America’s friends, partners, and enemies are making decisions now without waiting for the Trump administration to respond.

Many dictatorships have ended peacefully, so the end of Orbán’s rule in Hungary isn’t proof he was never really taking the country in an authoritarian direction, writes James Kirchick.

President Trump threatens to jail a journalist over Iran war reporting, while a federal judge rules twice that the Pentagon's press restrictions violate the First Amendment. From Watergate to Abu Ghraib, government leaks have been the sources for some of the most consequential reporting. Now, the Trump administration insists the public doesn't have the right to know.

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The department has issued a prepare-to-deploy order for a Army military police brigade stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

President Trump threatened “a day of reckoning & retribution” against Minnesota, after state and local officials sued to stop his sweeping ICE deployment targeting immigrants. Now, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are under criminal investigation for allegedly impeding federal immigration enforcement. How Trump is targeting anyone who doesn’t pledge fealty to his agenda until acquiescence becomes the norm.

NBC News reporter Jacob Soboroff’s latest book is a terrifying, sobering account from the front lines of California’s Palisades Fire.

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With Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger's electoral wins in New Jersey and Virginia, 10 Democratic women will be leading states in 2026.

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

What does “minimum force” really look like? New videos surface showing ICE agents making arrests in broad daylight, near schools, in front of children, and on busy streets. The videos show federal agents intensifying their aggressive tactics in America’s big cities. Writer Radley Balko says, "The fact that we all have a camera in our pockets, and we have instant access to share these videos with the world, is an extremely powerful tool… These videos are having an effect."

This week, the Supreme Court gave ICE the green light to racially profile people during immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s core protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Using the shadow docket—without hearings or explanation—the Court effectively declared that constitutional rights sometimes depend on what you look like.

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority this week effectively greenlit racial profiling during ICE sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches. Individuals can now be targeted if they “look” like they don’t belong—a move Melissa Murray calls “after-the-fact justice.” She warns we are “moving dangerously close" into real tyranny and explains how Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence plays “fast and loose with other people’s lives,” ignoring the Constitution’s commitment to individual dignity and rights.

President Trump's stunning online threat against America's third-largest city will test the power of the resistance.

There was no legal or moral justification for the Trump-ordered boat bombing that killed 11 Venezuelans. It could be just the start.

In which The Wall Street Journal manages to sell out

Washington, DC—”Not on Our Watch” is the message Veterans’ are sending the President. The two beige Humvees parked on the bricks looked like they belonged at a military base instead of outside Union S...

In the face of a would-be strongman, the leadership of the Democratic Party cannot seem to find the front of the battle line.

An economy that works for everyone isn’t a fantasy; it’s a choice. We’ve just been making the wrong one. Now it’s time for America to choose better.

Dr. Jennifer Layden was the Director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for five years until this week, when she became one of four senior CDC officials to resign amid budget cuts and increased political pressure from President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Public health should be bipartisan,” Layden tells Ali Velshi, explaining that budget cuts made it “challenging to do my work.” Many don’t realize how dangerous this undermining of our public health agencies could be since Layden notes that “the work of public health often goes unnoticed until there is a major outbreak.” 

Plus, Josh Shapiro’s muddled message on antisemtism.

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