President Donald Trump flew aboard the newest Air Force One on its maiden voyage Wednesday. The plane, a Boeing 747-8, was donated to the United States by the government of Qatar—a controversial gift that some allege is an attempt to buy influence with the president. Before leaving for the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential […]
The Supreme Court issued rulings Monday morning in three high-profile cases as it approaches the end of its current term, siding against the Trump administration in two of the decisions. The court ruled 5–4 in Watson v. Republican National Committee that Mississippi’s grace period for mail-in ballots postmarked by election day but received within five […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday said the Trump Administration had been targeting him as a “political enemy” through a baseless Department of Justice investigation. Newsom accused President Donald Trump of “coming after me because I am considering running for President.” Newsom said that family members, friends, and former employees had been approached in recent […]
President Donald Trump announced at a closed-door event Wednesday evening that he will be nominating acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently fill the role left by Pam Bondi since her April resignation. Blanche, who represented the president during his 2024 hush-money trial in New York, has been serving as the acting attorney general since […]
She yelled, she flailed, she taunted. She accused everyone else in the room of rampant theatrics. In the end, even the MAGA faithful on social media struggled to excuse what they had witnessed. In the defining moment of her career so far, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony in front of the House judiciary committee couldn’t […]
Politics Trump’s Attacks Never Appear to Hurt Massie The president has repeatedly attacked the libertarian Republican, but none of his blows seem to land. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump called Republican Congressman Thomas Massie a “moron.” This is not remotely new for Trump. The president has […]
Politics A Distraction From the Epstein Files? Trump has successfully shifted the Overton Window away from elite sexual exploitation toward rotating foreign vendettas. <a href=“https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/from-left-american-real-estate-developer-donald-trump-and-news-photo/1192977790” Credit: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images President Donald Trump has successfully evaded his trickiest quagmire—as quickly as the Epstein Files release came into view of the news cycle, it has essentially disappeared. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to create a national artificial intelligence policy, limiting state regulation of AI. The order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an AI Litigation Task Force within 30 days to challenge states whose AI laws don’t align with the federal policy. The White House AI and crypto […]
Last week, President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. As the administration targets foreigners suspected of narcoterrorism in an extrajudicial killing program in Latin America, Trump has freed one of the region’s most […]
Politics Trump Appointees Are ‘Harpies’? Wokeness does not seem to have stanched woman-on-woman violence. I don’t know a whole lot about Virginia Heffernan, but from what I do know, she frightens me. She’s clever, widely published and universally admired, in part because—in Louis Menand’s words—“she can refer intelligently to Barthes, Derrida, and Benjamin—also to Aquinas, […]
