The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.

It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right

The amount of health care services people use varies widely across the population and can change year to year. People may require a higher amount of care in one...

More than 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped American politics with its Citizens United campaign finance ruling, Montana voters will decide whether to make their state the first in the ​na...

Republican congressional candidate Aaron Flint opened his National Republican Congressional Committee field office in Bozeman Monday as he and Democratic opponent Sam Forstag compete in Montana’s 1st ...

The document also appears to leave the door open to selling federal lands that are not national parks or wilderness areas.

Two-thirds of Americans are against laws that would limit transgender rights, a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll found. That opposition includes majorities of every political ideology from liberal to ...

The largest benefactor of the Interior Department’s most recent illegal wind buyout is an Australian-American billionaire whose private equity firm will receive $900 million in exchange for a stake in a methane gas terminal in Louisiana. The near-billion-dollar buyout comes after the same billionaire gave a $1 million bribe to the originator of the deal.

Montana Freedom Caucus Chairman Jerry Schillinger tried to direct $600,000 of state money to a private company even after it lost the bid.

18 New York Times ‘Trump says’ headlines in a recent 3-month period spread misinformation

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

A DOGE funding freeze delayed $10 million in Minnesota wildfire prevention. Now, thousands of acres in Superior National Forest are ablaze.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic. Like a coat of t...

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Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to shrink the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, three sources with knowl…

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