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This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America.
What if it wasn’t about policing?
Will America’s president overcome the 1970s, or just refight its battles?
He wants a swarm of missile-toting satellites to take out incoming threats
Donald Trump sought disruption. He hurt America first.
The president wants to shrink and remake the civil service
