Clampdowns

Trump’s War on the Hungry Continues With Supreme Court Stay

Border Patrol Agents Replace Top Leadership at ICE Offices Despite Human Rights Violations

A Border Patrol Agent Bragged About Shooting Someone, Texts Show

ICE forcibly detains daycare worker amid scrutiny over excessive force use

Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict?

What Trump can and can’t do with the Insurrection Act

Most Americans Are Seeing the Dangers of Trump’s Authoritarianism

Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids

A Higher Duty: The Military’s Obligations to the Constitution

Trump’s National Guard deployments aren’t random. They were planned years ago

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks

DHS’ Racist Social Media Posts Beloved by Neo-Nazis and Other Extremists, and They Know It

Wife of British journalist ‘abducted by ICE’ speaks out: ‘We’re being kept in the dark’

SCOTUS holds off ruling on Trump’s Nat’l Guard request, leaving troops blocked from Illinois for now

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests

As Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group, experts see danger

ICE is out of control and beyond repair

Trump’s Power Grab is Headed for the Supreme Court

Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats

ICE’s Spending on Weaponry Is Up More Than 700 Percent Over Last Year

Trump Admits Americans Didn’t Vote for His Military Crackdowns

The ‘antifa’ fiction: How to criminalize dissent

Portland Feds Are Escalating Chaos at ICE Protests

The Ninth Circuit’s 2-1 Oregon National Guard order was just the start of getting to an answer

Trump claims ‘unquestioned power’ in vow to send troops to San Francisco

Immigration agents have held more than 170 Americans against their will, ProPublica finds

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

The IRS may not have been weaponized before, but buckle up

What to know about federal charges against former national security adviser John Bolton

How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Target Nonprofits and Activists

Targets of Trump’s Justice Department must pay up, even if they win

The Attack Dog Targeting Trump Opponents Over Their Paperwork Hasn’t Even Filed His Own

He Studies Fascism. Is He Now Living Through It?

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James

He’s never “just joking”

Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

American Gulag

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump’s invasion of Portland

When Trump demands prosecutions, his DOJ now obeys

ICE Is Hounding Chicago Area Locals With Excessive Chemical Munitions

Trump is the insurrection

The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

Why Trump hasn’t invoked the Insurrection Act yet

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

Portland And Beyond

Trump’s March on Chicago

Trump’s Plan

Trump’s invasion

Trump sets sights on liberal mega-donor George Soros: ‘A chilling message to other donors’

Comey Indictment: It’s Mafia Politics and Trump Is the Don

UCLA chancellor warns of ‘red lines we cannot cross’ in negotiations with Trump administration

The MAGA Crusade to Take Down American Science and Medicine

The Wildly Unqualified Lawyer Trump Just Named to Prosecute His Enemies

Baltimore Mayor to Trump: Don’t Send Your Troops

Who’s Part of Trump’s “Radical Left”? Maybe You.

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War

The Method in Trump’s Madness

A sharp picture of the personal nature of Trump’s disregard for the rule of law

It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy

‘It’s a capitulation’: Berkeley grieves as its university bends to Trump

Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal.

Domestic deployment blues

Immigrant rights activists braced for crackdown as Trump threatens to target ‘leftwing’ groups

Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case

The lawyers who caved

The crackdown on Charlie Kirk critics has ignited a free speech debate. Legal experts say it sets a dangerous precedent.

‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center

House Republicans, with key Dem support, took aim at D.C. on Tuesday

Beyond ‘draining the swamp’: How Trump is knocking down checks on presidential power

Trump Is Firing Federal Workers Over Beliefs He Doesn’t Like

Vance, White House promise to ‘go after’ left-leaning organizations

In Chicago, ICE Creates a Regime of Terror

The Difference Between the Coup Plotters Who Are Held to Account and Those Who Aren’t

Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear

When All Protest Is Terrorism

ICE Scraps Paperwork Rules So Masked Agents Can Arrest People Faster

John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’

The American Dictator

Trump’s Mortgage Fraud Smears Backfire on His Administration

Dems Are Focused on Health Care But Trump’s Power Grab Looms Over Gov’t Funding Fight

Is Trump Building His Own Okhrana?

Why Trump is targeting Boston and its Democratic mayor as part of his ‘immigration enforcement blitz’

Is it law enforcement or is it retribution?

Trump’s domestic troop deployments aren’t about crime – they’re about intimidation

How the Education Department is using civil rights laws to bring schools to heel

Trump extends his reach into Congress in ways large and small

Selective Enforcement: Trump’s Abuse of Power Hits New Lows

Donald Trump says he is not a dictator. Isn’t he?

Florida crosswalk wars take DeSantis’s ‘war on woke’ to street level

In Trump’s D.C., the Swamp Runneth Over

Trump wants to shake up the Fed. Stephen Miran has a playbook.

How Seriously Should You Take Trump’s Revenge Tour?

DOJ to grant itself authority to tap any attorney to serve as an immigration judge

Epstein survivors join with lawmakers in calling for full release of government files

Inside Pete Hegseth’s Civilian Purge at West Point

Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard as feud continues

Trump’s Pick to Help Run the FBI Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats

The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History

Foot Soldiers of the Trump Mafiacracy

Trump’s red state army threatens America’s cities

Welcome to the “Chilling Stage” of Tyranny—Where the Tyrant Tightens His Grip

Who Really Controls the National Guard? The Second Amendment Debate We’ve Ignored

A commuter college thought it could avoid Trump’s education crackdown. Here’s what happened

Confusion, explosive anger, waiting: A ‘quiet’ day in New York immigration court

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

Donald Trump Is Waging a Whole-of-Government Retribution Campaign

Trump’s targeting of Black communities is not a coincidence

Trump’s attacks on the ‘Blacksonian’ have a history in a century-old myth

Government workers are ‘canary in coalmine’ for Trump bid to gut union rights, leaders warn

Meet the Trump housing official leading probes into the president’s foes

Conduct Unbecoming

‘We are arresting the mayor right now, per the deputy attorney general’

Trump’s Pro-Crime Power Grab

Moving The Window

Exactly what is in the Ivy League deals with the Trump administration – and how they compare

How Trump is using ‘pure lies’ about high crime in US cities to justify federal takeovers

Union-Buster in Chief

Mayors of Democratic cities beyond D.C. decry Trump’s takeover threats

Trump administration ousts FBI official who refused to name agents who investigated January 6

Justice Department to begin giving Congress files from Jeffrey Epstein investigation, lawmaker says

DOJ manufactures another lawsuit to block in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

US universities’ settlements with Trump ‘will only fuel his authoritarian appetite’

Trump contorts timeline of jobs report revisions in effort to justify firing BLS chief

The Plot To Militarize America

Desecrating DOJ

Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration

How Authoritarians “Cook the Books”

How Our History Became “Divisive”

Trump administration reportedly suspends $200m in grants to UCLA

How an 18th-century law enabled internment – and may do so again

Pete Hegseth’s aides used polygraphs against their own Pentagon colleagues

ICE Plans to Build More Tent Jails for Immigrants. What Could Go Wrong?

The Fine Print of Trump Fascism

Trump’s Complaint About One Judge Is An Attack On The Entire Judiciary

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.

‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse

Trump Is Making Thousands of Rule-Abiding Immigrants Undocumented

ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest

How Anti-Affirmative Action Crusaders Are Escalating Their War on Inclusive Democracy

SCOTUS’s immunity ruling looks even worse now

Columbia announces deal to pay Trump administration more than $220m

Trump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program eligibility

The supreme court is giving a lawless president the green light

Far beyond Harvard, conservative efforts to reshape higher education are gaining steam

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America

How Trump is using the courts to get what he wants – and changing the shape of presidential power

Why Can Trump Sue You, But You Can’t Sue Him?

This week’s Neville Chamberlain Award Goes to Sian Beilock. Who’s She?

Trump’s CECOT prisoners were released, but the legal fight is nowhere near over

For Women Seeking Asylum in the United States, Things Are About to Get Harder

The USDA wants states to hand over food stamp data by the end of July

The Dangerous Plan to Turn Military Lawyers Into Immigration Judges

ICE Agents Are Harassing the Courthouse Volunteers Who Assist Besieged Immigrants

Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze

‘Political theatre’: key takeaways from US universities’ House antisemitism hearing

George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.

Trump officials used shadowy website to target pro-Palestinian academics for deportation, court records show

The Law Firms’ Deals With Trump Are Looking Worse and Worse

The Trump Administration’s Multi-Front Assault on Federal Research Funding

Senate GOP plots how to move Trump’s $9.4B clawbacks request

Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges

Bombshell report alleges El Salvador disclaimed responsibility for those U.S. sent to CECOT

Now the Second (and Worse) Stage of Trump’s Police State

We Asked Trump’s Former Prisons Chief How $45 Billion Will Reshape Immigrant Detention

Has Trump taken leadership lessons from cold war-era Africa?

Louisiana Is Bulldozing the Right of Prisoners to Prove Their Innocence After a Conviction

Don’t be fooled: A national abortion ban is still the GOP goal

Thomas Jefferson would be horrified

Trump sent ‘explicit’ threat to cut funds from University of Virginia, senator says

John Roberts puts off deciding where he stands on fascism

Republicans target unions, religious freedom, and courts that challenge Trump

Trump’s secret police are terrorizing American streets

Trump’s Use of Federal Troops in Drug Raid Outside of Los Angeles: An Alarming Escalation

Gestapo: You Guys Look Like Fucking Criminals

Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy

The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states

Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown

How Trump has targeted Harvard’s international students — and what the latest court ruling means

Los Angeles unrest signals difficult choices ahead for cops

The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol

‘He’s moving at a truly alarming speed’: Trump propels US into authoritarianism

What happened to “states’ rights”?

Trump administration notches first big win in assault on higher education

Trump’s focus on blue state deportation belies a red state problem

Federal Monitor Slams NYPD Unit Whose Aggressive Policing ProPublica Exposed

How US cities have long planned for a Trump-led escalation against protests

In California, Trump finds his perfect antagonist

Federal judge says Trump’s National Guard activation was illegal, but appeals court stays order

LA protester charged with assaulting officer says he was the one attacked: ‘I thought I was going to die’

ICE’s novel strategy allows for more arrests from inside immigration courts

The McIver Indictment Explained

Where are the people the Trump administration has deported?

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”

Who has been arrested by ICE under Trump?

All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities

What Trump’s national emergencies could mean for American democracy

A U.S. Citizen Married an Immigrant. Trump Tore Their Life Apart.

‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget

MIT class president barred from graduation after speaking out on Gaza

The First Casualty in the War Against Elite Universities

The White House is deporting people to countries they’re not from. Why?

The fallout from Trump’s war on Harvard will long outlast his presidency

The Jewish Students Punished in the Name of Jewish Safety

Trump’s deals with law firms are like deals ‘made with a gun to the head,’ lawyers say

What is Project Esther, the playbook against pro-Palestine movement in US?

The Trump admin’s mockery of the courts goes beyond defiance

Law for lawlessness

Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education

Jed Rubenfeld: Trump’s Lawless Attack on Harvard

Fear on campus: Harvard’s international students in ‘mass panic’ over Trump move

Trump’s DOJ Is Now Coming For Members Of Congress

Prosecuting a Member of Congress

Like many populist leaders, Trump accuses judges of being illegitimate obstacles to safety and democracy

U.S. deportation tracker: Counting arrests, detentions and border crossings

DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman

ActBlue CEO: We shouldn’t have stayed so quiet amid GOP salvos

Fear Isn’t Strategy—It’s the Goal

DOJ sends warning to judges and lawmakers who stoke Trump’s wrath on immigration

Confronting the Arrogant Lawlessness

‘From all sides’: universities in red states face attacks from DC and at home

Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into New York attorney general

How proposed changes to higher education accreditation could impact campus diversity efforts

University of Washington faces federal review after pro-Palestinian protest

Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show

Congress Funded Head Start. The Trump Administration Is Holding Up the Money.

