In a 6-3 decision last week, the Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump direct control over almost all nominally independent federal agencies. The ruling in Trump v. Slaughter struck down a ...

Shortly after taking office in January 2025, President Donald Trump elevated Emil Bove, a member of his small army of criminal defense attorneys, to a high-profile position at the Department of ...

A familiar American story has unfolded over the past few days: A famously corrupt judicial body made an unprecedented decision on Sunday, granting an emergency request by President Donald Trump to set ...

As the calendar turns to July, the question looming over President Donald Trump’s judicial agenda is not whether Republicans have the votes to confirm his remaining nominees—they do, with some to ...

On Tuesday morning, the United States Supreme Court came exactly one vote away from holding that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mean what it says—that “all persons born or naturalized in the United ...

This week’s joint address to Congress allowed President Donald Trump to do two of his favorite things: regurgitate racist tropes about immigrants on TV, and then work the red carpet afterwards, ...

A razor-thin majority of the Supreme Court confirmed today that the Fourteenth Amendment means what it says: “All persons” born in the United States and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” are ...

The Supreme Court struck down (another) longstanding federal campaign finance law on Tuesday, in a decision that (again) shrinks the ability of Congress to guard against corruption in the political ...

In one of its final decisions of the 2025-26 term on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along the usual lines that states may legally ban trans girls from playing on women’s sports teams. Nothing ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...

When President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4 percent overall, and at 5.3 percent for Black workers. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

After a disastrous showing in the November 2025 elections and under pressure from President Donald Trump, many Republican-controlled legislatures are looking to (further) gerrymander their states ...