Minnesota judges criticized the Trump administration’s immigration tactics. Now the Justice Department wants them investigated

Trump’s intervention in Brazilian elections undermines a basic and generally cherished right to self-determination, as well as the right to democracy itself. It is even clearly illegal under the Chart...

​Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon has forcibly displaced more than 1.1 million people, including around 329,000 children.

​"This measure was a ruse, promoted by House Speaker Mike Johnson, to make it appear that congressional Republicans were tackling an ethical quagmire when, in fact, it would have accomplished very lit...

The 10th annual Copernicus Ocean State Report reveals alarming ocean warming and extreme events, signaling profound shifts due to the climate crisis. Are we ready to face the consequences of continued...

Who wouldn’t want a book of the secretary’s speeches?

Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military.

How a 50-year-old treatise by an Italian economic historian makes sense of our utterly senseless moment

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A federal contracting record shows DHS is paying Akima for a "soft-sided tent facility" for detained women, weeks after a New York law barred county jails from holding people for DHS.

Four hours in the chair, a Senate full of bought coppers, and the man they couldn't touch just dropped the best résumé in Washington.

Jack Smith brought the truth. Senate Republicans brought fairy tales, show tunes, fake gotchas, bird-brained buffoonery and professionally printed humiliation.

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Thoughts from a former commander in the Iraq War as the last Americans leave today.

Also: an Alabama builder wins round one against ICE, California adds a buffer, and a judge refuses to let Rubio put 43,000 visa applicants back on hold.

The Jack Smith “gotcha” was a Faceplant for the Ages.

Taxpayer-funded Trump commercials are the latest sign the president has turned our institutions into his personal business.

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Eric Schmitt shoots an airball at Jack Smith as Washington talks him up for VP

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Donald, young women, and a familiar pattern

Education and information are the most powerful tools in the armoury of a better society. That’s what the Truth Matters Project is focussed on facilitating.

China General Technology Research Institute has ‘very strong ties’ to Chinese intelligence, says UK agency in unusual espionage alert

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Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

The health secretary wants you to hand over your health information to the government.

The Trump administration had asked the court to lift a judge's order requiring migrants be able to contest their removal to countries other than their own.

In California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants' rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant dete...

Susan Rice warns us about AI, Trump’s ad paid for by DHS? Salman Rushdie recounts his assassination attempt, Basic Pistol review, third-country removals, and April Ryan with Rep. Bennie Thompson

“Super Intelligence” joins the Gulf of America and Lake America in a presidency increasingly determined to leave its nameplate on everything

Do not lecture liberals about finding joy while Republicans starve children, wreck our Democracy, and poison our environment

Catherine Rampell and Sam Stein bring the receipts on Trump’s increasingly baffling fight with Canada, his latest promise of $5,000 checks and the ugly polling behind it, and his move to weaken fuel-efficiency standards while gas prices are sky-high.