How Trump Will Use “Anti-Christian Bias” to Entrench His Power

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

Attacks on Higher Ed and the New Illiberal Electorate

Does Nayib Bukele’s campaign against democracy give a blueprint for Trump?

Trump administration says Harvard will receive no new grants until it meets White House demands

Von der Leyen, Macron knock Trump’s war on universities as ‘gigantic miscalculation’

The ruling against Trump’s law firm order shows how to respond in this moment

What’s Driving Trump’s Attack on Museums

Trump vows to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status: ‘It’s what they deserve!’

No, the President Cannot Enforce the Law-Firm Deals

Arresting a Judge

Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why?

Meet the New American Refugees Fleeing Across State Lines for Safety

What to Know about the Trump Administration Task Force Targeting Harvard

The Trojan Horse of Campus Antisemitism

Nonprofits Under Attack

Bukele’s Authoritarian Aesthetic

Was Canadian Women Detained for Profit?

Columbia University’s Capitulation Puts Higher Ed at Risk

Voting & Elections

2025 Elections: Voters Came Out in Record Numbers to Defend Key Civil Liberties Issues Across the Country

Democrats focus on affordability over climate goals as midterm elections loom

Prominent anti-abortion group announces $80 million midterm investment

Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown

A look at prominent people pardoned by Trump after they tried to overturn his 2020 election loss

Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom: ‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’

The Mamdani effect: Experts predict more millennial, Gen Z candidates will run for office

Democrats just won back Latinos who voted for Trump. Will they be convinced to stick around?

Mikie Sherrill on why there’s too much “caution” and “mediocrity” in the Democratic Party

After California’s vote to counter Trump, here’s where redistricting stands

Pod Save America podcasters host CPAC ‘for the left’

Redistricting pressure heats up after Prop 50’s passage: ‘All Democratic elected officials should take note’

Zohran Mamdani Drags the Democratic Party Into the Future

Welcome (back) to the era of the perpetual gerrymander

Mid-decade redistricting and the midterms: How redrawn maps impacts the battle for the US House

Mamdani’s youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he’s now a national leader

Who are the midterm 2026 swing voters at play? What pollsters are saying

California is voting on redistricting. An election skeptic runs the process in one county

The New Jersey bellwether testing Trump’s Latino support

Obama to rally Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey in weekend campaign push before Election Day

The American dream feels impossible for many young voters, who see no political fix

Democrats plot messaging blitz ahead of Obamacare hikes

Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country

Ohio commission and Virginia lawmakers consider moves toward mid-decade congressional redistricting

Twilight of the Democratic Influencer Candidates

The Totally Outlandish, Dead Serious Campaign to Defeat Nancy Pelosi and Transform the Democratic Party

Trump ramps up involvement in this year’s elections in possible preview of midterms pressure

Trump keeps flirting with the idea of a third term. That would be unconstitutional

Majority of California likely voters say they support Prop 50, poll shows

Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state’s redistricting push

The Republicans thwarting the White House’s redistricting hopes

The New York City mayor’s race is an ethics test

The DOJ’s “election monitoring” is really voter suppression

Red states are preparing for an end to the Voting Rights Act

Democrats get aggressive on remapping congressional lines

Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party

Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’

How New Jersey’s verdict on Trump and one other leader is shaping the governor’s race

Fight over new US House districts in California could turn on advertising edge in closing days

Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it’s dropped off

Mamdani’s rise in NYC reflects a generational fight within the Democratic Party

Democrats Keep Falling for Political Fantasies. When Will They Learn?

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out.

The Pendulum Effect

How Maine Became a Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party

What’s happening with Marjorie Taylor Greene? Why the Maga loyalist has won some Democratic fans

These voters want to overturn Missouri’s new gerrymandered congressional map

The 2026 Election Is Being Decided at the Supreme Court

A town-by-town snapshot of huge political change in one key state — and what it means in 2025, 2026 and beyond

Stakes are high for voting rights as Supreme Court again tackles Louisiana redistricting dispute

Crypto spent millions to defeat Sherrod Brown and elect allies. It’s ready for a repeat in 2026

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat?

Mamdani Courts the Cops

In Utah, a group that helped prompt the redistricting says it’s acting on faith

‘The stakes are quite large’: US supreme court case could gut Voting Rights Act

The voters who will swing California’s Prop 50 battle

More states are moving to redraw US House districts after Trump urged it for partisan gain

Tensions are high in a Utah redistricting fight that didn’t start with Trump

Schumer’s leadership is increasingly toxic among Senate candidates

Kamala Harris backs Zohran Mamdani in New York mayoral race

Why Democrats can’t match Trump’s gerrymander push

Why Tuesday’s special election in Arizona marks a milestone for Latinas in politics

The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data

Trump’s call to end mail-in voting creates a dilemma for GOP candidates who benefit from it

What a Billion Dollars Can Buy in a Senate Race

Election deniers now hold posts on local US election boards, raising concerns for midterms

Dems unleash House primary challenges in war on gerontocracy

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul backs NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

Democrats will ‘either adapt or die’ as strategists push them onto new platforms

Democrats face a gerrymandering armageddon. This didn’t have to happen

After Missouri, what state is next? A redistricting race started by Trump continues

Why Hakeem Jeffries hasn’t been able to bend Democrats to his will on redistricting

Josh Kraft, son of billionaire Patriots owner, drops out of Boston mayor’s race against Michelle Wu

Zohran Mamdani maintains big lead in New York mayor’s race, new poll finds

Protecting The Right To Vote

Democratic Voters Want Their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani

Key 2025 elections approach with Trump approval, congressional maps at stake: What to watch in November

Texas Democrat James Talarico to launch Senate bid next week

Can Federal Troops Be Stationed At The Polls In 2026?

A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally

Texas Redistricting Fight Has Been Testing Ground for the Trump Admins Latest Legal Strategy

‘He’s trying to rig the midterms’: Trump intervenes to protect his allies in Congress

Democrats pounce in reliably red Iowa, fueled by special election hopium

New congressional maps will test the Latino vote in the 2026 election

Democrats seize on Utah in redistricting war

Trump’s plan to deploy federal troops to suppress the 2026 vote

White House Gives Indiana GOP Another Chance to Bend the Knee On Redistricting

Fulton county election board faces $10,000 a day fine for not appointing Republicans

The Framers wanted the House closest to the people. Redistricting may undermine that

Democrats break GOP supermajority in Iowa Senate by flipping Republican seat in special election

Pennsylvania must stop throwing out mail ballots over date errors, court rules

Trump’s focus on excluding migrants from census is just one of several issues with preparations for 2030 count, experts say

Redistricting plans in 50 states, graded (correctly)

Republicans are trying to ensure we’ll never have another fair election

Dems brace for battle over 2028 primary calendar to ‘explode’

Zohran Mamdani leads in fundraising for New York City mayoral contest

Joe Gruters, a Trump ally, elected new head of Republican National Committee

Trump’s plot against the 2026 midterms

John Roberts Is Responsible For America’s Embarrassing Gerrymandering Mess

Trump Allies Bully Indiana GOP With Primary Threats Amid Redistricting Pressure Campaign

Did Non-Voters Really Flip Republican? Part III with Updated Data

Why Conservatives Are Trying to Kill the Voting Rights Act

Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’

Trump prompted a battle over voting maps. Here’s how redistricting affects voters

As Republicans face voters during tense town halls, it’s about sticking to the script

The Democratic Youth (er, Young Adult) Movement Arrives

Blue State Republicans Helped Win the House Majority. The Redistricting Wars May End Their Careers.

As Texas pushes redistricting plan to add 5 GOP House seats before 2026 elections, other states may follow

‘We’re just tired of playing by the rules:’ Newsom bets 2028 chips on redistricting power play

The Mamdani effect: how his primary win is inspiring young progressives to run for office

The 20 Elections to Watch in August

Panic! At The (Re)disco

Several former Justice Department attorneys seek elected office — some to fight policies enacted by Trump

How Trump became the new master of the Senate

Gavin Newsom may call special election to redraw California congressional maps

Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics

Texas legislators bet the ranch

Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy

How to Rig an Election Without Touching a Machine

Democratic Governors Have a Fix for the Party: Themselves

Lessons for Zohran Mamdani From New York’s Most Successful Socialist

Desperate Houselines

Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win

It’s a year of rapid change, except when it comes to Trump’s approval numbers, AP-NORC polling finds

Inside Trump’s plan to keep control of Congress in 2026

Accessible Voting is Under Attack 35 Years After the ADA

Democrats rally in Texas over Trump order to redraw districts: ‘The only way they can keep power is to cheat’

Some of Mamdani’s platform is surprisingly similar to Bloomberg’s, experts say

The White House wants more states to redraw House maps to help GOP. Democrats are readying a fight

Questions about Epstein files follow lawmakers home

Republicans plan to use the threat of impeachment as a key midterm issue

The Texas Jigsaw Massacre

Steve Kornacki: How redistricting could change the fight for the House majority

How Schumer is preparing for the fall funding showdown

According to our research, 11% of Trump voters can be won back. Here’s how

Mamdani’s social media savvy comes at a cost

Democrats in South Carolina are barely pretending they’re not already running for president

For Muslims, Mamdani’s rise signifies a new way of looking at who represents America

How can Democrats win back working-class voters? Change their tune

Muslim donors flood Mamdani’s campaign for NYC mayor, see national impact

A playbook is forming for younger candidates. The results have so far been mixed

The future of the Voting Rights Act is at the Supreme Court

‘Crazy hill to die on’: Newsom jolts California with bid to throw out House maps

Wyoming Is Now Requiring Would-be Voters to Document Their Citizenship

Blame John Roberts for Enabling Trump’s Massive Power Grab in Texas

Mamdani meets with congressional Democrats who praise his campaign

Chicago Has a Warning for Zohran Mamdani

Crypto industry amasses colossal war chest for elections

Takeaways from AP report on Democrats already lining up for the 2028 presidential race

Dems couldn’t save Biden’s energy programs — so they’ll try to make them a weapon against the GOP

Here’s what voters should do if they get a proof-of-citizenship request in Arizona’s Maricopa County

Jon Ossoff, Democrats’ most vulnerable senator, sharpens Trump criticism in a state Trump won

Young Democrats have called for a rebrand. They’re vying to replace the party’s old guard

Zohran Mamdani’s videos are a masterclass. Eric Adams’s posts are getting more bizarre

House Democrats decry health cuts in GOP tax law during town hall that previews midterms messaging

What’s the Real Reason Musk Wants a Third Party?

Redrawing Texas: the Republican plan to stack the decks for the midterms

How Miami’s city commission gave themselves an extra year in office without voters’ permission

The People Who Brought You Bill Clinton Want to Introduce You to the ‘Colorado Way’

It’s Brad Lander’s Victory, Too

Gov. Tony Evers’ re-election decision looms over battleground Wisconsin

Rep. Mark Green resigns from Congress, leaving Speaker Johnson with an even narrower Republican majority in the House

Will Trump’s megabill help Democrats win the House?

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.

‘A true believer’: Brad Lander’s failed NYC mayoral campaign has won him a wave of good will

Mail-in voting rates dropped but early in-person voting is a hit, federal report shows

Open North Carolina Senate seat poised to be a 2026 blockbuster race

Where the Voting Rights Act stands after the Supreme Court punts on a Louisiana case

What Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York City means for the Democratic Party nationally

Will the Midterms Be a Blowout?

Dems Need To Get Serious About Partisan Voter Registration

How opponents on the left are banding together to try to stop Andrew Cuomo in New York City

‘Weak,’ ‘whiny’ and ‘invisible’: Critics of DNC Chair Ken Martin savage his tenure

Bernie Sanders dives into a key House battleground Trump carried in 2024 with a new endorsement

How New York City’s Shattered Political Culture Made Cuomo’s Comeback Possible

The Democrats’ “Great Un-awokening” is a Giant Political Diversion

Trump is steamrolling congressional Republicans. What’s in it for them?

