


Why would Texas Republicans object to conservative, pro-family developers?
Because they’re Muslim, of course
A few steps past torn and twisted steel beams from the destroyed World Trade Centre, the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas, projects clips of Mr Bush speaking in the days after the attacks of September 11th 2001. In different settings he is by turns sorrowful, fierce and resolute, yet the video shows he also struck another note, not just of tolerance but of goodwill towards people some Americans might immediately suspect as enemies. Six days after the attacks Mr Bush spoke at a mosque, the Islamic Centre of Washington, DC. “These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith,” he informed the country. Islam, he said, “is peace”.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Deep in the heart”

America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
A visit to the second biggest, in Georgia, shows what that looks like

Demand for American degrees is sinking
Trump’s war on universities is driving talent away

America has found a new lever to squeeze foreigners for cash
Donald Trump’s tax bill targets foreigners with alarming levies
How young voters helped to put Trump in the White House
And why millennials and Gen Zers are already leaving the president
America’s Senate plans big changes for the House’s spending bill
What to expect from the upper chamber
MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms
A dispatch from the library that straddles the US-Canada border