The mid-decade redistricting wars are a race to the bottom. But the further down we go, the harder it will be to climb back up.

As Trump’s tirade reveals too much, a political scientist explains how his pathologies badly undermine him on the global stage—and why his failures abroad are producing worsening autocracy at home.

How do we stop this war? How do we redirect the money being wasted into the schools and health centers, bike lanes and sustainable-energy infrastructures that we all so desperately need?

Disenfranching 40% of a state’s citizens cannot be reconciled with representative democracy.

Without the Voting Rights Act, “multiracial democracy in America will be under threat forever,” reporter Ari Berman says.

House GOP leader lies about gas prices and economy on CNBC. Fact-checked by host. Inflation rising, not lowering as claimed.

In case you forgot, Border Patrol official Greg Bovino is here to remind you that he is, in fact, a Nazi sympathizer.

​"It seems one of the ways this effort will take shape is, as with DHS's deportation efforts, to racially profile voters and try to invalidate their votes by pretending they're not citizens," said one...

Democrats have been quick to condemn the HHS secretary but slow to act against him. But cracks in his “Make American Healthy Again” movement are beginning to show, handing his critics a weapon.

Approving replacements for Donald Trump’s embattled deputies could get complicated, lawmakers are warning.

​Civil society will push states to act in line with their existing legal obligations to phase out all fossil fuels—including by advancing a Fossil Fuel Treaty that can govern a just and rights-based transition.

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The president and GOP House speaker wanted a 5-year extension of a despised domestic spying bill. Instead, they got just two weeks. "Now, they will have to fight in daylight tomorrow!" said one Democr...

Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

“Supporting Stephen Miller’s warrantless surveillance agenda would be a massive detriment to the privacy and civil rights and liberties of people in the United States."

A Nobel Prize winner has pinpointed a concerning practice that is currently underway in part of Donald Trump's administration. Between the cost of living crisis, war with Iran, and the slow release of...

The lack of plans, rationale, or end goals. The lies. And perhaps most of all, that girls’ school. This war is another blot on our country.

Is retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Shawn Harris poised to make history in Georgia?

The DNC sues Trump for threatening 2026 elections with federal agent deployment. Lawsuit alleges violations of FOIA and voter intimidation.

Prior to President Donald Trump’s election to his second term of office, many economists sounded alarm bells that two major pillars of his domestic agenda — tariffs and mass deportations, both of whic...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Defense Department allegedly blew through $22 million on lobsters and ribeye steak in a Sept. 2025, end-of-year spree.

Prior to President Donald Trump’s election to his second term of office, many economists sounded alarm bells that two major pillars of his domestic agenda — tariffs and mass deportations, both of whic...

The below text was published as “Who Goes Trump? Tyranny as a Triumph of Narcissism” in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.”

Arguments begin in a lawsuit against the Defense Department after the Pentagon established new rules limiting what journalists can report.

� When church and state overlap, brutality follows, and justice bends with the whip. Blurred lines between religion and government produced the Spanish Inquisition , ...

​In the short term: Americans must demand Congress uses the powers it has to reign in the imperial presidency. In the long term, we must agitate and work toward accountability for killing.

Despite what the president says, evidence shows that immigrants do far more to aid the American labor force than to hinder it.

The largest U.S. diplomatic drawdown in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq War is creating an apparently unplanned-for crisis for the Trump administration.

“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of t...

It’s easy, looking at the past year, to see the damage the administration has done. But researchers are also stepping up, trying to fill the gaps.

The Trump administration’s relentless rollback of public health and environmental protections has allowed widespread toxic exposures to flourish, warn experts who helped implement safeguards now under...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), with an assist from controversial podcaster Benny Johnson, set off a social media firestorm on Thursday after they combined to post two pictures from Hillary Clinton’s behi...

Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson issued a blistering warning to President Donald Trump's closest allies, including "the criminals at the Department of Justice," amid mounting allegations over ...

For close on 20 years, the American public has been promised the truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. For close on 20 years, that promise has been broken. Again and again and again.We know Epstein ra...

Trump has no authority to run federal elections. In this year’s midterms, the big threat to democracy is apathy and complacency.

"Not another cent for private defense contractors and forever wars," wrote Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Roger Sollenberger, a former Daily Beast reporter, has been going where the MSM fear to tread. He’s found evidence that three interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when ...

There are enormous geopolitical, economic and climate ramifications to the U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition. If you live in America, basically none of them are good.