One of the two people who recently died of measles in Pennsylvania was an infant, the state Health Department said. The department announced that two unvaccinated residents had died of measles, the fi...

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

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The Justice Department opened a separate investigation this year into the Democratic governor over allegations he helped impede immigration enforcement.

Federal contractors bulldozed a centuries-old geoglyph sacred to the Tohono O’odham — even after the tribe flagged it for protection.

The FCC chair is a straight arrow, but the arrow is aimed at the heart of democracy

Plus: ABC and Disney push back against Trump, and a hopeful sign for a rescheduled White House Correspondents' celebration

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention

An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody