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A poster with a map captioned "Gulf of America" is seen as Donald Trump stands in the Oval Office.

Renaming Reality: Trump’s Gulf Power Play and Media’s Timid Response

News outlets revealed their editorial backbones when covering NASA astronauts’ splashdown.

Main Street in Rio Vista, California, a city in eastern Solano County where California Forever, a Silicon Valley group with plans to create a new California city, recently introduced a ballot measure asking Solano County residents to approve changes to zoning regulations that would speed the way for their proposed company town.

Trump’s “Freedom Cities” Are a Devious Scam

The president and his Silicon Valley oligarch pals want to bring back the bad old “company towns” of yesteryear with a fresh coat of modern cryptofascist varnish.

Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?

Elon Musk

Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?

Editor’s Picks

Donald Trump talks to the media in the Grand Foyer during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant

The press’s pathological need to normalize autocratic misrule is paving the road to ruin.

A Grubhub delivery worker in Times Square in New York City.

Michael Linhorst

The Delivery App Industry Has Abandoned Its Immigrant Workforce

Companies like DoorDash and Grubhub made a big show of standing by their workers in Trump’s first term. Now, with deportation threats looming, their silence is deafening.

Capitol Hill Communique

The New York State Capitol in Albany, New York

Beyond Congress: How the Blue States Can Lead the Trump Resistance

Democrats hold trifectas in 15 states with 123 million people and powerful economic engines. That’s leverage—if we use it.

A member of the crowd at a "People v. Musk Grassroots Town Hall" hosted by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin at the library in Sauk City, Wisconsin has a sign that reads "NO MUSK MONEY IN THE WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT."

The Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Is This Year’s Political Money Pit

State supreme court races are becoming increasingly nationalized, politicized, and costly. The race to control the Badger State’s high court is a sign of what’s to come.

Down by Law

Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi speak in the Oval Office.

Michael Tomasky

Trump v. Boasberg: If This Isn’t a Constitutional Crisis, What Is?

Attorney General Pam Bondi has joined the president’s campaign to get the judge impeached. This is attempted dictatorship.

Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John Roberts as he arrives to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress.

John Roberts’s Rebuke of Trump Isn’t What It Seems

Trump-Musk Scandal on Ukrainian Kids Stolen by Russia Just Got Darker

Anti-abortion protesters protest behind a barricade in front of Planned Parenthood on Mott Street in Manhattan.

The Right’s Gory Plan to Gut State Abortion Protections

Travelers at Miami airport

Felipe De La Hoz

No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry Rant Over Hegseth Text Fiasco Makes Scandal Even Worse

As Trump downplays the news that a journalist was included in a highly sensitive discussion of war plans, a top national security lawyer explains why this is so shocking—and why Trump’s response is so derelict.

The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump Blurts Out Revealing Aim of Law Firm Shakedown Right to Media

As President Trump says the quiet part out loud about his vile extortion of law firms, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky explains what all this says about Trump’s lawlessness—and what’s needed to resist it.

The Insecurity Complex

Trump in tuxedo

Trump’s Imperial Fantasy: To Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Children

The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.

An illustration of Jesus on the cross

America’s Christian Right Is Coming to the U.K.

Katherine Stewart

An illustration of Jesus on the cross

Katherine Stewart

America’s Christian Right Is Coming to the U.K.

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

olive greenspan

olive greenspan

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

Image from a computer monitor shows M, F, and X as options for "gender" on a passport application.

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

olive greenspan

Image from a computer monitor shows M, F, and X as options for "gender" on a passport application.

olive greenspan

My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.

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