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EXPLAINER: TPS Haiti and Syria — Noem's Lie That Justice Just Unearthed
There are moments in the life of a democracy when the administration supposed to enforce the law finds itself in the dock
FACT-CHECK: "The Court Will Back Me" — the Tariff Setback That Shattered the Trump Illusion
For months, Donald Trump cultivated a public conviction: his Supreme Court, composed in majority of justices he had himself appointed, would serve
EDITORIAL: Firing Power — The Dream of an Executive Without Counterweights
There was a time when Donald Trump fired his candidates on a reality television show, in the carefully orchestrated staging of The
REPORT: Rebecca Slaughter and the FTC — the 91-Year Precedent Trump Wants to Demolish
On March 18, 2025, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the Democratic commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), learned she had been fired. Not
INVESTIGATION: Lisa Cook, $1.3 Million in Fees — The Price of a Battle for Fed Independence
More than $1.3 million. That is the total — legal and security costs combined — that Lisa D. Cook, a governor of
EXPLAINER: Trump v. Barbara — When a Presidential Decree Defied 160 Years of Birthright Law
On January 20, 2025, within his first hour in the Oval Office, Donald Trump signed Executive Order No. 14160, titled Protecting the
ANALYSIS: Birthright Citizenship — The Supreme Court Is About to Rebuke Trump
On January 20, 2025, barely his hands off the Bible, Donald Trump signed Executive Order No. 14,160, titled "Protecting the Meaning and
EXPLAINER: November 2026, the Verdict — When the Midterms Will Decide Trump's Fate
There are moments in American political life when everything converges on a single date, a single deadline, a single collective verdict. November
TESTIMONY: One Million Signatures — When the Streets Demand the President's Removal
There are moments when the counter on an online petition stops being an abstract statistic and becomes the heartbeat of a people.