The Real Democratic Civil War

‘Political violence is a sickness’: Elected officials worry that attacks will escalate

DOJ pushes election fraud BS, as Big Law does Trump’s dirty work

Headlines Scream That Democrats Are Doomed Come 2030—But The Reality Is Murkier

Breaking down 20 years of election data that shows how the two parties have evolved in the Trump era

‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed

Dems are quietly forming a think tank to help them win again

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in South Carolina remarks, calls on Democrats ‘to be a little meaner’

Wes Moore, Tim Walz urge for a fiercer Democratic party at famed Jim Clyburn Fish Fry

Democrats ponder the ‘manosphere’

1-vote victory for Trump’s big bill inflames Democratic clash over aging leaders

Republicans plan attack ads on Democrats in Trump districts who opposed GOP agenda bill

Will a disputed North Carolina race push defeated candidates to contest results?

Amy Klobuchar to Democrats: don’t rule out female candidate in 2028 after Harris loss

Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms

New York City Is About to Make a Huge Mistake

FDR united Democrats under the banner of ‘liberalism’ − but today’s Democratic Party has nothing to put on its hat

GOP-led states are passing new restrictions for voters to get issues on the ballot

Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms

Cuomo was a same-sex marriage champion. He’s not courting LGBTQ+ votes now.

Angus King III announces run for governor of Maine

Trump hasn’t said who funded his presidential transition effort despite pledging to disclose donors

Republicans Persist In Newest Voter Suppression Fad Despite Evidence That It Hurts Their Constituents Too

Balancing Trump criticism and bipartisanship, Democrat Jon Ossoff walks a fine line in Georgia

Trump brands his opponents as ‘communists,’ a label loaded with the baggage of American history

The 25 Elections to Watch This May

Inside the Trump White House’s early 2026 midterm strategy

‘The Dumbest S–t Ever’: Ex-Pelosi Adviser Gets Candid About Jeffries

Inside JB Pritzker’s public and private efforts to counter Trump and challenge fellow Democrats

He was born in North Carolina. Republicans say he’s a ‘never resident’ and want to throw out his vote

Long-running legal saga over N.C. Supreme Court race could pave way for future election challenges

The GOP Keeps Losing Public Abortion Votes. So It’s Trying This Absurd Ploy.

Roberts Owns It All: From Citizens United to Trump’s Coup

A warning for Democrats from the Gilded Age and the 1896 Election

The 20 Elections to Watch This April

SAVE Act Targets Women Voters

The Most Extraordinary Attack on Voting Rights in American History

Civil Liberties

Is Same-Sex Marriage In Danger At SCOTUS?

Details of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks of Trump Administration’s Use of Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks

God’s Chief Justice

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later

US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future

Comey Moves To Dismiss

Many States Regulate the Scanning of ID Barcodes; Why Don’t They Offer Similar Protections for Digital Driver’s Licenses?

Supreme Court likely to further diminish — but not end — Voting Rights Act cases

The Trump regime’s attacks on our rights double as an affront to democracy

Voting Rights Are on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block

When they Bukele the Courts

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

I Watched Every Pam Bondi Speech — And Found a Justice Department in Trump’s Shadow

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump?

Workers Demand Justice for Immigrants as More Die in ICE Custody

A Letter From Detained Journalist Mario Guevara

Bondi’s DOJ knows how to slow walk the bad cases

Trump has crossed the reddest line

5 Reasons Same-Sex Marriage Might Not Be as Safe as You Think

Sisterhood sustained her for 141 days in ICE custody. Now she’s fighting for those still inside.

Judge criticizes Trump admin, blocks effort to quickly deport children to Guatemala

Texas Congressman Says Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

The Supreme Court Greenlit the President’s Political Prosecutions—Even Unlawful Ones

Judge denies relief to men Trump admin sent to Ghana in questioned agreement

Trump Education Department to divert grants from colleges serving students of color

The Supreme Court Says ICE Can Consider Race, But Colleges Can’t.

An under-the-radar effort to curtail civil society

Is Ketanji Brown Jackson the great dissenter of the Roberts court?

San Francisco Gets An Invasive Billionaire-Bought Surveillance HQ

How Expanded 287(g) Program Turns Local Police Into Deportation Agents

SCOTUS rejects S.C. request to enforce anti-trans restroom policy against trans student

A push to ditch Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban hinges on this year’s elections

Breaking: Feds indict LGBTQ org lawyer over testimony in Alabama “judge-shopping” investigation

Affirmed: E. Jean Carroll Case

Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

Pastor Doug Wilson’s fringe teachings go mainstream in Trump’s Washington

LGBTQ+ Americans consider move to Canada to escape Trump: ‘I’m afraid of living here’

Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes

Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women

Federal judges are frustrated by defiance from the Trump administration and fuzziness from the Supreme Court

House Dems Blast Labor Department For Abandoning Disabled Workers

The Posse Comitatus Act comes for Trump’s authoritarianism

Can the marriage of “two great ideals…democracy and racial equality” survive the Supreme Court?

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

Federal judge signs off on DOJ and Oklahoma’s sham anti-immigrant lawsuit

‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials

Right-wing media endorse a potential Supreme Court challenge to same-sex marriage

Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

Revisiting America’s Dark History of Internment

Trump’s flag burning executive order flames out

Slouching Into Fascism

Are we living in a dictatorship yet?

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

A fascist regime baring its teeth

Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions

Judge blocks State’s use of Trump’s travel ban to reject visa applications

Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade

Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown

Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance

Park ranger fired after helping drape a transgender pride flag on Yosemite’s El Capitan

Government Documents Show Police Disabling AI Oversight Tools

President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare

“What They Did There Was Torture Us”

Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”

Trump delivers a steady stream of wins for his conservative Christian base

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats

Data Brokers Are Ignoring Privacy Law. We Deserve Better.

US judge whose son was murdered voices dismay as threats to jurists rise

The kangaroo-fication of the courts

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People

Your Questions Answered: The Supreme Court’s Impact On Our Rights

Trump executive orders are marching towards the Supreme Court

You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name

Ibram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”

District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS’s order

Democratic senators raise concerns about a new Trump citizenship data system

Abortion policy in Virginia isn’t settled: Why this year’s election is key

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

Trump’s denaturalization threat should be taken seriously

How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally

What is Liberalism?

‘Harvey would say, we’re on the brink’: why conservatives are coming for a gay rights hero

SCOTUS’s parental rights messages: Protect anti-LGBTQ views, ignore LGBTQ people

Taking away your citizenship

After CASA: The Administrative Procedure Act Option for Challenging the Birthright Citizenship and Other Illegal Executive Actions

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

Supreme Court’s injunction decision a major blow to efforts to block executive policies but not the end

Thousands of LGBTQ+ Veterans Were Supposed to Get Pardons. A Year Later, Only Four Have Succeeded.

10 Years After Marriage Equality, Jim Obergefell — and America — Are Still Trying to Move On

Packing the Courts

The Roberts Court exists to give legal cover to bigots

3 Years After The Supreme Court Restricted Abortion Access, Contraception Is Also At Risk

The Court’s Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case

Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?

Federal judge blocks Rubio’s anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all

How Philadelphia Secured Basic Rights for 750,000 Workers

US supreme court upholds Tennessee ban on youth gender-affirming care

About the Supreme Court’s unanimous decisions

The Department of Energy Is Quietly Slashing Disability Rights

What the Marriage Equality Backlash Taught Me About the Fight for Trans Rights

In Louisiana, Some Court Officials Get Paid to Evict

The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information

AI Surveillance Won’t Stop Theft, but It Might Stop Unions

Linda McMahon unsure if teaching Black history flouts Trump’s anti-DEI policy

Federal judge protects trans care for federal prisoners, blocking Trump order for now

Trump Disappeared Them to El Salvador. Now, They’re Being Erased by Immigration Courts.

Why Trump and Bukele are destroying Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s life

Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

The Supreme Court made your rights harder to defend — Congress must now step up

The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls

George Takei: How the Alien Enemies Act Was Weaponized to Incarcerate My Family

FBI “Top Priority” Cases

A Quiet Threat to Veterans’ Civil Rights

4 upcoming SCOTUS decisions that may destroy our rights

The ‘Invasion’ Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy

These mothers fought for their sons killed by police. Now they’re fighting for the country.

Police Brutality Is Part of Our Democratic Crisis

Abandoning Victims of Human Trafficking

The Supreme Court Makes Sure the Law Does Not Get in the Way of Trump’s Takeover

Trump Mainstreaming White Supremacist Propaganda

Class Actions Might Be The Surprise Fix For Problems With Universal Injunctions

The Christian Right’s Plot to Purge Pro-Palestine Activism From the United States

Trump-Appointed Leader Of Worker Protection Agency Directs Focus On DEI, ‘Binary Reality of Sex’

Five years after George Floyd’s death, calls to reform qualified immunity mostly fall silent

A Trump executive order takes a sledgehammer to key civil rights tool

Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court

Trump’s dangerous projects follow a predictable pattern

Judges have a warning about Trump’s rapid deportations: Americans could be next

House panel on campus antisemitism likened to cold-war ‘un-American’ committee

A DACA recipient had permission to leave the country but was deported when he returned

Maine fought the law, and Maine won

Another judge skewers Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations to El Salvador

What the Constitution, Supreme Court say about ‘due process’ for Trump deportees

Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids

The Supreme Court Is Declaring War on Secularism

The question of sanctuary jurisdictions returns to the courts

The Department of Justice has abandoned civil rights

Texas Jail Staff Laughed as Army Vet Choked and Died, Lawsuit Says

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

Trump’s war on ‘woke’: Both sides say the issue is further dividing the country

How Trump’s war on DEI is roiling US police: ‘it doesn’t mean work will stop’

The Supreme Court Is Trying to Normalize Its Own Anti-LGBTQ Animus

Rule of Law?

Habeas Corpus: 1000-Year-Old Legal Principle is Getting a Workout Under Trump Admin

Pope Francis said, “Heal the Wounds.” Trump’s America is doing the opposite.

Untangling The Deportation Cases

What are the President’s Powers Under the Insurrection and Militia Acts?

Trump’s Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All

Trump and Musk are Building AI-Driven Surveillance State

Government Agencies

Alleged politicization of public service student loan forgiveness sparks lawsuit against Trump administration

USDA transfers $13B into ‘slush fund’ for future tariff relief

Trump’s Minions Aim to Cut More Than 2,000 Interior Jobs During the Shutdown

How Senate Republicans finally said ‘no’ to Ingrassia

How the president expanded his power without a government

Trump fires another inspector general, raising fears about oversight independence

See where Interior is planning to lay off 2,000 employees

Trump’s latest order requires strategic plans reflective of presidential ‘priorities’ to resume hiring

Federal workforce losses are mounting, and agencies need a plan

5 Points on the Trump Admin’s Threatened—And Real—Government Shutdown Layoffs

Russell Vought is the tool of a dangerous elite

Trump’s purging of black officials makes latent racism official policy

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

Cabinet leaders detail how the government shutdown is impacting their agencies

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

Trump Conveniently Lands On New Legal Theory That He Claims Could Deprive Feds Of Backpay

Trump Is Weaponizing the USCIS for the First Time in the Agency’s History

Justice Department Turmoil Bubbles Up to the Surface

What schools stand to lose in the battle over the next federal education budget

Labor groups warn of ‘gaping hole’ in First Amendment if court OKs Trump’s anti-union orders

Trump budget office is hiding federal spending information, ethics nonprofit alleges

The Pyrrhic probationary victory

GOP Wrings Hands About Fraud After Crushing CFPB

Bill to nullify Trump’s union executive orders introduced by 48 senators

Democrats’ shutdown endgame is sketchy as deadline looms

GAO: Trump violated law for sixth time in withholding FEMA funds

Why GovCon should care about Trump’s disdain for oversight and accountability

Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked

Trump Doesn’t Need DOGE to Kneecap Independent Agencies

Federal agencies threaten, discipline employees for criticizing or mocking Charlie Kirk

Kash Patel’s FBI is a total mess

Democrats rally behind hardball strategy to upcoming shutdown fight

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

Inside Congress’ warring factions over how to fund the government

Trump campaigned on closing the Education Department. Reality is more difficult.

