Politics Features

During an Oct. 15 press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump claimed that the people of Chicago, most notably “beautiful Black women,” are walking around the city in MAGA hats, begging for federal forces to rid the city of crime. “Please let the president in and we don’t …

The vision of a child bride is a deeply foreign concept to most Americans. Underage marriage is regarded by most as an abroad problem, or the type of detestable horror committed by isolated malcontent cult leaders, later to be turned into a true crime documentary one laments over with their …

Massachusetts has a rich history of giving the middle finger to tyrants and bloated politicians, and the Dropkick Murphys have been providing the backing track to Boston’s antiauthoritarianism since the 1990s. Already an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, frontman Ken Casey is calling for the punk artists and musicians to …

Stacey Abrams — the two time Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia — has a new mission: defending democracy and diversity, equity, and inclusion in equal measure. At a moment when Donald Trump’s administration has made a crusade out of stamping out DEI initiatives in government — even going so far …

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out in Washington, D.C., and cities across the nation on Saturday, to protest what they characterize as the increasingly authoritarian actions of the Trump administration. “We’re here representing normal people — regular, peaceful Americans — who are against what this administration is …

Christopher Landau was confirmed as President Donald Trump’s deputy secretary of state earlier this year, with a relatively strong amount of Democratic support and a reputation as a serious diplomat with bonafides. Now, Landau is creating memes on his official government X account about revoking the visas of a range …

The video is slightly absurdist. Three ICE agents, clad in full tactical camouflage with their faces covered by black masks, seize a man dressed in a fuzzy giraffe onesie singing an anti-ICE cover of Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” The backing track abruptly cuts out as two agents …

One of the first things you’ll see upon entering the ornate terminal at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station are gaggles of National Guard troops loitering about, clad in full tactical camo. Most look bored, a hand slung casually over the rifle they’re now authorized to carry, a suspicious eye on the …

Americans are a sick people. Among their economic peers they expect to live shorter lives, experience higher rates of chronic disease, and spend more on their care and upkeep. The baseline necessities for maintaining a healthy human body over the course of a lifetime are often a luxury. Nevertheless, one …

Jackie and her kids had been missing for four days. When Mimi Lettunich, a family friend with powerful social connections in Portland, Oregon, learned of their disappearance, she spared no effort to locate the immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen children. It would take another eight days — and …