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Tulsi Gabbard will leave her position in the Trump administration to care for her sick husband. During her time as Director of National Intelligence, she has repeatedly put the president’s needs ahead of the country’s.
Everything feels broken at once — but the failures aren’t separate. They’re the same collapse, playing out at different scales. Yet there’s surprising reason for hope.
A federal judge ruled that the White House must comply with the Presidential Records Act. Whether Donald Trump and other senior officials will actually do so is anybody’s guess.
Is the mask finally coming off the long-delayed Pathways Alliance CCS Project?
Donald Trump waited until the last minute to make an endorsement in the Texas Republican primary. In addition to his chosen candidate —scandal-plagued state Attorney General Ken Paxton — the main beneficiary is the Democrat in the race.
As his retribution tour reaches its climax, Donald Trump hopes that his hand-picked candidate will take out Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) in the most expensive House primary in history.
“Coastal Louisiana has evidently already crossed the point of no return,” says new research.
If you think for yourself, you don’t need the establishment telling you what to read — or eat.
Even by Donald Trump’s standards, the creation of a $1.8 billion slush fund that will reward people who committed crimes on his behalf is brazen.
Todd Blanche went on Fox News on Sunday to confirm that the Department of Justice is wasting a bunch of taxpayer money on investigations into Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Returning to the scene of some of the crimes. But only some.
The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority wants Americans to believe that racism isn’t an issue anymore in the US. Donald Trump and Republicans across the South demonstrated this week that it is alive and thriving.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) wasted no time before blasting Donald Trump following his primary loss on Saturday night. Will he become the latest Republican who, unburdened from having to win reelection, voices his opposition to the president more explicitly… and will his actions then match his words?
“We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.” — Helen Thomas
It’s not exactly a conspiracy, but the outcome of the redistricting wars speaks for itself.
We imagine what would happen if staffers had to take a shot every time Trump administration officials tried to blame Joe Biden for the mess the country is in.
Iran’s real conflict may have less to do with uranium than with a regime losing control of its people, its proxies, and its purpose.
While Americans are hurting, Donald Trump is preoccupied with golden statues of himself and various taxpayer-funded vanity projects.
Roughly 97 percent of the clothing sold in the US retail market is imported — mostly from Asia. Closing the Strait of Hormuz may shut off the supply.
The two-party system in the US primarily serves the two parties and their wealthy donors. However, there are some short-term fixes that could give voters more of a voice in who gets to represent them.
House Democrats want Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign over misleading statements he made about Jeffrey Epstein. However, if that were the bar, President JD Vance would need to fill a lot of positions.
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has given the breakaway state long-sought visibility. It has also drawn it into the growing tensions reshaping the region.
Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels.
Republicans loved to talk about inflation when Joe Biden was president. Now, they’d rather not, and they only have Donald Trump and themselves to blame for soaring prices.
Donald Trump loves conspiracy theories, complaining about his 2020 election loss, plotting revenge against his enemies, and, apparently, being racist. All of these were on full display Monday night during his latest social media posting bonanza.
Coal mining brings a slew of risks to communities, but “being employed is good for your health.”
Whether it was unwittingly or not, the way the media covered the April jobs report was a massive journalistic fail and made a non-accomplishment sound like a big win.
The redistricting war continued Monday with the Supreme Court paving the way for Alabama to use a racially gerrymandered map and Virginia Democrats appealing the decision that invalidated their attempt to redraw the state’s congressional districts in their favor.
The average person still doesn’t get how this all affects them. That can be fixed.
By exaggerating the threat Iran’s nuclear program poses and maligning the deal Barack Obama struck a decade ago to contain it, Donald Trump has boxed himself in with few options to end the war in a way that will deliver him a victory and end the global economic chaos he triggered.
The pressure is on for the many the people who now need to explain why their earlier versions of events are incomplete.
Inhale! Beauty surrounds us. Every moment is precious. We simply need to see, feel, and experience the wonder of life.
If “America First” means leaving the US without friends in a world where everybody needs some, then Donald Trump is doing a great job.
Trump puts his name on everything and builds giant monuments to his greatness. Now his crypto donors have erected a “golden calf” in his honor.
Relative stability has given way to a rather frantic scramble for new ways to move Middle East oil.
While Republicans are getting away with rigging their congressional maps in unprecedented ways, the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday shelved one of the two meaningful attempts of Democrats to fight back.
Prediction markets are everywhere. But nobody’s explaining how they work, why they beat experts, or why institutions fight them so hard. Until now.
A federal court ruled on Thursday that yet another one of Donald Trump’s attempts to burden US businesses and consumers with tariffs is illegal.
Establishment Democrats don’t trust their own voters to make the decision of who should represent them in some of the races that will decide who controls Congress next year.
Illegal trade in rare ornamental plants is booming — fueled by weak enforcement and a changing climate. But the theft of 1,000 cacti from the Chilean desert has led to a landmark court case in Italy.
In what is an indictment of the GOP and how much it has become the party of Donald Trump, at least five Indiana Republicans will be out of a job next year because they dared defy the president on redistricting.
Will Donald ex Machina save California’s Democrats?
A new “working-class climate agenda” seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.