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After facing an embarrassing question about why he “always chickens out,” Donald Trump got even worse news Wednesday evening when a federal court ruled that his cherished tariffs were imposed on US trading partners illegally.
Sixty-five percent of Israelis favor biblical genocide in Gaza.
As US restrictions tighten, Cuba’s efforts to protect its ecosystems are faltering — with rising deforestation, strained conservation programs, and growing pressure on protected areas.
Congressional Democrats worried about getting primaried by younger challengers actually willing to fight the Trump administration should do their party a favor and get out of the way.
Another merry medley of madness.
Let’s all hope that Donald Trump’s Memorial Day rant doesn’t get anybody killed.
Donald Trump rarely calls out Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Sunday night, he did so and warned him to stop targeting Ukrainian civilians or trying to take over the entire country.
Here we imagine the behind-the-scenes action where capos bring requests before the Don.
Ahead of Memorial Day, West Point made a peculiar choice of commencement speaker.
Amid yacht parties and red carpets, Cannes proves cinema still matters — where art fights commerce and collective dreams refuse to surrender to algorithms.
With everything going on, we might forget the individuals being impacted in the fray. Keep your sights on them. They matter the most.
With the world watching, Ukraine pays a heavy price for its misplaced trust in American guarantees.
Like an addict looking for a high, Donald Trump seems to be itching to show the world who is boss all the time. On Friday, he scratched that itch by, once again, sending stock markets into a tailspin.
When we stop thinking, we enable harm. Elizabeth Minnich warns that systemic evils don’t need monsters — “it takes all of us” through everyday compliance.
You will never have more power than you do right now.
As the federal government attacks climate programs, subnational governments are pledging to step up.
It’s a small comfort that Americans seem to finally be catching on to Trump.
For the second time this year, Donald Trump ambushed the democratically elected leader of a US ally in the Oval Office. At the same time, he only has good things to say about authoritarian rulers who give him things.
There are plenty of reasons why comparisons between MAGA and the Nazis are appropriate. However, luckily for us, Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler have much less in common.
While Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” will provide a hefty tax cut to the rich, low-income Americans and future generations will end up paying for it, the Congressional Budget Office found.
The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.
Items: Car talk, RFK bathes in sewage, and new nuttery from Trump
It’s red tape for the 90 percent accessing benefits and red ink to fund tax cuts and contracts for the 1 percent sucking down tax breaks.
Republicans are struggling to come up with a cohesive message that explains why Moody’s decided to downgrade the credit rating of the United States ahead of the passage of their “big, beautiful bill.”
Republicans would love to believe that the assassination attempts on Donald Trump were part of some grand conspiracy. FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino dashed those hopes on Sunday.
Ultimately, authoritarianism is about ruling in the absence of accountability. Now imagine what the likes of Stephen Miller or Tom Homan would do if they knew there would be no consequences for their actions. It’s a scary thought!
The Supreme Court dealt Donald Trump another stinging defeat on Friday. But the real news is that Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas seem determined to side with the administration in almost any case.
The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf states understand better than anyone else the power of a gift.
A covert alliance of wealth, faith, and fear is quietly dismantling American democracy — one lie, one spectacle, and one grievance at a time.
Facing record-breaking fires and floods, and now attacks from the Trump administration, the state is suing oil companies to make them pay for a “decades-long campaign of deception.”
Trump’s glue-eating necrophile house-elf says the administration is “actively looking” at the suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus. Americans should “actively look at” overthrowing these tyrants.
Drug overdose deaths, especially those related to fentanyl, plunged in 2024, which is something every American should keep in mind before Donald Trump tries to take credit for the successes of others.
Why does the HHS secretary appear to be doing everything he can to promote the deadly virus’s spread?
Right now, we must stand strong against the dismantling of our public libraries and independent local schools.
“They need to wake up scared and go to bed scared.”
— Alex Karp, Palantir co-founder. “They” means our enemies, whoever they are.
There were all kinds of Nazis… and each of them has an equivalent in the MAGA movement.
Trump ships American laws far away, making room for foreign gifts.
“There is no energy emergency, and Trump’s stated reasoning for it is as much a scam as every other pathetic con and hustle this president attempts,” said one consumer campaigner.
Although there was no guarantee to defend Ukraine, the deal means that any future attack against Ukraine will also be an attack against American interests.
Watching the king and his courtiers compete with each other in clownishness would be fun if it weren’t all so dangerous and deadly.
Like Charlie Brown trusting that Lucy will let him kick the football, Wall Street once again hopes that Donald Trump has come to his senses.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that more than 8 million Americans would lose their Medicaid coverage if a Republican reconciliation bill is signed into law.
Now that it is clear that Donald Trump will accept gifts/bribes from foreign leaders, governments from across the globe rushed to offer their services as well.
Probably not. And for us that’s a damned good thing.
The president of the United States is continually debasing his office by openly taking bribes from around the world.
When you really think about it, Elon Musk is a pathetic figure… and he would be worthy of our pity if he were just another lost man looking for approval in all the wrong places.
And his pattern of dodging payment and legal manipulation is instructive.