In Houston's most polluted and most heavily immigrant neighborhoods, ICE raids, chemical spills, catastrophic floods, and an inaccessible healthcare system have converged into a single, compounding crisis. For hundreds of thousands of residents, survival mode has become the permanent condition — by
A new CNN survey finds 77% of Americans believe White House policies have raised their cost of living — a near-consensus that includes voters from the president's own coalition. The president has already said their financial pain doesn't move him.
The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage Who would you rate as the world’s most unlikeable tech tycoon? Elon Musk is obviously a major contender. The digital warlord Palmer Luckey is also up there. While there’s a lot of competit
Exclusive: In letter seen by the Guardian, 30 members of Congress warn US president’s Cuba military operation would worsen ‘mass suffering’ US politics live – latest updates More than 30 members of Congress have urged Donald Trump’s top officials to end the use of the Guantánamo Bay naval base for i
Amazon's dominance over Western retail isn't a story about innovation. It's the result of predatory pricing, systematic regulatory capture, and two decades of antitrust enforcement that prioritized short-term consumer prices over competitive market structure — until the competition was already gone.
Since U.S. and Israeli strikes began February 28, Iran has executed at least 32 verified political prisoners. The war didn't build Tehran's repression — but it gave the regime exactly what it needed: the world's attention fixed on bombs while the executions proceed in the background.
Ryan Nichols is the fifth person pardoned for the January 6 Capitol attack to face new criminal charges. The pattern is not a coincidence — it is the predictable outcome of clemency used as political reward.
A strike near the UAE's Barakah nuclear plant wasn't aimed at oil. It was aimed at the assumption that Gulf infrastructure exists outside the logic of the Iran conflict — and that assumption is now gone.
Cuba has exhausted its oil and diesel supply as the Trump administration escalates sanctions and raises the prospect of military action. The people living without power are not the Cuban government — and the policy causing this has never been evaluated on humanitarian grounds.
The State Department approved more than $8 billion in arms to Gulf nations and Israel last Friday. Every recipient is actively involved in a war Congress never authorized — and the clock to block the sales is already running.
A Guardian US analysis documents what critics call a deliberate pattern: the Trump administration is not contesting court orders through legal channels — it is simply ignoring them. The people paying the price are sitting in detention facilities, waiting for bond hearings a federal judge already ord
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Fifth Circuit ruling that would have ended mail-order mifepristone prescriptions. The order, signed by Samuel Alito, preserves access for now — but the legal architecture to eliminate medication abortion nationwide is still intact and moving forward.
Qualified immunity is a Supreme Court-created doctrine that shields police officers from civil lawsuits even when they violate constitutional rights — unless the victim can find a prior case with nearly identical facts.
Since ChatGPT's release, "excellent" grades in AI-compatible courses have risen 30% at one selective university. The deeper problem is that higher education built a credentialing system it can no longer defend.
More than half of U.S. business leaders are cutting employee benefits this year, with many citing AI investment as the reason. But the workers losing parental leave and retirement matches aren't the ones making that tradeoff.
When a U.S. president returns from Beijing warning a democratic ally against asserting its own sovereignty, Taiwan's defiant response exposes a structural shift in how Washington signals — or fails to signal — its commitments to the Indo-Pacific.