Politics

Why Trump is obsessed with exacting ‘retribution’ against E Jean Carroll

For a person ‘accustomed to things going his way’, president’s defeats in trials against the author are a direct hit to his ego

The Trump administration is trying to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests

The bipartisan Roadless Rule is under fire. It’s just one way Trump could make our public lands unrecognizable

How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder

Details about what happened, the rightwing response – and accusations by some of ‘two-tier policing’

Homan denies substandard conditions at N.J. ICE detention center, says he ate there: "The spaghetti was good"

White House border czar Tom Homan defended the conditions and services at a federal immigration detention facility in New Jersey that has been at the center of protests for over a week, calling allegations of substandard conditions there "not factual."

‘We call it the P-word’: Chicago professor suspended after assignment mentions Palestinians

School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor put under investigation after a student complained about a case study

Mamdani’s consumer watchdog takes on ‘epidemic of corporate lawbreaking’

New York City’s new commissioner of consumer and worker protection is launching an “aggressive” campaign to fight junk fees and deceptive practices

'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees say guards deny them food and clean water until they sign English documents

Detainees say they’re given ‘rotten’ water and denied meals for not signing papers in English that they don’t understand

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS Is doing to CBS

My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out

The Vicious Beating That Reshaped America

Two books about the 1856 caning of a senator show how words can incite violence—and also help defeat it.

Tim Walz is the model for anti-Talarico campaign

Democrats got the Texas Senate race they wanted with James Talarico facing Attorney General Ken Paxton, but Republicans want to remind them of the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”

Henry Nowak and fatal anti-racism

Our psychosis about racism after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman in 2020 has led to the reciprocal murder of a clean-cut young white man 4,000 miles away in England.

Ballroom, bunker, or boondoggle? What exactly is Trump building on the White House grounds?

On a warm, sunny Tuesday in May, President Donald Trump invited White House reporters to tour the work site of the crown jewel in his one-man effort to transform the nation’s capital to fit his vision of architectural beauty. Known in planning documents as the White House State Ballroom. But in donor pledge agreements, as “The Donald J. Trump Ballroom at the White House.”