Social Security announces leadership team light on government experience

Report: Federal agencies have deployed nearly 33,000 employees to assist ICE

OPM lays out early plans for law enforcement-only pay raise

More unions sue following second edict banning them, alleging retaliation

What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear

How Trump and corporations have hobbled US labor watchdog

Bipartisan senators call for CDC oversight following firing of agency’s director

Federal collective bargaining is in the U.S. national interest

A fresh executive order aims to ban unions at more federal agencies

Trump freezes most training for non-ICE federal law enforcement

Appeals court will reconsider decision to allow Trump’s anti-union order to take effect

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

Front row seats to the end of the merit system

Fired FBI officials were not afforded due process rights, agent association argues

IRS is canceling its layoff plans, will ask some it fired or pushed out to return

Politicizing the federal grantmaking process

The Trump administration is considering notifying probationary employees they were fired for cause, actually

Trump administration seeks permission to finalize mass layoffs at HHS

Good government group alleges Commerce secretary violated federal ethics law

House Dems: Trump is starving inspectors generals of resources, blocking investigations

‘It’s just too much’: CDC employees have faced layoffs, vaccine misinformation and now — violence

All remaining DOGE staff are in political positions, despite concerns of ‘burrowing in’

This DOGE project is still full steam ahead

Smithsonian removes references to Trump impeachments at history exhibit

After shedding most employees, DOJ looks to shift around Civil Rights staff to fill ‘deep need’

Agency layoffs do not constitute illegal impoundments, GAO rules

Senate panel advances bills to protect whistleblowers, fix CBP workers’ retirement benefits

USDA says reorg disfavors layoffs, predicts most employees will accept relocations

2 independent watchdogs quietly replaced by Trump

DOGE and other day 1 Trump appointees head for the exits at multiple agencies

Court filing reveals which offices at 17 agencies the Trump administration had slated for layoffs

Outcry as US agriculture department to cut salaries and relocate staff

Employees Kept in the Dark as EPA Dismantles Scientific Research Office

Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?

OMB wants to break down barriers for CIOs, White House official says

‘It’s a madhouse’: US state department workers reeling after Trump’s firings

Trump’s anti-union EO can remain in effect during challenge, appellate court says

OPM urges ‘generous approach’ to approving religion-based telework

Environmental Protection Agency Retaliates Against Employees Protecting the Environment

U.S. senator wants DOGE out of sensitive payment system for farmers

Grassley launders new MAGA smear campaign against the FBI

Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut

Trump admin faces multi-front pushback on reported plans to cut most of DHS intel bureau

VA backs down on mass layoffs, will cut 30K through attrition only

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

DHS plans to shed most of its intel office workforce

Skilled scientists at these government agencies are quietly being let go, union reps say

‘I Believe His Account 100 Percent’: Former Colleagues Vouch for DOJ Whistleblower

Key climate change reports removed from US government websites

Following impoundments threat, new bill wants senior execs to get appropriations training, or else

Virginia lawmakers demand answers on Trump’s planned ‘displacement’ of NSF

Social Security Offices Brace for Birthright Ruling Fallout

All provisions targeting federal worker benefits, unions stricken from Senate reconciliation package

EPA employees sign ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Trump

Fired federal workers lobby for help on Capitol Hill – is anyone listening?

Cuts to FEMA and other agencies will lead to slow disaster response, former administrator says

House Dems warn Trump’s special counsel pick is anathema to job’s duties

State Dept. further prepares for mass layoffs even as court block remains

11 key allegations made in Erez Reuveni’s whistleblower disclosure about DOJ

HUD to move into the National Science Foundation headquarters, no current plan on where to relocate NSF employees

How shrinking the EPA could make wildfire smoke even more dangerous

Lawmakers demand review of VA’s AI-driven contract cuts

OPM calls for quicker firings, more stringent performance standards

Federal judge declines to order Trump officials to recover deleted Signal messages

A time machine tour of civil service reform

White House floats a new funding trick — and GOP lawmakers grimace

Trump watchdog nominees draw congressional scrutiny for political histories

Senate reconciliation bill would give Trump ‘carte blanche’ to reorganize agencies, lay off feds

“A Direct Attack on Women”: Lawmakers Demand Labor Secretary Preserve the Women’s Bureau

Employee groups challenge ‘favorite EO’ question as agencies begin rollout

The Fiscal State Under Siege: Why People Hate the IRS, and Why You Should Care

She served the American people for 35 years. Now her retirement income is on the line

Inside the Justice Dept. “rubber room,” where veteran lawyers do jigsaw puzzles and stream shows to pass time

Trump’s push for executive order loyalty risks undermining the federal workforce and the Constitution

Trump’s new civil service hiring plan: Merit or Meritless?

Like Elon Musk, Russ Vought wants to break Washington. Unlike the billionaire, the budget guru might just succeed.

Federal workforce advocates flood opposition to renewed Schedule F

Agencies ready to move quickly on RIFs if court block falls

Vought calls for more OMB staff after spearheading governmentwide cuts

From 1,300 to 81 workers: Trump official plans to cut Voice of America to the bone

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

CISA projected to lose a third of its workforce under Trump’s 2026 budget

Oversight Dems: Commerce reneged on probationers’ health benefits

Trump is planning to slash 107,000 federal jobs next year. See where

Pentagon won’t say how many civilians have left since February

Vought says Trump may not need Congress’s approval to cut federal workforce

Senators urge DHS to reinstate disbanded cyber review board

Republican Attacks On GAO Escalate After Office Condemns DOGE Cuts

Trump’s safety research cuts heighten workplace risks, federal workers warn

Another Trump Casualty: A Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

Judge says she is inclined to further pause layoffs at most major agencies

More than 2,100 GSA employees have accepted deferred resignations

The DOGE debacle, part 1

How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside the NIH

Musk Just Made Big Brother A Reality

DOGE’s data “panopticon” pales compared to what’s next

Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump Administration’s VA Cuts After ProPublica Investigation

IRS reverses staffing gains made under Biden

Some Republicans question Trump’s IRS budget cuts

Vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board is unexpectedly removed from position

Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials”

GOP may be closer than ever to enacting a massive rule-busting bill

As Musk steps back, experts say Doge cuts have harmed government services

At Social Security, these are the days of the living dead

Mass resignations at labor department threaten workers in US and overseas, warn staff – as more cuts loom

After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions

VA tech panel’s top Democrat worries layoffs will harm EHR rollout

Not giving up on the civil service

Democrats want a great new society post-Trump. They just can’t agree on what it will look like.

IRS-ICE Immigrant Data Sharing Agreement Betrays Data Privacy and Taxpayers’ Trust

Losing DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

The Most Remarkable Thing About Antitrust (that no one talks about)

Musk’s Actual Plan For DOGE Is Heartbreaking

Trump to Ask SCOTUS to Overturn Humphrey’s Executor

CFPB Shutdown is Really About Payment Apps

Protests & Pushbacks

‘Carry your light out into the shitstorm’ — a conversation with Joan Baez

A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake

Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’

Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks

Biglaw Is Largely Absent In Legal Challenges To Trump Policies

Fight On Everything

Defending ‘Sanctuary’ Principles During the Chicago Crackdown

Lessons from the movement to stop the ‘war on terror’

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right

Problems for Trump Everywhere He Looks

Have You Taken Freedom for Granted?

Democrats must not cave in to Donald Trump

What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now

Former senior DHS official Miles Taylor launches new web tool to plan protests against Trump administration

No Kings: Hope Rising and the Numbers Behind the Change

Full Ninth Circuit keeps Trump’s Oregon National Guard efforts blocked for now, tossing order that sided with Trump

How Governors and Mayors Can Protect Nonprofits from Trump’s NSPM-7

Can Democrats harness the energy of the No Kings protests to fight Trump?

The CDC Diaspora Fights Back

What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?

The 7th Circuit rejects lies about Chicago

What Should We Do NOW?

We Will Not Be Ruled

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience

The podcast showing what resistance looks like under Trump 2.0: ‘Where’s the progressive Project 2025?’

They’re Teachers, Nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump Administration Calls Them Antifa.

In backsliding democracy, ‘public mobilization is the guardrail’

Jack Smith Speaks

Thousands of years of law enforcement experience — lost

The Portland Chicken Has a Degree in Game Theory

‘Quintessentially Portland’: nude cyclists protest against national guard deployment

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

Democrats are captive to outdated norms. It’s endangering democracy

Your Questions Answered: How to Push Back on Abuses of Power

Remember — autocrats are not invincible. But be careful.

The trials of litigating against Trump

In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings − and for being skeptical

Sunrise Movement’s New Focus: Fighting Authoritarianism

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

Pair of lawsuits challenging Trump’s targeting of Chicago get first hearings

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

Courts confront militarized cities as Trump tests the waters with National Guard deployments

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism

Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist

To Feel Less Alone

Even if protests don’t hit 3.5%, the resistance can topple Trump

Trump and his regime are not invulnerable

The Democratic superlawyer Trump can’t silence: ‘We are in the break-glass moment of American history’

The sleeping giant is awakening

Where Have All the Boycotts Gone?

The Save America Movement launches Operation Liberty in LA

Be Loud — For America

State Lawmakers Are Getting Arrested at Detention Centers and Yelling at Masked ICE Agents. Good.

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

Civil disobedience and mass arrests outside immigration court in New York – in pictures

Feeling powerless doesn’t mean you are powerless

Jury finds LA protester not guilty of assaulting border patrol agent

American Democracy Might Be Stronger Than Donald Trump

Don’t Be Afraid To Speak Up

Now Is Not the Moment to Fall Silent

A Prosecutor Sues

Can Resistance Succeed?

What Would a No Kings Budget Look Like?

Democratic mayors are backing colleges even ‘if we’re going to get our a—es handed to us’

To police massive NYC protests, Mamdani looks to the Midwest

‘Free DC’: the group leading fight against Trump’s Washington takeover

When Government Is Afraid of the People, Tyranny Has No Chance

Should Democrats Shut the Government?

Holding vigil in “a post-USA America” as Trump orders the vigil gone

JB Pritzker Shows How to Handle Trump

It’s Not Yet Too Late to Save Our Democracy

Judge Spells Out the Danger of Trump’s Lawlessness

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down

Illinois v. Texas

In Chicago, we do not submit

A 1000 Labor Day Protests: A Wrap-Up

Meet the man defending Trump’s political adversaries

Are You More Driven by Inspiration or Outrage?

Can labor organizing provide the playbook for defending democracy?

The long history behind Trump’s war against blue states and cities

More DEI! Louder!

How to stop Trump’s National Guard weaponization

The Resistance is Active in DC—You’re Just Not Looking Closely Enough

The Texas Walkout and Anti-Fascist History. Remembering the Aventine Secession

Why Washington Residents Aren’t Flooding the Streets to Protest Trump

America’s Campuses: The Next Frontline Against Authoritarianism

How communities are stopping the White House’s illegal power grab

Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

Gavin Newsom’s moment

Sunday thought: America without a president

Democrats finally bring a gun to the gun fight

What Blue States should do if Red States super-gerrymander

Trump Promised to Eliminate Funding to Schools That Don’t Nix DEI Work—But Half of States Aren’t Complying

Attempted Silencing by Lawsuit: Why I Won’t Back Down

Eight rules of antiauthoritarianism

Opposition Party Decides to Oppose

Texas Democrats walked out to block the GOP. How well has the tactic worked before?

This week’s Joseph Welch Award

Ukrainian Protesters Remind Us How to Fight for Democracy

Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal

A Lesson From History: Judge Frank Johnson on the Right to Protest

Will free expression make a comeback at Haverford College?

We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty?

