Trump lost his birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court and his response was to demand a do-over from the same nine people who just told him no. "I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United…
mcconnell, trump, politics A sitting senator vanishes into a hospital room, and the entire Republican establishment responds with the same thing it always does: total silence. "No, I have no. I have n…
rahmemanuel, israel, gaza, democracy, polling A former White House chief of staff goes to Israel to tell its leaders the American public has abandoned them. "For too long, American policy toward Israe…
The president in charge of the nuclear codes confused an active adversary with America's oldest Asian ally, then called the Ukrainian leader sitting next to him by his enemy's name. "I told this story…
The federal government raids a home with flash bangs, then offers the person it terrorized $200,000 to betray her neighbors. "We know that you're struggling financially. We know that the people you ho…
ICE Tracks You to Your Hotel for Criticizing It An American man sends an angry email to the head of ICE, and five months later federal agents find his hotel room. "Like any American, [ICE's response] …
A country at war with another country is quietly feeding its enemy the names of people who fled it. "Congress made these confidentiality protections mandatory precisely because lives depend on them, a…
The president says that restoring basic democratic protections would annihilate his own political party. "They do this, and the Republican Party is DEAD!" — Donald Trump, on a resolution to restore vo…
The president of the United States made a phone call. A player's red card vanished. The entire world watched, and nobody knew what to do about it. "Red cards are not overturned by political phone call…