Quick Facts

Has the U.S. entered a moment when members of Congress will reassert themselves the way they did at the tail end of the Vietnam war?

So far, Trump has called for the Iranian military and the Revolutionary Guard to lay down their arms. But the Trump administration has provided no guidance on how to do so, or to whom to do so.

Trump doesn’t mind creating a little bit of chaos and figuring out a way to make a profit on the other side of that.

Perhaps one of the most important measures is getting significant voter turnout that delivers large winning margins make efforts to manipulate results more difficult.

Body cameras will not deter violence committed by ICE agents unless policies clearly dictate their use.

The Colbert incident highlights the growing restrictions on editorial independence during the second Trump administration—either imposed by government threat or corporate fear.

Many importers have already paid out billions in tariffs since Trump started imposing them. Whether they get their money back is just one open question.

Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest at Sandringham suggests that the antiquated principle sovereign immunity may no longer hold true today.

The new bill says Florida's emergency fund can only be used for natural disasters, not immigration detention.

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.

In addition to strict documentary requirements for registration and voting, the bill would force states to conduct frequent purges of their voter rolls and share information with DHS.

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.