At the November 3 midterm elections, Americans have the chance to weigh in on the authoritarian drift of the Trump presidency. Yet a resurgence of civic engagement may be slow to emerge, due to a political landscape marked by the weakening of the two main parties and the manipulation of electoral districts.

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

Explore the January 6 public record: people, prosecutions, pardons, preserved evidence, and reporting on what happened next.