Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline

The cost of living crisis isn’t over; plus the economics of tech CEO’s apocalyptic warnings; and why executive pay keeps climbing.

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

The mystery surrounding 660 million pounds of imported beef exposes a much larger story about money, deregulation, food safety, and who Trump’s billionaire-run government really serves...

Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), the United States’ and Israel’s war against Iran has brought the number of armed conflicts in which states are involved to more than sixty. In th...

The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths

Mark Zuckerberg promises that AI will give everyone even more personal freedom, but his company is cracking the whip behind the scanes.

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging...

While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured

The defense secretary has announced a screening program for troops. Get ready for a high-T Department of War

Many imagined his buff, gruff and tattooed traits would help him connect with working-class men. But this logic was flawed

A recent teardown by repair company iFixit confirmed that Trump Mobile's T1 smartphone is an almost entirely unmodified Chinese phone.

Last fall, families in Wilder, Idaho gathered for horse races when helicopters and armored trucks suddenly descended. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The 154ft-tall structure for the UFC Freedom 250 gives Trump a chance to to put the government out to the highest bidder

Trump and Republicans are not interested in combating fraud and corruption. They are interested in ransacking the public good for their own profit

Impunity breeds popular cynicism, and cynicism undergirds autocracy

Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled

That the Trump lawsuit is frivolous is beside the point, just as it was when the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn sued the U.S. government for $50 million for “malicious prosecution” and...

“We welcome Jesus into this place!”

We don't know whether there was a settlement deal or what was in it—and that's the problem.

The president’s second term has been full of donors seeking access, favors for billionaires and apparent conflicts of interest

As the president’s popularity withers, the party has no will to stage an intervention against him

Axios published an exclusive story last night that accomplished what the president needs most: the public impression that the Iran war is ending and that everything's going back to normal. Read it her...

The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking

Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and other southern states stun residents with all-out charge to redraw congressional maps to favor white voters after supreme court ruling

Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels

Nations are judged not only by what they do, but also by what they make us see, and what they force us to feel. Nations are not merely political or economic constructs. They are aesthetic phenomena th...

The edifice suggests a Silicon Valley-style desire to protect the president from national crises of his own making

The image of a youthful Donald Trump, laying his hand on the forehead of a sick or dying man has by now been interred in the meme graveyard. By the time you read this, another will have taken its plac...

The political gap between US evangelicals and Catholics is widening. And Trump won’t tolerate authority outside his own

Decisions at the latest Democratic National Committee meeting emphasized the disconnect between the party’s leadership and its base

Lackluster laws and barriers to enforcement clear many paths for the wealthy to get money to the president.

Ophir Falk, foreign policy adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, put the matter succinctly when answering a question from National Public Radio about whether the Israeli prime minister supported Trump’s peac...

The military approach has backfired, with Iran’s position only strengthened. But the door is still open to a deal

President Trump detailed new plans for a UFC fight the league is planning on the White House grounds in June. “I’ve been involved in a lot of big events, I have never had an event that …

Israel claims attacks on densely populated residential areas that killed more than 200 people were aimed at Hezbollah members

Every month, Rebecca Michalski takes a deep breath before opening her electric bill. She lives on a fixed income, and heating her small house this winter has be

Since the latest tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, Richard Shirreff, NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, has pointed out that US military planners had long considered conflict scenarios with Iran—and that in each, disruption to the Strait of Hormuz was a central risk. UK press reports suggest those concerns were deliberately downplayed at senior levels by the Americans—raising difficult questions about how avoidable risks are being handled by one of our closest allies.

According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither.

About 40 percent of Americans have cut back on streaming services in the last three months because of financial concerns, according to a recent report

In close coordination with the Israeli regime, Donald Trump has embraced Roosevelt’s style of gunboat diplomacy without prior congressional authorization or a declaration of war but with far more viol...

The New Times reports that President Donald Trump’s real problem with former AG Pam Bondi was not Bondi.“President Trump’s pick to replace Pam Bondi will face the same conundrum that every attorney ge...

Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of tr...