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Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini stands with his hands on his hips as he stares defiantly into the middle distance.

Alexander Stille

Which Past Fascist Does Trump Most Resemble? The Incompetent One.

Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well.

Chief Justice John Roberts attends President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress.

The Supreme Court Could Take Another Shot at Voting Rights

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era jurisprudence to set a course for the country’s future.

Melissa Gira Grant

The Trump Team Knows Its Case Against Abrego Garcia Is Thin

Karoline Leavitt points as hands are raised in front of her.

Melissa Gira Grant

The Trump Team Knows Its Case Against Abrego Garcia Is Thin

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A photo of the bodies of American Nuns Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel, and Ita Ford, along with lay missioner Jean Donovan

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now.

Inmates sit stacked on bunk beds in a massive jail cell.

Two Good Reasons Democrats Should Fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Some liberal pundits and politicians seem to think talking about immigration is a trap. They couldn’t be more wrong.

Capitol Hill Communique

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune

How Trump’s War on the IRS Impacts the GOP’s Debt Ceiling Fight

The agency is being gutted at the same time that its revenue will determine how much longer the government can operate before defaulting on its debt.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Trump’s Tariff Madness Is About One Thing: His Thirst for One-Man Rule

The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing.

Down by Law

Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts at the 60th presidential inauguration

Michael Tomasky

Hello, John Roberts. America’s D-Day is Coming. Whatcha Gonna Do?

From Kilmar Abrego Garcia to birthright citizenship and more, the moment of truth is arriving for the chief justice. Trump, or the republic?

Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele

On Abrego Garcia, Trump Is Lying on the Facts and Wrong on the Law

Trump greets John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, during a joint session of Congress

Trump’s Tariffs Could Put the Supreme Court in a Major Bind

Judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican who lost his bid last year for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, listens to testimony

Republicans Are Trying to Steal a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat

Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House.

Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

“Full-Blown Meltdown”: Don Jr. and MAGA Rage as GOPers Turn on Hegseth

As the scandals around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth grow and GOP knives come out for him, a sharp observer of the national security bureaucracy explains why President Trump is caught in a brutal bind.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Ugly New Eruptions Over Abrego Garcia Wreck His Own Arguments

As Trump accidentally exposes the weakness of his own case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an expert on MS-13 takes us inside what this gang really is—and why tying this man to the group is implausible.

The Insecurity Complex

Trump squinting

Weirdly Enough, Donald Trump May Actually Want a Deal with Iran

It would be for all the wrong reasons: to appease Putin, and to make a buck. But incredibly, a deal just might happen.

Illustration of the colors of the Israeli and Palestinian flags merging, symboling the proposed path forward for Middle East peace

The Best “New” Idea for Middle East Peace? It’s 25 Years Old.

Trump’s Mar-a-Gaza idea is nonsense. Hamas is unacceptable. Netanyahu repudiates everything but war. A better path forward still exists—and it was charted a quarter-century ago.

Volodymyr heads toward the field where he will launch the Darts drone.

Inside the Lives of Ukraine’s Tired, Determined Drone Pilots

Volodymyr heads toward the field where he will launch the Darts drone.

Inside the Lives of Ukraine’s Tired, Determined Drone Pilots

Palestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.

Palestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testified during a Senate committee hearing last week

Palestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testified during a Senate committee hearing last week

Palestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.