Culture Recs: Celebrating #MeToo Muckrakers and Whistleblowers

LA Grand Juries Are Refusing to Indict ICE Protestors

A new youth-led lawsuit is challenging Trump’s fossil fuel orders

Democrats wrestle with shutdown strategy

Why Democrats Must Think Hard About Voting to Fund the Government

To defeat Trump, the left must learn from him

What Today’s Reformers Can Learn From the Temperance Movement

Resist

Every Fight May Not End as We Hoped, but the Light of Women’s and LGBTQ+ Rights Will Always Burn Bright — As Long as We Keep Fighting

John Lewis’s Enduring Example

Democracy Needs a Proactive Defense. Sometimes, Banning Bad Actors Is OK.

5 scenarios for staving off a dictatorship

How ICE’s Arrest of a High School Student Activated a Massachusetts Town

Is the US Military Poised to Experience a New Surge in Conscientious Objectors?

Violence de-escalation trainings are key to making movements stronger

How Autocrats Disappear People and Information, and How We Can Fight Back

Evidence challenging the Trump admin’s immigration moves is now out in the open

As Democrats spoil for a fight, a new face in the House is leading them on oversight

What To Do About the Tinpot Dictator

Harvard’s Fight Is a Defense of Democracy and Civic Virtue

Independence Day Is Resistance Day

Why faith leaders are standing up to the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby

The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’

Trump adversaries see silver linings in his ‘monumental’ Supreme Court win

Let us not go gently into the night

Climate movement strikes back with first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit against EPA

Trump’s anti-union executive order has been blocked, again

How not to submit to a tyrant

University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver

Lessons in courage, care and collective action from the international accompaniment movement

Sen. Murkowski on why she’s having more talks than ever on the state of democracy

I study the resistance against the Nazis. Here’s what the US left can learn from it

50 years after the Vietnam War, the legacy of nonviolent resistance lives on

Do You Believe in People Power?

A collective action solution for law firms

Black church leaders pressure companies over Trump’s anti-DEI push

Trump admin continues its destructive path, but groups, judges keep pushing back

Why Standing Up Against Trump is Good for Business

Millions Protest Peacefully Against Trump: Great Images From All 50 States

‘This moment was thrust upon him’: Gavin Newsom steps up to parry Trump’s ‘wrecking ball’ attacks on American democracy

Millions in US expected to protest against Trump in ‘No Kings’ protests

Yes, protesting can help tyrants like Trump, with its scenes of disorder. But that’s no reason to stay at home

No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash

Which other US cities have joined LA’s protests over immigration raids?

Criminalizing Masks at Protests is Wrong

Urgent Message From Meidas…Trump Declares War

Stop bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance

At Columbia Graduation Event, Student Voices Rose

Veterans protest against Trump cuts at DC rally: ‘Promises made to us have come under attack’

Judge Calls Trump’s Deportation Operation Kafkaesque in Blistering Opinion

As Biglaw Shrinks From Taking on Trump, Boutiques Step Up

Time To Dust Off The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

Democratic AGs shift their focus to the next phase of their legal battle against Trump

Bill Clinton on opposing President Trump’s agenda: “We cannot throw the legacy of this country away”

Four queer business owners on Pride under Trump: ‘Our joy is resistance’

How to fight back against Trump? Look to poor people’s movements

What to do if you’re targeted by the White House

Undaunted: NPR

Civil Society is Mounting a Resistance to Trump—Business Leaders Must Follow Suit

Performers and opera lovers see ‘The Central Park Five’ as a show of resistance against Trump

Remembering an Act of Conscience and Courage

How to stand your ground, in three (not so easy) steps

Stand Up to the Bully

Indivisible: the mass movement leading the progressive fight against Trump

What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ teaches about resisting authoritarianism

Springsteen doubles down on political criticism with a digital EP that includes anti-Trump comments

How to Prevent The Orbanization of America

The Freedom-Loving Minutemen of Massachusetts Strike Again

Greenpeace remains determined to fight the corporate silencing of dissent

Protecting democracy is not enough: five things Americans must fight for

Popular Resistance to Trump Is Working

24-Hour Vigil to Save Medicaid Takes Over National Mall

Axed federal employees sit on Capitol steps urging lawmakers to protect public services they used to provide

I’m a brand new activist — here’s what got me to join others in the streets

Keep demonstrating against Trump — but also for a better future.

How to Tie Up the Most Precious Resource in Washington

Watergate and Trump: The role of citizens

The Banality of Complicity: Arendt’s Guide to Moral Resistance in the Age of Trump

Critics of law firms’ deals with Trump are starting a firm of their own

A ‘political prisoner’: US advocates rally for detained Georgetown scholar

Defiance is American

May Day, May Day!

In Poland, we know all about fighting illiberal regimes. Here are our lessons for the Trump age.

Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like

The Democratic Senator Who Silenced the Centrist Naysayers

May Day Protests—Everything you Need to Know

17 Ways to Disrupt the Status Quo in Your Hometown

Trump’s Autocracy is Growing—but Patriotic Opposition is Growing Faster

What Would a General Strike in the US Actually Look Like?

The American People Will Soon Prove Their Mettle or Not

The Effects of Anti-Tesla Actions

Foreign Policy

Ukraine says it has hit a major Russian oil refinery with long-range drones

London mayor sees parallels in Zohran Mamdani’s victory: ‘Hope won’

U.S. Saber Rattling and Venezuela: Lawful Show of Force or Unlawful Threat of Force?

Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook

Why is Donald Trump threatening military intervention in Nigeria?

Trump’s military pressure on Maduro evokes Latin America’s coup-ridden past

Trump places Nigeria on watch list over claims of anti-Christian violence

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked

Who is Doug Ford, the Canadian politician pushing Trump’s buttons?

Javier Milei hails ‘tipping point’ as his far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections

Would a written constitution save Britain from the far right?

US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports

‘The Threat of Force’: How Trump Might Push Out Maduro

Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that

Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics move leftward

Democratic Senators Probe ‘Apparent Neglect’ of Detained Flotilla Activists

The US and China are about to launch the next front in their trade war

Trump Has a Different Plan to Oust Maduro This Time Around

The U.K.’s Conservative Meltdown Looks Awfully Familiar

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Herschel Walker confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas

US has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since war in Gaza began, report says

Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

Trump says he won’t let Israel annex the West Bank

Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?

Trump administration proposes overhauling H-1B visa process for higher-paid workers

Trump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers say

Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent

Meet the youth-led pro-democracy movement making gains in Mozambique

The Foreign Policy Hits Just Keep On Coming

Former GOP officials fear US strikes on alleged drug smugglers aren’t legal

The UK is about to embrace Trump. The truth is, it needs him right now

US designates Colombia as failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time in nearly 30 years

Elon Musk Urges Brits to “Fight Back” Against Their Political Enemies

The Sanctions Paradox in 2025

One by one, leaders learn that grovelling to Trump leads to disaster. When will it dawn on Starmer?

Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels

Trump keeps moving the U.S. closer to being the fascist war machine he wants

US considers banning Iranians from shopping at Costco during UN meeting

Trump accuses Xi of conspiring against the U.S. with Putin and Kim at China military parade

Europeans crafting “precise plans” for post-war Ukraine deployments, with Trump’s backing, EU leader says

Trump’s anti-press tactics are bad enough in the US. Now Reform is importing them to the Midlands

The D.C. Circuit’s realpolitik orders in the foreign aid funding case

Steve Witkoff’s go-it-alone diplomacy is frustrating US and European officials

Foreign Diplomats Are Worried About the Rule of Law in Trump’s America

South Korea’s Lee set to meet Trump, with trade and security high on agenda

Standing By a Democratic Ally

Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves?

There is no ‘Trump doctrine’ in foreign policy. Just chaos

Humanitarian aid cuts leave victims of sexual violence in global conflicts without help, UN says

Half-Baked Alaska: Trump, Putin, and a Failure Decades in the Making

Trump abandons push for Ukraine ceasefire after Putin meeting

The Alaska summit was a spectacular distraction

Could the Rest of the World Unite Against Trump?

Trump’s politically motivated sanctions against Brazil strain relations among old allies

House Democrats sign on to letter urging Trump to recognise Palestinian statehood

Brazil’s Bolsonaro arrested, adding to tensions with Trump

Europe’s Future Depends on Confrontation, Not Compromise

Experts Say Foreign Governments Are ‘Playing Trump’ on Tariffs

New Report Exposes Extensive Network of Far-Right Hate and Extremist Groups in Spain

France, U.K., others plan to recognize a Palestinian state. What does that change?

“This Is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

How The Restraint Movement Lost Its Way

‘Horrors upon horrors’: How US Congress responded to mass hunger in Gaza

Congress Shrinking from the World: the Constitution’s Article I in the Shadow of Trump 2.0

Malnutrition, a lack of aid, and dead children: Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worsens

Rubio moves to strip US visas from eight Brazilian judges in Bolsonaro battle

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Felons First

Sudan has become a ‘case study’ for the impact of USAID cuts, aid worker says

An Attack on American Diplomacy

Why is Trump targeting Brazil – and will it backfire for Bolsonaro?

European leaders urge investment in Ukraine even as war accelerates, with new equity fund announced

MAGA’s Gift to China

Maga influencer and de facto national security adviser Laura Loomer holds outsized sway on Trump

How Trump’s policies are reshaping immigration enforcement in Puerto Rico

The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it?

Trump allies caught off guard by Pentagon’s Ukraine weapons freeze

Marco Rubio has abandoned his fight for freedoms

Trump turns trade talks into foreign policy wish list

US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs

As the UN turns 80, its crucial humanitarian aid work faces a clouded future

US’s worldwide popularity plummets thanks to ‘arrogant’ Trump

Inside the MAGA vs. hawk battle to sway Trump on bombing Iran

Canada plans to hit NATO spending target early and reduce reliance on US defense, Carney says

How the Proposed State Department Reorganization Guts U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy

Trump is strongarming companies elsewhere into cutting DEI. Those that cave in now will regret it later

UK has fingers in its ears over Trump’s defense threat

MAGA hits limits in its global ambitions

He is the strongman who inspired Trump – but is Viktor Orbán losing his grip on power?

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations

The Not-So-Secret Society Whose Members Run State

The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy

Trump plans to announce that the US will call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, officials say

Can Trump Handle the India-Pakistan Crisis?

Threatened by Trump tariffs, Japan walks a delicate tightrope between US and China

Americans used to be steadfast in their support for Israel. Those days are gone.

Loyalty matters most in race to become Trump’s next national security adviser

How Trump lost conservatives the Australian election

The ultra conservatives wanting to make the Vatican great again

I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces.

Little Marco is a ‘puta’

Days from a National Election, Canadian Voters Focus on the US Relationship

In Turkey, Peace as Pretext: Erdogan’s Authoritarian Logic for Arresting His Main Opponent

Trump Forfeits U.S. Global Leadership at Americans’ Expense and to China’s Gain

Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped?

America’s Decades of Russia-First Policy

Media & Speech

With his threat of a $1bn lawsuit against BBC, Trump’s assault on the media goes global

5 laws FIRE wants on the books to protect free speech

Snipers, censorship, and unaccountability: Indiana University’s free speech crisis

Joy Reid on her ouster from MSNBC: ‘In this moment, not being a part of corporate media is a gift’

Anti-SLAPP laws protect Davids from being silenced by Goliaths

VICTORY! Federal district court dismisses class-action suit against pollster J. Ann Selzer

Institutional neutrality can’t be used to turn students into puppets

In his first term, Donald Trump called journalists the enemy. This time around, he’s treating us like one

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here’s the ugly backstory.

Princeton president misunderstands FIRE data — and campus free speech

What the First Amendment Really Protects

Judge sets trial over whether CPB pulled back from NPR due to White House pressure

What Wikipedia and Grokipedia are saying about each other

From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles

Another Big Reason to Worry About Bari Weiss’ Tenure at CBS News

FIRE SURVEY: Colleagues and faculty unions fail to defend scholars targeted for speech

Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by Trump officials

Pentagon names new press corps from far-right outlets after reporter walkout

EXPLAINER: Why Marco Rubio’s arguments for deporting noncitizens for speech are wrong

Lindsey Halligan’s humiliation continues apace

Opinion | My Bosses Were Afraid of Crossing Trump. So, I Quit.

