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Article Politics 14d ago
Trump’s 2026 Playbook Is No Longer Subtle: Pressure, Punishment, and Centralized Power
The White House is leaning harder on every available lever, from federal funding threats to National Guard deployments and agency crackdowns. The result is a sharper clash with states, universities, a
Article Politics 15d ago
Trump’s New Washington: A Presidency Built for Conflict, Not Consensus
Donald Trump’s second-term project is now colliding with the limits of narrow majorities, a restive Congress, and an electorate that already senses a difficult year ahead. The result is a Washington d
Article Society/Immigration 15d ago
Mass Deportation’s Hidden Cost: Children Paying for a Policy They Never Chose
A new report says more than 100,000 children in the U.S. have had a parent detained since the administration’s deportation campaign began. The human toll is spreading far beyond immigration courts and
Article Politics/Foreign Policy 15d ago
Trump’s Iran Wobble Exposes a White House That Fires First, Explains Later
The administration’s stance on Iran is now defined less by strategy than by whiplash: threats, deadlines, and sudden pauses. That instability is reshaping alliances abroad and testing the limits of co
Article Politics/Justice 15d ago
A Billion-Dollar Justice Fund, or a Taxpayer-Funded Loyalty Program?
The Justice Department’s new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is being sold as redress for political persecution. Critics see something else entirely: a cash pool built from taxpayer dollars a
Article Society 16d ago
Trump’s New Rules on Disability Benefits Could Push Hundreds of Thousands Toward the Edge
A proposed change to Supplemental Security Income could slash or terminate benefits for an estimated 400,000 disabled adults. The policy would hit especially hard for people living with family members
Article Foreign Policy 16d ago
Trump Pulls Back From Iran Strike, Exposing a White House That Still Treats War Like a Pressure Tactic
Donald Trump says he has paused a planned strike on Iran after pressure from Gulf leaders reopened a diplomatic lane. But the episode underscores how quickly the administration is willing to move from
Article Politics 16d ago
Washington Reopens Government, But the Shutdown Politics Are Far From Over
House lawmakers have moved to reopen most of the Homeland Security Department after a record shutdown that dragged on for 76 days. The immediate crisis is easing, but the political damage inside Washi
Article Politics 17d ago
Inside Trump’s domestic power play: immigration crackdowns, guarded cities and a shrinking watchdog state
The administration’s domestic agenda is expanding from deportation to a broader assertion of federal control over cities, courts and oversight offices. What looks like policy is increasingly a test of
Article Politics 17d ago
Trump’s Iran gamble runs into a wall on Capitol Hill
The White House is pressing ahead with a war that many lawmakers never fully voted for, and Congress is showing it has little appetite to stop it. Each failed attempt to reassert oversight makes the p
Article Politics 17d ago
The shutdown ended, but Washington’s funding chaos is far from over
House lawmakers have reopened most of Homeland Security after a record-setting shutdown, but the deal exposed how broken the federal budgeting process has become. The government is running again, yet
Article Politics 18d ago
House Fails Again to Curb Trump’s Iran War Powers as Gulf Tensions Escalate
The House narrowly blocked another attempt to rein in President Trump’s military campaign against Iran, leaving lawmakers with few tools to force a vote on war powers. The stalemate deepens a constitu