Politics

Since the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump has been trying to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants born in the United States, in a direct challenge to the plain language of the Constitution. Now, he’s openly musing about attempting to take away the citizenship …

The Pentagon deleted and reposted a video boasting about how President Donald Trump’s administration will increase its use of drone warfare. The first version featured the Metallica song “Enter Sandman” in the background. The second has no music. A Metallica representative confirmed to Rolling Stone that the use of “Enter …

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, which this week praised Adolf Hitler and began using antisemitic dog whistles, said Saturday it would abandon its “Hitler fanfic.” But it lied about creating a nauseating sexual post about Linda Yaccarino, who was CEO of X Corp until Wednesday, when she resigned. The xAI chatbot, …

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 …

Andrew Schulz, the controversial comedian and podcaster who proudly voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, has apparently been shocked to learn that Donald Trump is not doing the things he promised to do. As if there weren’t a bounty of evidence out there already that this exactly what …

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 …

Donald Trump hasn’t been happy with Vladimir Putin lately, and he took out his frustrations with Russia’s president this week by announcing that the United States would resume sending military aid to Ukraine. When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, …

New text messages and documents have bolstered a whistleblower complaint accusing Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove of instructing members of the Justice Department to ignore court orders that could have interfered with plans to transfer several planes of undocumented migrants to prisons in El Salvador. Bove is currently a nominee …

Donald Trump has made a lot of unconventional appointments since winning a second term in the White House. Just last night, in fact, he tapped the former Real World cast member Sean Duffy to head up the nation’s space program, in addition to his current role as transportation secretary. The …