Donald Trump said that Israel is already planning “more brutal” attacks on Iran, and touted the lethality of American weapons, which does not make it sound as though the US was not involved in the overnight strikes, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio had asserted earlier.
$500 drones destroyed $100M Russian bombers. This attack changes everything about modern warfare and exposes America’s most critical vulnerabilities.
Following Israel’s attack on Iran, the US was quick to claim that it was not involved in the strikes. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s claims of being a respected world leader who makes the world a safer place were one of the casualties of the attack.
An ugly incident in California revealed an even uglier truth: Fascism has arrived in America.
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Rocket soot and vaporized satellite metals represent a massive — and largely unchecked — geoengineering experiment with massive potential planetary downsides.
If it weren’t for Donald Trump, Karoline Leavitt would be the most proficient liar in the White House.
A surveillance state with a MAHA movement.
RFK Jr. once again goes viral for viruses.
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“War is no longer just kinetic. It’s cognitive.”
The stain of January 6 clings to Republicans decrying LA protests.
Immigrants are people, and everything you, personally, can do to help them makes a difference.
“We couldn’t have scripted this any better.”
The Energy Department’s order “will result in American households paying even higher electricity bills,” warned one consumer advocate.
As tensions escalate between Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over National Guard and Marine troops sent to Los Angeles, it’s getting louder in the Republicans’ xenophobic echo chamber.
Protest changes by the day — and the ZIP code.
Every American should pay close attention to what is happening in Los Angeles right now, because the developments over the next day or so will go a long way toward determining whether (and how quickly) Donald Trump succeeds in turning the US into an authoritarian state.
Republicans believe that only people they approve of deserve due process. That is not how America works, and the real test of the nation’s character is when the rights of bad people have to be protected.
Donald Trump is itching to escalate the situation in Los Angeles by throwing the National Guard and possibly US troops into the mix. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is telling him to butt out.
Republicans in Congress are happy to watch Trump disrupt the lives of millions, but when he and Elon start going at it, they are finally concerned.
Imagine having Don Corleone in charge of the Department of Justice. It wouldn’t be any different than it is now with Don Trump.
Under the auspices of a seldomly used law, Donald Trump is granting himself emergency powers to create chaos in California.
As the administration continues to legislate horrors, we can turn our eyes to those in need…right in front of us.
Contrary to the Trump administration’s previous claims, it wasn’t difficult at all to get El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.
China’s contradictions may be its greatest strength — and weakness. A look inside the civilization attempting something unprecedented in history.
The fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk may just result in right-wing audiences, who have been shielded from reality by Fox News et al., learning a few inconvenient truths.
Only 40 miles separate voracious Asian carp from the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. To stop them, Illinois must reckon with its legacy of coal ash pollution.
Is Donald Trump looking for a backdoor way to invalidate laws Joe Biden signed and judges he appointed? We fear that might be the case. Here is how it would work.
When Nancy Mace vowed on Wednesday to put the safety of American women and girls first, could she have been referring to Donald Trump? Inquiring minds want to know.
Zhirinovsky boasted that Moscow should rule lands from “Kabul to Istanbul,” and Russian soldiers would one day “wash their boots in the Indian Ocean.”
Should federal district judges block the unlawful actions of Donald Trump? Republicans don’t think so.
Ukraine knocked out one of the legs of Russia’s nuclear triad. This is astonishing. It is also a revolution in military affairs and profoundly destabilizing.
Proposed rules would force operators to measure methane emissions, fix leaks and — in some cases — install gas collection systems.
After putting the US economy on thin ice, Donald Trump is looking for someone to blame when it crashes.
Qatari virtues and vices are very much in the eye of the beholder.
To prevent the American people from being outraged about the specifics of their “Big, Beautiful Bill,” Republicans have resorted to obfuscation and lies. The media could put a stop to this.
In the last article of our series on authoritarianism, we explain why it is so important that Donald Trump does not escape accountability again.
The biggest story of our lifetime is that Donald Trump is nuts. Too bad that the mainstream media does such a poor job of covering it.
You have to understand that Musk has his own definitions for waste, fraud, and abuse.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Saturday emphatically proved that she is a terrible human being. But at least those who lose health insurance because of GOP lawmakers like her can take solace in the fact that, like all humans, she will one day perish from this earth.
Which is worse, the cliff or the off-ramp?
Republicans keep saying the quiet part out loud, so we are wondering what it would look like if they actually told their voters the truth.
A former NATO ambassador shows how Trump has shattered 80 years of global trust in just 120 days, forcing allies to act without America for the first time.
Until today, insiders knew Leonard Leo as the man who engineered a right-wing takeover of the US judiciary. Now, MAGA nation will believe that he is somehow responsible for any ruling in which judges uphold the Constitution.
The Trump administration is undoing reporting and regulation of a powerful climate pollutant. Can nonprofit and third-party trackers fill the gap?