Politics

An attempted ousting of the nation’s head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A series of resignations amid escalating pressure from the Trump administration to change vaccine policy. As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversees the agency and attempts to mold it in his …

T he first ICE detention center inaugurated in the second Trump era is a squat, soot-colored building surrounded by parking lots, warehouses, and petrochemical holding tanks on a deserted stretch of industrial waterfront in Newark, New Jersey. In May, this patch of asphalt and chainlink was the site of a …

Federal officials arrested two firefighters on Wednesday during what appeared to be an immigration raid on first responders combating the ongoing Bear Gulch wildfire in Washington state. The arrests come as the Trump administration continues to insist that its nationwide crackdown on undocumented immigration is primarily targeting criminals and gang …

This story was produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom TYPE INVESTIGATIONS and THE MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION. AS SOON AS THEY TAKE OFF from the Panamanian coast, there is a sigh of relief. Surrounded by 30 other Venezuelan migrants, packed inside an overloaded midsize speedboat, Edinson holds on tightly to …

President Donald Trump is continuing to transform the Justice Department into a tool for vengeance against his political enemies, including billionaire philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros. “George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, …

Donald Trump has been ruling like an authoritarian since retaking office in January, repeatedly thumbing his nose at Congress, the Constitution, and any other check on presidential power. Trump appeared to tease the notion of the United States becoming a full-fledged dictatorship while signing executive orders in the Oval Office …

Somewhere in Tallahassee, at the turn of the millennia, a young Byron Donalds stood in the parking lot of his local Cracker Barrel — then his place of employment — and contemplated the man atop the wood-and-whimsy pancake palace. It was in that moment, staring into the gold and brown …

Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States, siccing the Justice Department on his political enemies while deploying federal troops to “liberate” Washington, D.C., where crime has been steadily declining. Democratic politicians are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks …

Every so often, Donald Trump will convene his closest advisers at the White House and smile as they lick his boots to a mirror shine. These Cabinet meetings are effectively televised devotionals to the president’s greatness, with his appointees taking turns lauding him shamelessly. Attorney General Pam Bondi went so …

There aren’t many activists who have directly influenced the course of the United States more than Leonard Leo. The right-wing money man and longtime Federalist Society honcho effectively built the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, feeding Donald Trump the justices who would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade and grant the …