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.
The Maine Wire presents itself as grassroots local journalism. Leonard Leo's donor network bankrolls it — and it has spent years targeting Maine's Somali community. The Intercept's reporting exposes a template for converting megadonor money into local ethnic hostility.
Since October, the U.S. has admitted 4,499 refugees. 4,496 are white South Africans. Three are from everywhere else on earth. That ratio is not administrative drift — it is the architecture of the policy.
The First Lady's rare public statement contradicts her husband's own Justice Department, puts survivors in legal jeopardy, and arrives at the most suspicious possible moment. A closer look at why none of this makes sense.
Vice President Vance’s new role as fraud czar will “primarily” focus on Democrat-led states, President Trump announced Friday morning. “We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’ and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,’ but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in Californ
Surpassing 1 million deportations this year hinges on worksite enforcement — which would enrage farm and construction groups (and possibly voters).