Politics
What really matters in the world of politics, campaigns, ideology, and more.
The end of the SAVE plan, briefly explained.
“Fog of war” is the least of it.
Seniors’ rising political influence is a threat to economic growth.
Sunday’s awards exemplify MAGA’s politics of resentment.
The Court’s GOP majority wants to grow Trump’s authority, but also give itself a veto power over the president.
You can now place bets on elections, wars, and deportations. Should you?
America’s new “neoroyalist” foreign policy.
There is no plausible argument that Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is constitutional.
According to Trump’s new national security strategy, America is done with “democracy promotion”…except in Europe.
The Court’s Texas decision is a victory for Republicans, and it is a terrible blow to all gerrymandering plaintiffs.
War crimes allegations are engulfing the Pentagon after a deadly strike in the Caribbean.
Hamm v. Smith is a death penalty case, but it could have big implications for anyone accused of a crime.
Trump is using a tragedy to stop immigration applications from 19 countries.
The Dells’ $6 billion gift just legitimized Trump accounts.
For this administration, war crimes are a feature, not a bug.
His administration is now openly advancing a worldview built by white nationalists in the 2010s.
The Court already killed most US campaign finance law. NRSC v. FEC is likely to give big donors even more influence.
The former president of Honduras was convicted of trafficking cocaine. Why did Trump pardon him?
As the US considers strikes on Venezuela, another Latin American country has caught the president’s attention.
How the Secretary of State is trying to balance his hawkish instincts against his MAGA doctrine.
Meanwhile, Texas Republicans want to immunize their gerrymander from constitutional review.
How to do the most good possible with the money you give.
The GOP justices are about to hand Trump a victory that they have been dreaming about since he was married to Ivana.
One of humanity’s biggest achievements may be slipping away.
An entrepreneur explains what’s broken about America’s system for skilled immigration.
The world is aging out of killing one another.
Thousands of DOJ attorneys have left since Trump took office. Here’s where that leaves the department.
There’s still much we don’t know, but the shooting could further inflame concerns about political violence in the US.
An end to the war in Ukraine may not be possible as long as Russia’s president is still in power.
Pope Leo’s politics are more complicated than simply “anti-Trump.”
What happens when you tell a generation they’re special?
The former Louisiana surgeon general has shared debunked theories about vaccines and autism.
How MAGA’s war on Mark Kelly is a sign of a deeper weakness.
Venezuela and the new war on terror, explained.
Tradwives are everywhere on social media. Their allegedly dominant spouses are invisible.
How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable trap.
Why Trump’s favorite prosecutor is out of a job.