Politics

When veterans came home from war — from Vietnam, from Iraq, from Afghanistan — many of us didn’t stop serving. We traded our uniforms for suits. Veterans joined the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Commerce Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and every agency flying …

Senior Trump administration officials and White House aides had for weeks bragged about how the second Trump era was markedly more disciplined and well-oiled, and less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot shambolic, than the president’s first turn in office. Several of these officials noted to Rolling Stone that this assessment was due in part …

As Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, some Trump administration officials have been privately gossiping among themselves, comparing the now-infamous national security breach in a Signal group chat to something out of the HBO political satire, Veep. These officials are getting it wrong. This ongoing mini-saga of the second Donald Trump era …

The Supreme Court has upheld the legality of Biden-era restrictions on the distribution of parts and “kits” used to assemble so-called ghost guns. In a 7-2 ruling on Wednesday, the justices rejected a bid to overturn rules allowing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to include …

MIAMI — On Friday night, former Social Security head Martin O’Malley faced some of the rage that Democratic and Republican members of Congress have been confronted with in recent weeks as the Trump administration ravages the federal government and threatens programs like Social Security. O’Malley was there to detail not …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking figures in Donald Trump’s administration recently used an unsecured Signal group chat to discuss plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. The group chat somehow included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of …

“Deliberations should be conducted through classified channels,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Tuesday. He was speaking during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee that took place just a day after The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeff Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a group chat in …

As he courted cryptocurrency investors last year, Donald Trump promised to fire Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair who had scrutinized the industry, and install a new crypto-friendly regulator in his place. Trump, who launched his own crypto meme coin days before he took office, didn’t just …

Last year, Elon Musk bought himself a president, now he’s following through on his promise to turn his billions towards down-ballot races — beginning with Wisconsin. After spending $290 million last election cycle to elect Donald Trump and Republicans, the Tesla billionaire and so-called Department of Government Efficiency chief has …

If you’ve been anywhere near Donald Trump’s social media in the past decade, you know that he is very particular about his image. Depictions of Trump — as seen in his eternally cringe NFTs, Ben Garrison cartoons, memes, and AI-generated fan slop — rarely fail to show him as anything …