated

3-22-26   Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

“Trump celebrates Robert Mueller’s death” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist & visual storyteller)

“Melania, you must be very proud”

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-celebrates-robert-muellers

3-23-26  Letters from an American

“March 22, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson

“President Donald J. Trump‘s behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes out at those he perceives to be enemies.”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-22-2026

3-23-26  Robert Reich substack

“Why He’ll Surrender Soon” by Robert Reich

“But he’ll call it a great victory”

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-surrender

3-23-26  The Contrarian

“Trump’s Disastrous War Comes Home to Roost” by Jennifer Rubin

“Three big risks threaten that things will only get worse”

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-disastrous-war-comes-home

3-23-26  The Bulwark | Morning Shots

“Better to TACO than Not to TACO” by Kristol, Egger & Swift

“Trump chicken out again…for now.”

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/better-to-taco-than-not-to-taco-trump-iran-war-threat-power-plants-strait-hormuz-oil

3-23-26  The Red Letter

“EXCLUSIVE:  ‘There’s Zero Confidence in Pete Hegseth’:  What Republicans Are Saying Privately About Iran” by Tara Palmeri

“After speaking with Republican sources in D.C., one thing is clear:  behind the public unity, there is growing alarm about the lack of an exit plan and a looming $200 billion ask.”

https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/exclusive-theres-zero-confidence

3-22-26  Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

“The Week Ahead” by Joyce Vance

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-a96

3-23-26  ProPublica

“Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids” by Ernsthausen, Ariza, Funk, Rosenberg, & Sandoval

“Immigration authorities are arresting more of these moms in the first place, but that doesn’t account for all of the surge in deportations. If arrested, they are seldom allowed to return home to their families anymore. About 30% of such arrests under Biden resulted in a deportation. Under Trump, almost 60% resulted in a deportation.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids

3-23-26  Popular Information

“One company’s million-dollar gambit to turn the healthcare crisis into a gold mine” by Judd Legum

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WA7lVfRDGhPjS4Sq_tgVSsrWAoOIQZg3P7Z4E0zhYX8/edit?tab=t.0

End of CURE News Digest:  Monday, March 23, 2026  

“The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving,

democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost

if everyone waits around for someone else.”   

~Timothy D. Snyder, American historian