From Press Passes to Punchlines, the Pattern Behind Trump’s War on the Media On Monday, the president of the United States stood on the South Lawn to open a new helipad, and almost nobody could hear him. The television…
Who Is Trump’s Voter Fraud Crackdown Really Meant to Scare? The federal agents who usually chase smugglers, traffickers and people who sexually exploit children have a new assignment this fall — combing through voter rolls. According to Axios, Homeland…
The Supreme Court Case That Could Quietly Reshape Our Voter Rolls Our names, birth dates, home addresses and the last digits of our Social Security numbers are the dullest facts about us. For more than a year, the Justice…
You Don’t Buy Diesel. You Pay for It Anyway. A head of lettuce pulled up to a gas pump… That sentence could be the start of a very bad joke, or more accurately, be a window into what is…
If Water Is Running Low, Why Are We Relaxing the Rules on What Is in It? In San Juan, Puerto Rico this summer, people spent hours in line waiting for water trucks. Puerto Rico’s governor declared an emergency in…
Prices Are Up and Now Rates Are Too. Who Pays for the Cure? Twelve people voted, without a single dissent, to make borrowing cost more for the rest of us. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by…
What the Pentagon’s Space Weapons Admission Means for the Satellites We Rely On Every Day At a function in a hotel ballroom in National Harbor, Maryland, on Monday afternoon, a single sentence changed how the rest of us should…
The Supreme Court Kept Mail Voting Intact for 2026. It Could be Another Story in 2028 Somewhere in North Carolina, a ballot that went into the mail on Sept. 4 is sitting on a kitchen table, and as of…
Insured or Not, the Bill for American Health Care Is Landing on All of Us Sometime in the next eight weeks, we all can expect either a benefits email from HR, a notice from healthcare.gov, or a Medicare handbook,…
Are We Safer Than We Were on Sept. 11? Depends Which Threat You Mean Iran’s foreign minister sent our acting Navy secretary a thank you note this morning. Not a sincere one. Abbas Araghchi posted on X (https://x.com/araghchi/status/2098271377241379111) that…
From 1790 to 2030, the Census Counted Everyone. Trump Administrations Wants to Change That The Commerce Department would like to know where each of us sleeps, and it plans to check our tax returns to be sure. That is…
Why Should We Care About the Yen? Ask Your Mortgage Lender Tuesday evening, on a stage at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the man in charge of the United States Treasury told a room of investors that he is…
Canada Just Hit Back, and We’re the Ones Who Pay Did you know that a truckload of American washing machines that reached the Canadian border at 12:01 this morning was suddenly carrying a 25 percent tax it didn’t have…
Hidden Tribunals and Record Arrests Are the Same Story A woman in Maryland nearly lost her chance to stay in this country because a letter never came. Her immigration hearing had been set for October in Hyattsville. Then, with…
Don’t Drive a Diesel? We’re Still Paying for It Most of us will never pump a single gallon of diesel in our lives. Yet, every one of us is about to pay for it anyway. Diesel hit a record…
The IRS Cuts Were Supposed to Save Money. They Lost It, and The Wealthy Just Got a Free Pass Somebody at the Treasury Department finally did the math on last year’s IRS layoffs, and the answer came back upside…
Who Decided the Post Office Should Be a Gatekeeper for Our Votes? A tray of 10,000 mail ballots arrives at a postal facility. A worker scans a sample of roughly 400. If one barcode fails to read, the entire…
The Generation That Doubts America’s Future Loving your country has become a more complicated feeling for the young people who are supposed to inherit it. A new Sine Institute survey conducted in late July by American University researchers found…
Trump Touts Major Venezuela Oil Pact as Energy Experts Warn of Years-Long Delays Gas prices at the pump tell a story that politicians hope voters never read all the way to the end. On Friday, President Trump announced a…
The Federal Reserve’s Kevin Warsh Faces His First Real Test at Jackson Hole as Inflation Sticks and Markets Waver Around 10 in the morning Eastern time today, at a lodge beneath the Teton mountains in Wyoming, a man most…
ICE Traded Raids for Traffic Stops. Arrests Hit a Record Anyway This administration did it again. It snuck something past us that they hoped we wouldn’t notice. They did this by not showcasing National Guard convoys rolling into a…
The Mail Voting Order Rests on Numbers the DHS Won’t Defend Somewhere in a county warehouse in California, stacks of ballot envelopes are sitting on pallets, printed weeks ago, waiting to be stuffed and mailed. Jesse Salinas, the registrar…
Who Does the Justice Department Work For When a CEO Gets an Oval Office Meeting? Remember the last time you bought concert tickets? You beat the queue, you grabbed two seats before they vanished, and you felt like you…
Today’s Iran Sanctions Could Reshape Gas Prices, the China Relationship, and the War Itself The next time we fill our gas tanks, we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the final price. That number is not just…
The Number That Sets Your Mortgage Just Hit a 19-Year High Something unusual happened this week, and it deserves more of our attention than it’s getting. The United States government looked at the price of its own debt, got…
