Politics Features

There was every reason to assume that Elon Musk would vote for and potentially endorse Donald Trump during the 2024 election season. By the time the campaign entered its summer stretch, the tech billionaire had already spent months posting on X, his social media platform, about his slide to the …

Donald Trump’s administration is giving churches a green light to explicitly endorse political candidates, without fear of losing their nonprofit tax status, under a proposed court settlement. And a leading figure on the Religious Left insists that’s a good thing for Democrats. The Internal Revenue Service — now led by …

President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy masked, armed federal agents to round up community members is one of the more horrifying features of his second term. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) brutal crackdown on undocumented migrants across the country has led many activists, members of the public, and Democratic politicians …

This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. Major retirement systems in blue states — where many governors and attorneys general are fighting hard to counter extreme and likely illegal actions by the Trump administration — have invested billions of dollars in some of …

The butterfly effect of a disgraced financier and convicted sex offender’s death continues to be felt years later, as the highest levels of Donald Trump’s second administration are embroiled in a bitter feud over Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged “client list.” “This fight is taking up way too much of …

Last week, President Donald Trump signed what is likely the most regressive U.S. tax-and-spending bill in U.S. history, giving the top one percent of families more than $1 trillion in tax cuts while slashing Medicaid health coverage and food assistance for the poor. It is also one of the worst …

Over the Fourth of July weekend, President Donald Trump signed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” into law. You’ve probably heard that it contains deep cuts to Medicaid spending and other social safety net programs, and that millions of people are expected to lose their health insurance. It’s no secret that …

President Donald Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines, urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The latest example came on Monday, when the Department of Health and Human …

After a lengthy investigation into remaining questions about the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department and FBI today released a memo declaring that, contrary to various popular conspiracy theories, he was not murdered but in fact killed himself. Investigators also concluded that he never had a “client list” …

Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s used every means possible to promote himself and prop up his agenda in unprecedented ways — even as he pulls apart the government brick by brick. Now, it’s happening at the embattled Social Security Administration, which manages America’s core safety-net program. On Thursday, …