To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.

In July of 1776, the Second Continental Congress officially voted to sever political ties with Great Britain and declare independence. In this week celebrating 250 years since the founding of the nati...

Shasta County voters had approved a ballot measure that would have heavily restricted voting by mail and imposed photo ID requirements. State officials said the new rules were illegal.

President Donald Trump declined to rule out sending federal troops to polling places, prompting concern from Democrats around the country.

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

Is the president’s son-in-law carrying out the public’s business or pursuing his own private interests?

David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, President Trump's mental acuity after his threats to wipe out a civilization and two prom...

The SAVE Act could block millions of American citizens from voting.

The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the rarely used federal law to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.

Donald Trump’s plans to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos are already under way.

More than 140 police officers were injured during the fighting on Jan. 6, which turned increasingly brutal as the hours wore on.

Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...

The state’s governor had called for a pause in the federal immigration crackdown over the Halloween weekend, citing concerns for children’s safety.

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

The free-speech provisions of the so-called compact are an exercise in contradiction.

The Trump administration’s embrace of the oil and gas industry’s agenda provides another example of how wealthy special interests shape policies. 

"American democracy is under threat" was the starting point for a task force assembled by the American Bar Association two years ago. Their mission was to investigate the causes and potential solutions for this growing problem. Former Homeland Security ...

Gerrymandering is spinning out of control, but Congress can stop it.

Callers to 988 used to be able to press 3 to reach counselors specially trained to help LGBTQ+ young people. The service had been reaching 70,000 people a month.

The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

"I think we can have a bipartisan process," Majority Leader John Thune told Axios.

Several more immigration judges have been fired, even as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement, and after Congress gave the Department of Justice $3 billion, in part to hire judges.

More than 20 states have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over billions of dollars in frozen funding for after-school and summer programs and other programs.

The administration’s militarized immigration crackdown is eroding civil liberties — and it comes amid ICE’s resistance to lawful congressional oversight.

“They are playing a little bit of roulette with these maps,” said one Texas Democrat.

Layoffs and departures after pressure from the Trump administration have left sites struggling, with the remaining employees each doing the work of two or three people.