Top Democrats are laying out the stakes of a national congressional redistricting fight, after Texas obeyed Donald Trump’s order to adopt a new, wildly gerrymandered congressional map in advance of the 2026 midterm elections. On a conference call organized by party chair Ken Martin, Democratic leaders justified their plan to …
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It has been one of the most tumultuous and significant weeks in the global political battle over the war in Ukraine. It began last Friday, with the cringe-worthy summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed just three days later by seven of Europe’s most …
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Donald Trump’s administration now intends to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man it unlawfully sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, to Uganda — after he refused a plea deal, was released from jail, and was allowed to return to his family. “We are not going to stop …
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald Trump’s forces have tear gassed a public school into submission. Or at least into fleeing its longtime campus. The local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) complex in Portland has become a near-nightly flashpoint this summer for local activists demonstrating against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign …
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Behind closed doors at the swanky Sea Island Resort this past January, a Republican financial official from Kentucky claimed that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called her cell phone early in the morning in early 2023, “absolutely furious,” and threatened to oust her in the next election after she put …
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If Chris Smalls is still feeling the effects of his tumultuous five day stint in Israel’s Givon Prison, he’s not outwardly showing it. He strolls through Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts alongside his assistant Julieta, admiring politically charged artwork by artist Estéban Whiteside before reaching a back room …
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A quarter mile from the White House, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in downtown Washington was once Abraham Lincoln’s place of worship. A black hitching pole where he would tie up the family carriage is still here. Lincoln would come here most Sundays during the Civil War, burying his …
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This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. In the weeks since President Donald Trump targeted American cities for “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history” and deployed U.S. troops to the streets of Los Angeles, federal and local law enforcement officers have …
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Almost three months before Zohran Mamdani’s earthquake of a victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary this summer, a substitute teacher and long-time union organizer named Alex Brower shocked Milwaukee City Hall by winning a special election for city council as a Democratic Socialist. Brower ran on highly specific …
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A new directive signed last week by President Donald Trump gives the Pentagon authorization to use military force against Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist organizations, according to administration sources. A U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone certain details regarding the Trump-signed directive, which was …
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