Podcast Episode · Letters from an American · October 11 · 14m

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people showed up at a football stadium to hear the televisio...

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

Almost 170 ads and $80 million in spending and only 31% with a disclaimer: Here’s what researchers found when they tracked AI in this year’s campaign ads.

Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on President Donald Trump’s hagiographic ads, according to estimates by a leading political ad-tracking firm. And a total of $20 million has been a...

Two senior FBI agents were removed after investigators found harassing calls to Katie Miller, wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, didn't meet the threshold for investigation.

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

We may never know where most of the money came from.

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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The FBI says five men "conspired to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on US soil and around the world".

The administration’s attack on elections has failed in Congress and courts. Now it’s up to voters.

The English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 wasn’t an isolated outburst. Across medieval Europe, ordinary people challenged the authority of rulers who failed to live up to their end of the bargain.

But the pledge reveals an increasingly frantic midterms strategy.

The administration’s attack on elections has failed in Congress and courts. Now it’s up to voters.

The Dutch central bank removes some of its gold reserves from the US and Canada, saying it is because of "increasing geopolitical unrest".

Opinion: If NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.

This week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting. Headlines suggested that the justices had given Trump a green ...

It’s time for Congress to put a stop to the unbriefed, unargued, unexplained rulings that account for a majority of the Court’s decisions.

The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us.

If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.

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