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In the wake of the US attack on Venezuela, other countries are realizing that Donald Trump may not stop there. Denmark’s prime minister, for example, felt compelled to warn the president to keep his hands off Greenland.
While Donald Trump loves to use the might of the US military to feel strong, actions have consequences. And his attack on Venezuela will do nothing to make Americans safer (although it may help the oil executives who gave him all that money before the election).
It’s hard to imagine America after Trump leaves the scene, but President JD Vance would be a repellent replacement.
The United States launched large-scale overnight strikes against Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s leader, President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump announced early Saturday morning.
“While the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past.” — Jackson Browne, “Fountain of Sorrow”
Arkansas whipped prisoners until 1968. Now we celebrate El Salvador’s concentration camps. A reckoning with punishment’s price.
The country would be in a better place if more people actually did their own research instead of regurgitating what they read online from people they choose to follow. And they should start with the primary documents that show how Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election.
As the year ends, we remind ourselves why we do this — and commit to another year of leveling with you.
While the rest of the media likes to gloss over many of the crazy things Donald Trump says and does, we won’t be cowed into silence or worn down by a president who proves on a daily basis that he is unfit for office in every way.
Donald Trump on Wednesday conceded defeat over his right to dispatch the National Guard to governors who don’t want the troops in their cities.
Mamdani’s success or failure in New York City may determine the next president of the United States.
We asked conservation researchers around the world to send us their favorite papers of 2025. They address the planet’s most pressing problems — and important solutions.
Donald Trump poses an unprecedented threat to democracy, the rule of law, and the values the Founders aspired to. However, after setting the country on the fast lane toward authoritarianism right after being sworn in, the president and his goons lost some steam in the second half of the year.
Whether he’s skewering Republicans or Democrats, Jon Richards always has a sharp eye for the political hypocrisy of the moment.
Mar-a-Lago Liberty greets immigrants with the Trump administration’s new inspirational message.
Something George Washington, faced with a comparable power dynamic, understood and acted upon.
Stock up on the antacids before visiting this buffet of my spiciest columns of 2025.
This was a banner year for Trump Engagement Syndrome in the cartoon department. Here are some of our favorites.
What do Republicans have to offer Americans apart from grievances, lies, conspiracy theories, and policies eroding the social safety net to benefit the rich? The answer to that question will determine what happens after Trump.
Each week, “Saturday Hashtag” investigates and contextualizes the largely unknown systems that directly influence our lives.
Ted Rall pulls no punches. He’s a patented political pugilist, landing haymaker after haymaker, week after week. Rall’s cartoons may not float like a butterfly, but they certainly sting like a bee. Here are some of our favorites from 2025.
A year like nobody’s ever seen before.
This year, podcasts became the essential space where complexity found its voice — not just reflecting our world, but helping us understand the forces remaking it.
Donald Trump kept his string of bizarre holiday messages alive by sending a shoutout to people who, like himself, once thought that Jeffrey Epstein was a great guy and then abandoned him.
From our family to yours, we wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
A look at some of our favorite Sunday editorials. This year, they had more of a common theme than we would have preferred. Then again, Donald Trump poses a unique threat to the Constitution and the founding ideals of the United States, so calling out his lawlessness is our most important responsibility.
The Supreme Court took its time with this “emergency” case. Was it taking stock of Trump’s descent into madness?
Climate change and myriad other environmental crises were not meaningfully addressed in 2025. But WhoWhatWhy and our Covering Climate Now partners remained dedicated to bringing you news on all of it.
How much do regular Americans care about things like the GDP and the stock market as opposed to their own finances? That is one of the central questions heading into a midterm election year.
The administration’s pro-industry tilt — across three executive agencies — is feeding the MAHA movement’s growing discontent.
Donald Trump’s obsession with offshore windmills is costing Congress a chance to reach a deal on legislation that would benefit the country’s energy infrastructure.
Ginning up a case for war with Venezuela, and a few notes on miscellaneous madness.
If the Trump administration is trying to convince Americans that there is nothing to see in the Epstein files, it is doing a terrible job.
The strategy seemingly ignores active threats to the US and instead seeks to redefine what it means to be an American.
Having his toadies put his name on the Kennedy Center is far from the worst thing Donald Trump has done this year, month, or even week. But it is the most telling of where he wants to take the country.
Americans were disgusted to witness the current president’s act of stolen valor accomplished by putting his name above the name of the Kennedy Center.
The Maasai are being pushed aside for luxury safaris and carbon-credit deals that promise to save the planet, but threaten to erase a people.
In defiance of a law requiring the Trump administration to release all its Epstein files, DOJ has held back hundreds of thousands of documents while promising to make them available at a later date.
“We don’t really listen to what Trump, Macron, or Zelenskyy say anymore. We focus on our work,” one soldier said.
The networks may be cowards, but Wednesday night they did us all a big favor.
This year, podcasts became the essential space where complexity found its voice — not just reflecting our world, but helping us understand the forces remaking it.
Donald Trump gave Democrats an early Christmas gift on Wednesday night by promising Americans an economic boom that is unlikely to materialize.
Generative AI isn’t inevitable, and people are already fighting hard to keep power-hungry data centers out of their communities.
The neurological, psychological, and political breakdown of the American president — and the people taking full advantage of it.
University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig challenges nearly everything we think we know about gun violence — and, by extension — violence itself.
Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a blockade of “sanctioned oil tankers” coming from and going to Venezuela.
Instead of trying to make things more affordable, the Trump administration is lying about who is responsible for the state of the economy. Today, it was Vice President JD Vance’s turn to gaslight the American people.