Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest at Sandringham suggests that the antiquated principle sovereign immunity may no longer hold true today.
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Current high school students shared incidents of white teachers using racial epithets, including the n-word, and one saying, “You’re acting like a park ape.”
The fear driving much public commentary about the danger to midterm elections is not merely that election officials will be investigated or that evidence would be seized.
The FDA’s move risks fueling further mistrust in vaccines, aligning with a wider push from Trump's federal health officials to question long-settled science.
We now have a system where, because of the whims of the president, the Department of Justice has become utterly weaponized against his perceived enemies.
A “domestic terrorism” label that comes before the facts does not just risk being wrong in one case. It teaches the public, case by case, to treat the term as propaganda.
Although the surge has brought ICE and CBP agents closer to a traditional police role, they are pursuing a militarized warrior model of policing.
ICE and CBP have some, though not all, of the characteristics of a paramilitary in the second sense of the term, referring to forces as repressive political agents.
When officials reshape the facts, the damage isn’t only to the record. The damage is to the basic belief that a democratic public can know what its government has done.
In 2026, filming still matters. The challenge is ensuring the act of witnessing oppression and violence doesn’t quietly become a new form of exposure.
It is one thing to fire ambassadors who have impeded the president’s agenda in some way; it is quite another to clear them out preemptively as Trump has done.
The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the military in civilian matters but, over time, Congress has passed at least 26 exemptions to the act that allow the president to send troops into states.
Processing more Venezuelan oil might help make U.S. Gulf Coast refineries a bit. But since there was no shortage of products in the U.S. market, don’t expect consumers to see much savings.
With the headlines about Venezuela, threats to Greenland, high prices, ICE and Border Patrol shootings, the Epstein files and the health care subsidies fight, news of Trump's anti-climate actions have been overlooked for months.
In 2021, senators Mike Lee, Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy collectively got together and tried to create a national security document that would restrain presidential unilateralism. It did not even sort-of pass.
As AI deepfake capabilities mature, the perceptual gap between synthetic and authentic human media will continue to narrow.
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