Bari Weiss and the Tyranny of False Balance

Halting misinformation in its tracks

Pentagon’s press badge policy unites journalists by offending the Constitution

The not-so secret language of fascist fashion

VICTORY: Federal court halts Texas’ ‘no First Amendment after dark’ campus speech ban

Trump team recruits influencers to push lies about ‘lawless’ cities

Opinion: Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass

Arkansas wants to jail librarians. The First Amendment won’t allow it.

Bari Weiss and CBS’s Faux Balance

Nice Little TV Network You Got There

The end of federal funding for NPR stations cuts deep in Trump country

Jessica Chastain slams Apple TV for preemptively caving to Trump

A look at early landmark free press censorship cases

Government-supported ‘cancel culture’ threatens to destroy democracy

The Pentagon’s Attack on Free Speech Doesn’t Have To Work

400 entertainers co-sign ACLU letter supporting Jimmy Kimmel

In defense of fiery words

Media giants accused of ‘cowering to threats’ as Trump tries to stamp out criticism

Why RICO can’t be used to punish speech

Hitler’s Shadow, Trump’s Shield

Capitulation and the Attack on Free Speech

‘Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel,’ Stephen Colbert says, calling Trump an ‘autocrat’

Trump Tightens his Grip on the Media

You can’t fire your way to free speech

NPR to trim $5 million this year as public radio stations struggle to pay bills

Trump tries to stick up The New York Times with a water gun

How Gov. Shapiro’s role at Penn puts free speech and institutional autonomy at risk

Free Speech Was Meant for the Speech We Hate—Not the Words We All Agree On

Washington Post columnist says she was fired over posts after Charlie Kirk’s killing

That Fox Anchor’s Long History of Having to Apologize for Awful Remarks

It’s about repression, not free speech

The “Both Sides” Scam: How False Balance Fuels Extremism

Streaming Star Hasan Piker Was Set to Debate Charlie Kirk. Now He’s Warning of a “Reichstag Fire Moment.”

What Hasan Piker Told His Millions of Followers After Charlie Kirk Was Shot

Meet the New Conservative Cancel Culture, This Time With Government Informers

The real bias monitor at CBS is Donald Trump

Free Speech At Risk in America’s Schools

Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News

Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy

EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability

2026 College Free Speech Rankings: America’s colleges get an ‘F’ for poor free speech climate

PBS says it has cut about 100 positions because of loss of federal funding

LAWSUIT: Texas bans the First Amendment at public universities after dark

New campus censorship hack turns trademark law into muzzle

Fox bosses privately called U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro ‘reckless maniac’ and more

The Republican Epstein Strategy Is Failing

PBS, NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts

Public media stations in rural America say emergency-alert funding is in jeopardy

Fifth Circuit: First Amendment protects drag show from campus censors

Free Speech Under Siege: Bolton’s Raid and America’s Choice

How Gavin Newsom trolled his way to the top of social media

VICTORY! 5th Circuit blocks West Texas A&M’s unconstitutional drag ban

Our leading papers failed to stand up to Trump’s criminal justice authoritarianism

Are Americans Being Conditioned by Our Media to Become “Good Germans”?

Wide-ranging coalition of ‘friends of the court’ continue to support citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal in her return to the Supreme Court

PragerU Wants to Capitalize on PBS Defunding

Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch is rivaling Joe Rogan. Does it have staying power?

The University of Kentucky suspended a professor for criticizing Israel. Now, FIRE’s Faculty Legal Defense Fund is stepping up to defend him.

Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Escalate: NPR, PBS Funding Cuts Explained

Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.?

Anti-Immigrant Language Is Rising—Even on the Left

Inside the Trump administration’s extortion-industrial complex

American Crisis exclusive: The ‘Media Capitulation Index’

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

Something is rotten in the FCC

The silencing

Pennsylvania officers face First Amendment lawsuit for trying to criminalize profanity and using patrol car to chase man who recorded police

PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy

How did American media and Republican politicians lose their spines?

Atlanta journalist fights deportation from Ice jail despite dropped charges: ‘I’m seeing what absolute power can do’

Colbert Canceled: Press Freedom Will Go Out With a Pen Stroke, Not a Bang

60 Years Later: How a Civil Rights-Era Defamation Case Empowers the Press

Free Speech Forum empowers next generation of First Amendment heroes

Goodbye, separation of church and state

Supreme Court case upholding age-verification for online adult content newly references ‘partially protected speech,’ gives it lesser First Amendment scrutiny

Trump’s Secret to Limiting Free Speech Without Outlawing It

Purdue fails its own test on institutional neutrality

Jailed for basic journalism, Texas reporter takes free speech fight to Supreme Court

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid?

Purdue fails its own test on institutional neutrality

Jailed for basic journalism, Texas reporter takes free speech fight to Supreme Court

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid?

Trump is waging war against the media – and winning

Speech is not a crime — even if it complicates ICE’s job

The Bill Moyers That Obituaries Missed

CBS is the latest news giant to bend to Trump’s power

Paramount to reach a $16 million settlement over Trump’s CBS lawsuit

Senators question Trump plan to kill federal funds for PBS, NPR and some foreign aid

Kari Lake takes her war on Voice of America to Congress

Trump extends TikTok ban deadline by another 90 days

University of Rochester student expelled after detailing school’s mishandling of harassment complaint on Substack

State Department unveils social media screening rules for all student visa applicants

Fired ABC News journalist stands by his post criticizing Trump and adviser

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

Bill banning teaching antisemitism vetoed by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, who says it’s actually an attack on educators

13 “Woke” Books Banned in DOD Schools

Yes, progressive buzzwords are killing us

Marco Rubio Announces Hypocritical “Free Speech” Visa Restrictions

Voice of America’s prospects appear grim after appeals court order

How to dismantle the media’s bothsidesism

Take This Home With You: Let Freedom Ring

Trump Versus The Press

President of CBS News resigns as Trump lawsuit hovers over network

Why We Need a Reconstruction of the Liberal Public Sphere

Kari Lake says OAN’s far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America

Harvard talks free speech but silences Palestine

ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

Ann Telnaes, who quit Washington Post in protest, wins Pulitzer for ‘fearlessness’ in commentary

‘Fight back’: journalist taking Trump administration to court calls for media to resist attacks

Demonizers

Maga media mob: meet the new rightwing faces in the White House briefing room

White House brings conspiracy theorists, former Trump officials and a family friend to its ‘influencer briefings’

Fox News Wants Meidas Shut Down for Exposing Trump

The media is failing to fight for democracy

Hiding the truth is not telling the truth

Trump v 60 Minutes is a stunning battle for the soul of US media

Trump’s Aggressive Actions Against Free Speech Speak Louder than His Words Defending It

The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor

5 Ways Major Media Can Seek Redemption

Why Deregulating Online Platforms is Bad for Free Speech

A Linguistic Analysis on the Roots of Fascist Thought

Trump’s Attacks on Press Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism

How Autocrats Use Proxies to Control the Media

Business & Economics

States are quietly cutting child care funding — and families are out of options

Top 10 America’s Billionaires Collective Wealth grew by $698 Billion, While the Rest of the Country’s People Fell Further Behind

East Wing ballroom donations by corporate owners create awkward moments for news outlets

The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry

US food banks are rushing to stock supplies amid Snap lapse: ‘garner all the resources that we can’

Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’

Farm-state Republicans finally reach their breaking point

How are unions pushing back against Trump’s attacks on labor and layoffs?

Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy

She posted about Charlie Kirk’s death. Within eight hours, she was fired

How Antimonopoly is Enduring Despite Trumpian Corruption

How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy

Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

Clients of a Trump-Connected Lobbying Firm Keep Landing No-Bid ICE Contracts

Trump’s TikTok deal payment criticized as ‘shake-down scheme’ by experts

Here’s what happens when big-time lobbyists become big-name Trump officials

Black women are being hit hard by the Trump layoffs and firings: ‘It chips away at morale and self-worth’

When even Ben & Jerry’s can’t speak out, it’s clear: the era of corporate responsibility is over

Poverty Among American Women Soars, While Media Obsesses Over Kirk’s Delusional Life

Justice Department Aims to Kill State Laws That Compel Major Polluters to Pay for Climate Harm

More Americans Going Hungry, Worst Still to Come

Employers Have Exploited and Abused H-2A Farmworkers for Years. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way.

Republicans Are Using an Arcane Oversight Rule to Permanently Dismantle Federal Land Protections

Elizabeth Warren introduces bill to ban employers from running credit reports in hiring

The Data Center Building Boom Is Running Into Local Resistance

How environmental groups lost Newsom to Big Oil

Another cabinet disgrace

Pluralistic: Trump steals $400b from American workers

Complying with Trump administration’s attack on DEI could get employers into legal trouble

Donald Trump maelstrom likely to leave US economic model unrecognisable

Trump Deal Lets Intel Move Factories Overseas, Sen. Warren Explains

Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous

Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities

Trump nixes $679m in funding for offshore wind farms amid fossil fuel push

Chairman Trump: has the US turned its back on free-market capitalism?

States vow to fight Trump official’s stop-work order on offshore wind farm

Home Depot keeps quiet on immigration raids outside its doors

The tech company stocking up on Democrats as Silicon Valley turns right

Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations

US national parks staff in ‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts

How Trump is reshaping government data

A stock trading ban for Congress is a no-brainer. And yet.

The Deportation Business: How Mass Deportation Became a $45 Billion Industry

America’s Top Gas Exporter Claims Massive Tax Credit for “Alternative” Fuels

DOJ Does MAGA Lobbyist Bidding Again, Shutters Another Antitrust Case

The Law That Could Blow Open Trump Antitrust Corruption

Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary

Assessing the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan

Corporate America is having a weird tariff summer

The Bitcoin Coup: How Crypto Accelerationists Engineered America’s Financial Collapse

K Street rakes in record cash thanks to Trump

What the Working Class Really Believes

Republicans’ food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump

Americans’ medical debt can stay in credit reports, judge rules. What does that mean?

Trump Just Made It OK to Continue Paying Disabled Workers Peanuts

Trump’s megabill is creating a budget nightmare for states

Critics hear differences in Trump’s approach to Texas, California disasters

California has an idea to counter Trump’s megabill: Roll back environmental laws

How Trump’s megabill could slam the job market

How Trump’s Very MAGA Tax Cuts Break with GOP Tradition

States Take the Lead on Banning Noncompete Agreements

Senate Version of “Beautiful” Bill Will “Kill” America’s Clean Energy Sector, Experts Say

Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

Tennessee Lawmakers and Lenders Said This Law Would Protect Borrowers. Instead It Trapped Them in Debt.

Lawmakers bet millions on pharma stocks as Trump targets industry

Why Big Tech Turned Against Democrats — and Democracy

Megabill debt warnings fall on deaf ears inside the GOP

Senate Passes Massive Cryptocurrency Bill, Ignoring Risk To Financial System

How Trump’s Top Economist Envisions Victory in the Trade War

After early reprieve from immigration enforcement, farming industry reckons with raids

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term

Republicans Have a Solution for Their Deficit Problem: Flagrant Lies

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research

Tech Moguls Want to Build a Crypto Paradise on a Native American Reservation

Maximum cash for Trump’s pals—and maximum pain for everyone else

Trump’s Out-of-Control Debt Is Not a Bug. To the GOP, It’s a Feature.

Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More

The Economic Consequences of Destroying Harvard

‘Fiscally irresponsible’: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ benefits the rich at the expense of the poor

The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country, And Will Most Likely Hurt Women in the Process.

