Liberia funded civil war with blood diamonds — then rebuilt. The Palm Farm project invested $140K and transformed a region. If it works there, it can work in Sudan. Part 5 of a six-part investigation.
Signed in 1977 to constrain presidential power, IEEPA has been invoked 77 times to freeze assets, impose sanctions, and — until the Supreme Court said no — levy tariffs. Here is how the most powerful economic weapon in the president's arsenal actually works.
A jury found Live Nation ran an illegal monopoly and overcharged fans. Now comes the harder part — the history of antitrust enforcement suggests the verdict may be the easy step.
Democratic presidential hopefuls are racing to reject AIPAC's brand. Down-ballot, the party's financial relationship with the lobby is intact — and the lobby knows exactly where its leverage actually lives.
From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition Zappa Montag steps outside his home to a thicket of redwoods, Pacific madrones and oak trees. Dozens of fruit trees dot the 76 hectares (189 acres), along with a large garden replete with squash, cu
Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell leave Congress the same day — one after admitting an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, one after a years-long ethics probe. Neither faced a formal sanction. That's not accountability. That's the system working exactly as designed.
The Trump administration is not corrupting the press. It is replacing it. And the media criticism frameworks built over three decades cannot describe what comes next.
19 million children out of school. Child soldiers. Mercury poisoning. Sudan is producing the largest lost generation since Cambodia — and the world barely notices. Part 4 of a six-part investigation.
The tin in your phone's solder, the tantalum in its capacitors, the tungsten in its vibration motor, the gold on its connectors — all four can be traced to conflict zones where armed groups profit from extraction. Here is what conflict minerals are and why they matter.
Congress never authorized the Iran war. Trump cited Article II. The War Powers Resolution failed three times. Here is what the law says, what the president claims, and why it matters.
From Texas Republicans to California teachers, communities across the U.S. are organizing against an unregulated AI datacenter boom — and the bipartisan coalition forming around local water, power, and autonomy is one the industry wasn't built to handle.
The House Intelligence Committee has handed DOJ documents involving former CIA Director John Brennan — the latest move in a documented pattern of deploying federal prosecutorial power against Trump's perceived critics.
Foreign service officers fired in Elon Musk's workforce purge warn the State Department can no longer evacuate Americans stranded in the Iran conflict. The cuts didn't happen in a vacuum — they happened months before a war broke out in the region.
A Supreme Court ruling on mail ballot grace periods could disenfranchise thousands of Alaskan voters — and the communities most exposed are rural and Indigenous, the ones the postal system has always served worst.
Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a gap narrower than the English Channel. Iran has blocked it. The U.S. just declared a naval blockade. Here is everything you need to understand about the most important waterway on Earth.
President Trump is pairing his Iran blockade with a sales pitch: Countries squeezed by the Strait of Hormuz — especially China — should buy more oil from the U.S. instead. Why it matters: The U.S. rise to become the world's largest oil and gas producer — and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas