Picture a metal box, roughly four feet by four feet — sixteen square feet of Florida heat, open to the sun, the insects, and the thick Everglades air. Now picture a human being locked inside it. That is what the…
Johnson Makes Re-election Bid Official Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) confirmed Sunday that he will seek a second term leading the nation’s third-largest city, telling the New York Times in an interview at his downtown campaign office that he intends…
What the Lawsuit Claims — and What It Actually Targets The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit Thursday against Utah, Arkansas, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C., challenging state laws that allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public universities. The…
A Leon County grand jury investigating the diversion of $10 million in taxpayer funds through the Hope Florida Foundation has closed its inquiry without criminal charges — and without, critics say, doing nearly enough to find out who was responsible.…
The heat outside the American Airlines Center in Dallas topped one hundred degrees, but the faithful came anyway — streaming through the doors in oversized MAGA hats, Trump sneakers that retail for four hundred dollars, and baseball jerseys bearing the…
A Purge Dressed Up as a Principle The word “meritocracy” is doing a lot of work right now — and almost none of it honestly. Under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon has adopted the language of colorblindness as a…
What just happened in New Hampshire? Former Republican Senator John Sununu has won his party’s primary in New Hampshire, positioning himself as the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring three-term Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen. He…
California’s high-speed rail project has become one of the most expensive and embattled infrastructure undertakings in American history — a bullet train to nowhere, critics say, that has ballooned in cost and missed deadline after deadline for more than a…
Todd Blanche sat across from Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday and said, plainly, what many had feared: he will not promise to keep the Justice Department independent of the White House. Not hedged. Not buried in…
The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that California’s prison system systematically failed to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse and harassment by correctional staff — a finding that exposes not merely individual misconduct, but a structural collapse of the…