The Fifth Circuit's 9-8 ruling allowing Ten Commandments displays in Texas classrooms wasn't a legal argument that won — it was a judicial majority that was built. Trump's appellate appointments made this outcome possible.
The U.S. has fired nearly its entire stockpile of long-range stealth cruise missiles in the Iran war. The Pentagon's two-war doctrine — the strategic foundation of American alliance commitments in the Pacific — is now a posture without the weapons to execute it.
Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Here's how the system works, which states are most affected, and what's being done to stop it.
The Trump administration's move to reclassify marijuana as Schedule III is real policy — but it frees no one, reviews no sentence, and arrives precisely when the administration needs a news cycle that looks like reform without requiring any of its difficult work.
Former USAID official Nicholas Enrich watched the Trump administration and DOGE dismantle two decades of global health infrastructure. His eyewitness account documents not waste elimination, but the deliberate destruction of systems — from PEPFAR supply chains to disease surveillance networks — whos
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The Trump administration transferred Social Security records covering 500 million Americans to Elon Musk's DOGE operation. No statute authorized it, no public notice was filed, and the transfer cannot be undone.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot more than six times by ICE agents during a traffic stop. The gang member label, his attorney says, came after the bullets — not before them.
A New York Times investigation by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump was the most hawkish voice in his own administration on Iran — overruling his CIA director, his vice president, and the Joint Chiefs to launch a war on a gut feeling.