What is happening, and why does it matter right now? The Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into a sprawling network of scammers who prey on immigrants caught up in the United States’ increasingly punishing immigration system. Complaints…
A Senator’s Ultimatum and What It Reveals About the Democratic Party’s Fault Lines Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has issued a pointed ultimatum: if the Democratic Party formally becomes what he calls “the anti-Israel party,” he will walk. The declaration, made…
A striking new survey from The Wall Street Journal and NORC Research Center has landed with the weight of a verdict: most Americans believe capitalism is not working, democracy is faltering, and the wealthy have seized a level of power…
What happened, and why is this ex-girlfriend speaking out? Graham Platner, a Maine Democrat who had been running for the U.S. Senate, suspended his campaign after multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Now, Emily Suttle-Braun…
What just happened in Maryland? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a seven-page letter to Maryland’s state Elections Administrator, Jared DeMarinis, threatening him with criminal charges including criminal conspiracy and civil rights violations. The letter, signed by Harmeet…
What actually happened on July 4th in Washington? Hundreds of masked members of Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization, marched through the nation’s capital on Independence Day. They moved in formation to the beat of drummers near the U.S. Capitol…
The Age Problem Republicans Can No Longer Ignore Donald Trump is 80 years old, the oldest person ever inaugurated as president, and a growing share of his own party thinks that matters. New polling from Daily Mail/JL Partners finds that…
The Democratic Party’s internal tensions have broken into open view, with Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington publicly rebuking colleagues who have greeted the party’s growing socialist wing with condescension rather than curiosity. Speaking to CNN, Jayapal described the treatment of…
The Supreme Court’s two Black justices stared across an ideological chasm on Tuesday — and one of them blinked first in putting her disagreement on the record. In a 20-page concurring opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not merely join…
The Supreme Court handed down the final opinions of its 2025–2026 term on Tuesday, June 30, resolving four remaining cases out of 58 argued this term — decisions carrying profound consequences for the boundaries of executive authority, the constitutional guarantee…