A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

The Trump administration used a rare and controversial budgetary tactic to reject funding that would have supported research, education and minority groups.

The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...

On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...

Israel and the United States each hold elections one week apart in the fall. The fate of their democracies lies in the balance.

Is a reckoning close at hand?

Republicans are taking deliberate steps to make health care less affordable.

Out of interceptors, Ukraine is no longer winning the aerial war

CBS News has been tracking a record number of measles cases and outbreaks around the country. The majority of cases are among those who haven't been vaccinated.

Why MAGA wants children to get sick and die

Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.

On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.

In a classic Friday night news dump, the Department of Justice last night moved to dismiss the criminal charges against David Hearn, the U.S.

Fewer than academics imagine, but more than Elon Musk will admit

More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.

It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

Can the takeover be stopped?

Firing the reformist defence minister has plunged Volodymyr Zelensky’s government into crisis

On top of everything else, the president is inept.

Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president’s claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.

The billionaire backlash has finally arrived. But is it too late?

What the degraded institution means for America

Would the world have been safer if Graham hadn’t cozied up to Trump?

Much of the world feared abandonment by the United States. It’s actually a new beginning.

Who’s afraid of the big bad Trump?

The rate of people dying in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody has soared, with at least 52 deaths reported since the start of President Donald Trump’s current administration.

It was 50 years ago today

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are ...

On January 20, 2025, the day he took the oath of office a second time, President Donald J.

The Roberts Supreme Court delivers another blow against Americans and for Donald Trump

Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created the idea there was an emergency, ignored experts, bypassed normal procedures to give a wildly inflated contract to a crony,...

Wednesday night, after President Donald J.

Today, strategic studies scholar Phillips P.

It’s the fear, the enshittification, datacenter hostility, and the tech broligarchy

A senior U.S.

The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first

The road from 9/11 leads directly to January 6th, writes Rosa Brooks

The ghost of Versailles haunts Ukraine’s peace