The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline

The Fix

Trump and the Tech Oligarchy

Florida Families Could Buckle Under the Pressure of Trump Policies

Why Trump is focusing on business deals on his Middle East trip

Trump is making his first term grifting seem quaint

We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market

Trump’s Killing of Energy Star Program Will Cost Families a Bundle

Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests

Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts

DOGE Killed Dozens of Grants That Supported Women Workers

Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk

Seeking spending cuts, GOP lawmakers target a tax hospitals love to pay

The Intellectual Godfathers of Protectionism

Trump set to raise millions from crypto and meme coin this month

DOGE Is Obliterating American Industry

Warren Buffett announces his retirement and warns the trade war will hurt America

The Supreme Court Could Unleash Chaos on the Economy

Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you

The Grift Society

Remembrance of Kevin Warsh Past

Breaking the Silence

The True Cost Of DOGE, Trump Is Making Russia And China Great Again

Trump’s FTC Opens the Floodgates for Tariff Profiteering

Corporate Lawlessness Comes Next

Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism

Will Trump Finally Kill the Bretton Woods System?

Until Debt Tear Us Apart

Can Trump Just Take Your Money?

Health & Science

The head of the World Health Organization has a message for Trump

Countries are gathering for climate negotiations. Here’s where the U.S. stands

Election Day Was a Win for the Climate

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed

Maine Voters Approve New Law to Prevent Suicides and Mass Shootings

How an enduring debate over healthcare sparked a now record-long shutdown

When SNAP benefits will arrive is still in flux. Here’s what communities are doing to fill the gap

Obamacare sticker shock is more shocking in some states than others

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

RFK Jr railed against ultra-processed foods. Trump’s policies encourage their production

Staffers Fear a Southern Planned Parenthood Faces a “Dangerous Threat From Within”

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

RFK Jr.’s ‘chemtrails’ probe shows the power conspiracy theories have to shape health policy

The feds are cutting funding for Planned Parenthood, following a playbook that began in Texas

The Secret Campaign to Silence Critics of a Hospital Real Estate Empire

Meet some Trump voters who voted to vamoosh their health care

Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha

The Shutdown Will Worsen Hunger—Which the Trump Administration Just Stopped Tracking

On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous

Donald Trump’s War on Public Health Enters a New Phase

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

Senate confirms scientist with ties to ‘Sharpiegate’ as top NOAA official

Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown

Bill Nye asks Congress to push back against ‘extinction-level’ NASA budget cuts

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood Will Stop Abortions—Even Though They’re Legal

VA doctors warn cuts, privatization threaten veterans’ healthcare

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Abortion pill providers targeted by new Texas law refuse ‘anticipatory obedience’

The Stealth Assault on Medicare

Florida plans to stop school vaccine mandates. These states could follow.

Trump’s Health Care Cuts May Hit Voters Sooner Than He Thinks

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

New policies are making life harder for trans people — and prompting big financial decisions

Trump wants GOP lawmakers to embrace RFK Jr. They’re having trouble.

On Texas border, uninsured people stress the health system. It’s set to get worse

The House Republican risking GOP backlash to save Obamacare subsidies

Amid Florida’s push against vaccine mandates, fears grow of increased risks

Trump administration plans to end EPA’s greenhouse gas tracking program for industrial facilities

The Saga of RFK Jr. and an Estonian Vaccine Skeptics Conference

Millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs unless Congress extends subsidies

Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

In the fallout from Trump’s health funding cuts, states face tough budget decisions

Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine rule won’t cover all diseases

RFK Jr. Is Living in a Pretend Anti-Vax World

Florida’s Surgeon General Just Said He Will Eliminate “All Vaccine Mandates”

California, Oregon and Washington ally on vaccines in rebuke to Trump’s CDC

RFK Jr critic Paul Offit removed from FDA vaccine advisory committee

Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear

America’s once-powerful doctors are struggling to remain relevant in Trump’s Washington

FACT FOCUS: Rural hospitals are expected to lose money from Trump’s bill, despite RFK Jr.’s promise

HHS the latest to cancel union contracts and implement Trump’s order

‘Going to be a bloodbath’: The GOP megalaw threatens a flooded hospital’s future

Public Commenters Overwhelmingly Oppose EPA’s Plan to Curtail Key Climate Protections

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

Leading US economists urge peers to fight Trump’s attack on environment

Anti-Vaxxers Are Making Excuses for the CDC Shooter

Environmental groups sue Trump administration over “secret report” by “known climate contrarians”

Trump tax law could cause Medicare cuts if Congress doesn’t act, CBO says

Experts condemn NIH director’s defense of cut to vaccine research

Trump illegally froze 1,800 NIH medical research grants, Congress’ watchdog says

HHS Has Revived a Failed Program to Scrape Americans’ Data and Track Autism, Senate Suggests

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

RFK Jr. halts $500 million for mRNA vaccine research

Pregnant people in rural parts of the country are running out of places to give birth

Trump Smashed an Obama Legacy Item—Harming Many and Pleasing Few

Medicare and Medicaid turn 60 – and face historic cuts decades in the making

NSF slashes most career executive roles after shedding one-third of staff

A Non-Exhaustive Timeline of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s War on Vaccines

Trump’s order to remove ‘woke’ AI from government may have ‘downstream impacts,’ experts worry

“Another Big Lie”: Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Regulating Greenhouse Gases

‘We need some hope’: can a rural hospital on the brink survive Trump’s bill?

Trump voters wanted lower medical bills. But for millions, bills are about to go up

He’s Suing His Girlfriend’s Doctor for Prescribing Abortion Pills. Could This Gut Access Everywhere?

Trump & GOP Will Finally Bring Healthcare to its Knees

Former federal science leaders warn Trump proposals could cripple U.S. research

The Plot Against Vaccines

Countdown Clock Begins for Giant Health Insurance Premium Increases

Unpacking the MAHA Mirage: Trump Guts Healthcare While Preaching Wellness

Republicans are ready to revive stalled health care legislation. Dems want the GOP to pay a price.

GOP Wrecking Ball Slams Through Medical System

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight

A warning bell for all women in America

FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say

Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

‘We’re the frontline of defense’: Food banks grapple with megabill’s impact

Trump’s All-Out Assault on Science Constitutes a “Mind-Boggling Own-Goal”

Three reasons why Republicans cut Medicaid

GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states

In crackdown on women’s health, the White House gets an assist from legacy media

5 ways Trump’s tax bill will limit health care access

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

As Trump targets birthright citizenship, the terrain is once again ‘women’s bodies and sexuality’

The Coming Health Care Apocalypse

U.S. uninsured rates could resurge if Trump’s budget bill passes

The paperwork trap: A sneaky way to cut Medicaid in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’?

Too sick to work, some Americans worry Trump’s bill will strip their health insurance

Three years after Dobbs, the state of women’s health is dire

Crisis pregnancy centers told to avoid ultrasounds for suspected ectopic pregnancies

Trump administration actions contradict MAHA rhetoric on toxic chemicals

Hospitals stunned by Senate GOP’s Medicaid plan

Trump officials cutting $1bn in NIH grants is ‘void and illegal’, judge rules

Medicaid keeps getting more popular as Republicans aim to cut it by $800 billion

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans

‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown

Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse.

At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence

US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance

‘So Much Evil Had To Happen for this Bill To Pass’

The stakes for women just keep rising

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

They Are, In Fact, Coming After Obamacare Again

Donald Trump’s Decades-Long Obsession With Eugenics

Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda

Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

Planned Parenthood affiliate to close 4 clinics in Minnesota and 4 in Iowa over federal funding cuts

This doctor calls LGBTQ+ rights ‘satanic’. He could now undo healthcare for millions

The state of reproductive rights is dire

Terminally Ill People in Prison Denied Care, Access to Family While Dying

FDA to Cut Covid Booster Access, Excluding In-Home Carers

New studies show what’s at stake if Medicaid is scaled back

A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.

Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus.

How Trump’s Dismantling of NOAA Threatens the Keeling Curve—and Why That Matters

Institutionalizing politicized science

CBO: The GOP’s Medicaid cuts will drop millions of people

Once-fringe activists are fighting to be the voice of the anti-abortion movement

US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says

The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home

Medicaid Cuts in Republican Bill Would Charge Poor People More for Coverage

The Case That Could Gut Disabled People’s Right to Equal Health Care

The Emasculation of Scientific Research

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.

Meet the Florida group chipping away at public benefits one state at a time

Trump Dismantled 30 Years of Environmental Justice in 100 Days

20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse RFK Jr.’s deep cuts

More than a dozen US government health-tracking programs have been gutted

The Republican Budget Plan Could Kick Millions Off Medicaid

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

Many in autism community say Health Secretary Kennedy doesn’t understand their needs

Why is measles spreading in Canada, Mexico and the US?

Trump restores Title X funding for two anti-abortion states—while wiping it out elsewhere

Republicans Seek to Kill California Auto Pollution Rules Using a “Blatantly Illegal” Tactic

The Trump administration says it will cut EPA staffing to Reagan-era levels

The White House wants to avoid Medicaid cuts. To GOP hard-liners, they’re essential.

The little-known database at the heart of Kennedy’s vaccine conspiracy theory

The Silent Genocide: How Trump’s America is Choosing Who Lives and Who Dies

RFK Jr. isn’t staying in his lane. Trump is thrilled.

Why does RFK Jr want to put my family on an ‘autism registry’?

Court Challenge to ACA Preventative-Care Coverage

Trump’s Decimation of US Science is a Gift to China

The Neuroscience of Effective Political Action

What Happens to Health Research When ‘women’ is a Banned Word?

Project 2025

Project 2025 August 14th Update

The People’s Guide to Project 2025

Project 2025 July 23rd Update

Why the federal government is making climate data disappear

Project 2025 July 8th Update

Project 2025 June 18th Update

Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives

Project 2025 May 21st Update

Project 2025 Supporters Promote White Nationalist Great Replacement Theorists

How closely is Trump following the Project 2025 blueprint?

The man who led Project 2025 gives his assessment of Trump’s first 100 days

How Trump’s policies and Project 2025 proposals match up after first 100 days

‘100-year timeframe’: how Project 2025 is guiding Trump’s attack on government

OMB Director Implementing Project 2025

Trump Following Project 2025 Roadmap to Defund Science

Odds & Ends

The Epstein files fight is finally coming to the House floor

They’re Not Hiding It and It’s Not Irony

Liberalism’s Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society

Republicans Made This Mess — Democrats Just Cleaned It Up for Them

The Madman Theory’s Perfect Target

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office

Sometimes Constitutional Law is Dumb

The Two Materialisms: Why I’m a Liberal

Nick Fuentes, Trump’s Failures, and the Moment the GOP Began to Crack

The Judicial Counterrevolution

Twelve Citizens and the Social Contract

American Conservatism and Liberal Democracy

Zohran Mamdani is filling disillusioned Americans with hope and inspiration

Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment

Not Everything Can Be An Emergency

Big Law’s Big Choice

Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda

The Faction They Could No Longer Control

How Not to Blow the Trump 2.0 Investigations

Mike Johnson’s lies keep getting lost in the facts

Liberalism’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

A hive of corruption, malice and menace

Libertarianism is Dead

The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again

Is the Assault on Democracy Stronger than We Think — and Nearing Permanent Control?

Calling This Court “Supreme” Is Obeying in Advance

Tucker Carlson Just Showed Us the Future—And It’s Worse Than We Thought

Trump Just Announced His Police State

The Hunger Games Begin

Eugene Debs and All Of Us

Trump’s Gold-Plated Desecration of the White House

TINA (There Is No Alternative) and the Leader as “A Vehicle of Divine Providence”

Hunger, Bribes and Sociopathy

A report claims left-wing terrorism is rising. The data paints a complicated picture

The Billionaire’s Ballroom

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

The Right’s New Grand Unified Theory: Blame Women for Everything

The PirateWires Method

In Memoir, Virginia Giuffre Alleges Her Father Abused Her and May Have Taken Epstein’s Money

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

The Coming Clash of Civilizations

Troops on the streets, a polarized country and climbing prices: welcome to Trump’s ‘golden age’

When Loyalty Becomes Law: Is Our Military Already in on a Coup?

