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.
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.
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.
The White House declared it had dismantled a $400 billion clean energy loan program. But the Inflation Reduction Act was designed to survive political attacks — and billions in funding are still flowing to renewable projects.
Democracy scholars find the US system has stopped declining but remains stuck at diminished levels established under Trump — the crisis has become the new normal.
The Trump DOJ wants to exempt federal prosecutors from state bar discipline, creating a class of government lawyers who operate outside the ethical rules that constrain every other attorney in America.
The Air Force Academy's appointment of Christian nationalist leaders signals a systematic ideological transformation of U.S. military institutions that will shape officer training for decades.
ICE is deporting parents without their children and pregnant women without asking about family ties, violating policies created after the 2018 family separation crisis, new research shows.
The Trump administration is withholding hundreds of millions — possibly billions — in Medicaid funding from Minnesota over fraud claims, threatening healthcare access for 1.4 million residents and setting a precedent that could be used against other states.
Trump's comment that 'maybe we shouldn't even be there' exposes a president who ordered strikes on Iran without understanding why — while American forces die for objectives he can't explain.