On Monday, President Trump took the meeting.

The government has a duty to serve the public. When does that cross a line?

The administration has used national security to justify a press ban, a ballroom, and an arch. Election deniers want him to use it in November.

The President has long attacked the press. It’s not what the Founders had in mind.

Federal law is clear: agents at polling places are illegal. Three of the administration's most senior officials have now described doing it anyway.

House Democrats say Trump's privately run 250th birthday celebration was built to harvest Americans' data. The paper trail backs them up.

It makes sense to make the day we all vote a day off, right?

EDITOR NOTE: This episode was recorded before a federal judge in Massachusetts issued her ruling blocking the mail-in ballot rule.

A lawsuit filed this week says DHS read the court's order as narrowly as possible and kept going. States have until Friday to comply.

The rule is now official, but it’s made for a world that doesn’t exist. Don’t blame them, they say; they’re just the messengers.

A fake firm sent out fake polls in high-stakes races across the country, duping thousands. Tracking them down might be the least of our issues.

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

All eyes are now on the country's most important independent agency, but what does independence even mean?

AI ads are flooding our feeds and the airwaves and are rewriting political reality faster than any law can stop it.

Trump wants Detroit to build his missiles. The automakers aren't saying yes, and the calendar says they couldn't in time anyway.

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The Constitution guarantees it, so why are we still arguing about it?

With less than 100 days until the election and the lower courts against it, the White House seems ready to bet big on the Supreme Court's most opaque tool.

The next stage of the Trump Administration's push to end birthright citizenship is here.

A celebration of you and a special offer

The government has used the same claim 31 times to justify force. In all but one case, the car was never the threat.

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The Smithsonian is one of the most trusted institutions in America. The White House just spent 162 pages trying to convince you otherwise.

The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has quietly shifted its focus away from actual voter fraud after coming up mostly empty-handed.

As part of President Trump’s efforts to expand federal control over the country’s historically state-run election infrastructure, the U.S. Department of…