On Presuming the Tyrant’s Virtue

No One in the GOP Hitler Chat Was a “Kid”

The Politics of Fear in American History

The history and legacy of the Voting Rights Act

Are We the Nazis Now?

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

The Birth of the Sociopath: Why Smart People Choose to Stop Seeing Goodness

The WTF Presidency

How Silicon Valley Swung Right — And Why It Won’t Swing Back

The “Peacemaker” Who Thrives on Chaos

Want to know who’ll be our next president?

Pete Hegseth Wants Women Out of the Military—and He’s Not Hiding It

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

Pete Hegseth Wants Women Out of the Military—and He’s Not Hiding It

All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps

Democracy Doesn’t Need Better Analysis—It Needs Better Dancers

The Stunning Corruption In The White House

It’s Time for Soft Secession

The Crisis in Uniform: The Danger of Presidential Immunity for the U.S. Military

It’s already time for a new SCOTUS term. Or, the summer that wasn’t.

The Tyrant in the White House

Why Trump’s speech to US military top brass was such a disaster

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd

Trump the tyrant is on full display — but his acting out highlights how weak he is

No One Is Sure If It’s Illegal to Accept a $50,000 Bribe Stuffed In a Cava Bag, Thanks to the Supreme Court

Supreme Court behavior on the shadow docket

Warning to you and your loved ones

Charlie Kirk, Martyrdom, and America’s Authoritarian Apostles

Black church leaders reject Charlie Kirk martyrdom and point to his race rhetoric

The Trump Murder Policy

Everything Is Awful. And It’s Changing Us.

Trump’s Expanding Mafia State

Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War

From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home

“Show me the man and I’ll find the crime”

Listening to the Law review – Amy Coney Barrett offers little comfort about state of US law

Violence Entrepreneurs

The sports world isn’t ‘sticking to sports’ anymore—and we all know why

Yeah. It’s Fascism.

Trump’s “Antifa Terrorists” and Jimmy Kimmel’s Silencing

Trump’s War on Transparency

MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want

On Cancel Culture

Charlie Kirk and Trump’s Looming Political Crackdown

MAGA supporters have become real-life Manchurian candidates

Americans have 400 days to save their democracy

Fort Hood, Texas

Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us

What a Real President Doesn’t Do

A desensitized America is moving on from political violence faster and faster

Women judges see rising threats to their work — and clear paths to defusing them

Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence

Republicans Own the Shutdown Threat—If Democrats Make Them

Undaunted from the Bench

From Tragedy to Resolve: Rejecting Political Violence After Orem

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

Trump’s lawyers won’t stop lying in court

A Dangerous Moment

The Future of the Democratic Party (if it has a future)

Is the 5th Circuit too extreme for the Supreme Court yet?

Here’s Why the Supreme Court Keeps Writing Trump Blank Checks

Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism

The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Treason

Even Federal Court Judges Know the MAGA Justices are Out of Control

Good Governance Requires Accountability

In new memoir, Supreme Court Justice Barrett reflects on historic cases, is largely silent on Trump

The Oligarchs’ Dinner Party: How Silicon Valley Toasted American Fascism

Empty oaths

Why Trump Might Want ICE To Be His Private Militia

A Really Well Insulated Attic

Dissenting with feeling: The tone of dissents in the 2024-25 term

Texas loves its bounty hunters and hates its women

Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

Trump and the Art of Extortion

The Freedom Fraud: How the Right Weaponized Liberty Against Democracy

Potemkin village populism

Tragedy Brings Out The Christian Nationalism in Trump’s Administration

Has Trump succeeded in normalising American autocracy?

Maxwell: The Sex Predator Who Is Incentivized to Exonerate Trump

Making Slavery Great Again

Taking Stephen Miller Seriously. And Literally.

Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism

It’s Villains All the Time

Forget Law and Order — Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote

From Anti-Wokeness to the Confederate States of America

Breaking Down the White House’s Lies and Distortions About Crime in DC

The sham Ghislaine Maxwell proffer is a shameful whitewash of accountability

Octavia Butler Predicted Our Dystopian Present. What Can a Futurist Learn From Her Chilling Accuracy?

Maine’s Populist Senate Candidate Thinks We Are in a New Gilded Age

Who Are the “Real” Americans Here?

Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it

What It’s Like To Be An International Affairs Graduate School Administrator in 2025

There’s the Truth and Then There’s Daddy

Constitutional Collapse in Real Time

How you can stop Peter Thiel’s Palantir

Sadopopulism and the Fascist MAGA Ethos

Trump Vs. Powell: The Big Takeaways from Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve

The Dictator’s Dream: Controlling Who Gets to Vote

Abundance and Labor Unions

What’s behind the Trump administration’s immigration memes?

Opinion | Americans Are Changing Their Views of Israel. That’s a Problem.

Liberalism Might Need Some Populism

90 years ago, FDR created Social Security, a ‘watershed in American history’

If Democrats got off their asses, here’s what they’d be doing now

MAGA’s “Truman Show”

Why Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less About Trump’s Epstein Scandal

Shining a Light on the Destruction of our Government

Donald Trump and the Deconstruction of America

How the Kavanaugh confirmation saga still haunts the Senate

It’s 1984

Writing Through My Policy Depression

From Bipartisan to Lapdog: Graham Pushes Treason Charges Against Obama

Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible.

To the victor goes the spoils system?

Making America Epstein Again

When the majority disagrees on the shadow docket

The ways in which justices reach their decisions

A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust

The conspiracy to free the world’s most notorious sex trafficker

21 Years Later, Obama’s Speech Still Has A Message Everyone Needs To Hear

The Shambolic Grifter In the Arena, Daring Greatly

Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump

The Trade Deal Coup

Is Kissing Trump’s Ass, Real Nice and Slow How He Likes It, a Good Strategy?

One day inside the deportation machine at a federal immigration court in New York

Supreme Court conservatives hide behind their own masks as they upend the law

The Next Move Will Do What the Political Establishment Won’t

Why the Huge Conflicts of Interest Among Trump’s Epstein Team Matter

America the Cruel: The Human Cost of Trump’s Hidden War on the Vulnerable

On the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Vandalism in Service of Inherited Wealth

How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension DC)

Societal Collapse Is Not a Bug

Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros

The Politics of Humiliation

On Data and Democracy (Mid-Year Roundup): Charting the Assault on American Democracy and A Path Forward

Conspiratorialism and neoliberalism

The War on Women

Why I Call It Fascism

The Emergency Ethics of Democratic Defense: Gavin Newsom Is Right to Fight Fire with Fire

How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era

Why We Don’t Politicize the Military

The Supreme Court, the Deep State, and Jeffrey Epstein

America’s famed ‘checks-and-balances’ governance system is failing

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor

The Epstein Saga Has Splintered Trump’s Movement Like Nothing Before

Disasters are for the greater glory of Trump

An Angry Judge in the Abrego Garcia Case

Trump hands Congress a ‘weapon’ he once warned would do ‘grave damage’ to presidency

Who Goes MAGA?

How the 2024 term fits into the history of the Roberts court

A Fight Against Impunity: Cooperation in the International Criminal Court

Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Term

Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise.

The thing that worries us about the Supreme Court

Is Trump’s expansion of presidential powers setting the stage for future Oval Office holders?

The Science of the Declaration

Emil Bove’s confirmation hearing was a travesty

What Patriotism Requires

This Term, the Supreme Court Gave Favors to Its MAGA Allies on Two Tracks

Why They Hate Education

Inside Elon Musk’s Stellar Year at the Texas Capitol

Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows

8 Takeaways From The Latest SCOTUS Term

Summer Awakening: Americans Push Back Against Christian Nationalism

The Fixed Theme of American History

Autocracy, Corruption, and Decline: Why Hungary and Orbanism Must Never be a Model for the U.S.

The One Branch of Government that Trump Wants to Keep Alive

As DOJ Lawyers Face Alarming Pressure to be “Trump’s Lawyers,” Judges Are Sending Up Flares.

Justices’ nerves fray in Supreme Court’s final stretch

What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803

Surveillance is inequality’s stabilizer

Ideology Matters: An Analysis of Sentencing in Terrorism and Extremism Cases

A silver lining in the Ninth Circuit Court decision on use of troops in Los Angeles

Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?

How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington

We Have No Supreme Court

Trump’s pick for appeals judge seen as ‘ill-suited’ to lifetime appointment

Senate Parliamentarian Won’t Let Republicans Carry Water For Trump Judiciary Defiance

The Unitary Executive: A Primer for the People

‘Our era of violent populism’: the US has entered a new phase of political violence

Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can’t do anything about it

The Dogs of War

For Trump, demonization is good politics

Defense Department Renames Army Bases to Honor Southern Insurrectionists Who Sought to Preserve Slavery

Noem’s Threat to Remove Elected Officials in California Mimics Authoritarians Abroad

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America

Trump’s war on women: How political violence and policy converge

Spiritual warfare and the roots of political violence

America had open borders until 1924. Racism and corporate greed changed that

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

MAGA political violence claims more victims

The Next Conservative Civil War Is Coming

We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back

Does the Supreme Court Really Believe in the Constitution?

Germans, Hungarians, Russians, Italians all Waited Until it was Too Late: Are Americans About to Join that Tragic Club?

A masterclass in figuring out ways not to do what judges order

Don’t Be Fooled: The Musk-Trump Blowup Is Really About Immigration

Built by Palantir. Sanctioned by Trump. Target: You.

Stop Asking How To Make Putin Walk Away From Ukraine. It’s the Wrong Question.

Elon Musk is a Disgusting Abomination

Autocrats don’t act like Hitler or Stalin anymore − instead of governing with violence, they use manipulation

The History of Successful Liberal Reform

The Seditionists: Yarvin and the Machinery of Democratic Collapse

The real cover-up is of Trump’s disordered mental state

Trump’s extraordinary pardon binge MAGAifies the clemency power

An unexpected shift to the right: the conservative justices’ recent embrace of law review articles

Crime is Now Legal (At Least for Trump’s Friends)

Trump is withdrawing whiteness from white immigrants

The Supreme Court’s Reaping Phase

‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself

OUR CONSTITUTIONALISM OF FORCE

What Republicans really mean when they say ‘woke’

What is democracy, anyway?

On Nazi Salutes and Trumpism as Fascism

A cabinet of dunces

Trump’s Lawlessness Has Historical Roots

Arresting Judges, the Trump Administration Follows the Autocratic Playbook

It does matter. Defending the rule of law in the Trump era is essential.

Trump can’t do ANYTHING for his base

White Fragility Comes to the Naval Academy

The Grift That Keeps on Grifting

It’s fascinating to watch Trump supporters realize they screwed up

Did the Founders consider adding Canada to the United States?

How Calling a Child the N-Word Made One Woman $700,000

The Trump Crime Family Business: Selling America from the Inside

The Hope Florida scandal, explained

They Want to Break Us

Senator John McCain left us an important lesson and message

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt’s Nazi Staffer

Don’t call them “potential conflicts of interest.”

George Washington would have thrown up

Mike Pence is not a ‘Profile in Courage’

Trump’s Truth Social posts make no sense – what do they say about his mentality?

Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births, No to Immigrants and LGBTQ Families

Bill Maher and the Nazis: part 3

Bill Maher and the Nazis: part 2

Bill Maher and the Nazis

Marks of the Fascist, Tacky, Insatiable Beast

High School Never Ends—Especially in Washington

Trump disdains conservatism. His governing philosophy is absolute power.

Trust Math, Not People

Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become?

The Present Crisis and the End of the Long ’90s

Ineptitude, Incompetence, Stupidity, and Chaos

Pope Francis’s Remarkable Peacemaking Life

A Cult of Personality Without a Personality

The Trump Administration’s Recursive Incompetence

Reflections on the Unitary Executive Theory

The Illiberal’s Dilemma

The Plot Against America