Pete Hegseth told Congress the White House doesn't need war authorization for Iran. What he described is the effective abolition of Article I's war powers clause — stated plainly, in a congressional hearing, with no apparent consequence.
Trump's first trade war gave Beijing seven years to study American pressure tactics and build countermeasures. The second term finds China with diversified trade partners, reduced dollar exposure, and a domestic chip program that sanctions accelerated rather than stopped.
The DOJ served grand jury subpoenas on Wall Street Journal reporters over coverage of the Iran war. The target isn't a leaker — it's the press freedom to report on a war Congress never authorized.
DHS has sued the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces to seize 14 acres at the base of Mount Cristo Rey — a sacred pilgrimage site visited by 40,000 faithful annually — for border wall construction. The party that spent decades wielding religious freedom as a political weapon is now using eminent domain a
The FBI reviewed an anonymous tip accusing Mahmoud Khalil of calling for violence — and closed the probe within days, finding it did not warrant investigation. ICE arrested him two days later. The administration kept calling him a threat.
Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay active player, has died at 47. Twelve years after his historic coming out, not one active male player in the four major North American professional leagues has followed — and the institutions that celebrated him have done little to change the conditions that
Trump told reporters Tuesday that the financial situations of Americans motivate him 'not even a little bit' during Iran negotiations — an admission that directly contradicts the economic justifications his administration has offered for the conflict.
A decade after Standing Rock, nine Sioux Nation groups have halted a graphite drilling project near a recognized ceremonial site using proactive litigation — a legal strategy that pipeline opponents in the same state are now studying closely.
The Justice Department's intervention in xAI's lawsuit against Colorado isn't primarily a constitutional event. It's a market-shaping one — and the beneficiaries are exactly who you'd expect.
The term 'food desert' suggests a natural void. Food apartheid names the system that created it — and identifies who profits from keeping it in place.
Sen. Mark Kelly's challenge to the Iran war's logic is the most direct Democratic dissent in two months of hostilities — and it exposes a pattern of congressional abdication that has outlasted every American military conflict since 2001.
Virginia's Supreme Court struck down a Democratic redistricting map, erasing four expected House flips before a single ballot is cast. The ruling is the latest in a decade-long Republican project to lock in legislative majorities through courts — not campaigns.
Settlers in the occupied West Bank forced a Palestinian family to exhume their recently buried father. The UN called it 'appalling and emblematic.' The structure that made it possible — and the impunity that will follow — is not incidental to U.S. policy. It is inseparable from it.
A new Anthropic study of over a million conversations finds that experienced AI users outperform newcomers by 10 percent — a gap that compounds over time and is already tracking existing class lines. No policy is designed to close it.
The White House is invoking a 1950 Cold War statute to fund petroleum refining, coal plants, and gas pipelines — using the Iran war as legal cover for a fossil fuel expansion that environmental review would otherwise slow. The emergency ends. The infrastructure doesn't.
The DOJ's push to reinstate firing squad executions isn't a logistical workaround for drug shortages. It's a deliberate choice to make state killing more visible — and to normalize the idea that government violence should look like punishment.