GOP guardrails collapse as voters blame Trump for the cost of living
With House control slipping away and panic mounting three weeks before the midterms, Republicans are left scrambling to survive a self-inflicted storm.
By Dana Whitfield ·
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Pete Hegseth trades military legitimacy for a public spectacle
Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution reduces a judicial sentence to political theater, while Archbishop Timothy Broglio weakens the rule of law by shifting the burden onto soldiers.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Trump faces a midterm backlash as voters reject fiscal fantasy
As voters punish Trump for tariff inflation, both parties offer magical thinking instead of the divided government needed to restore institutional balance.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Donald Trump hosts AI executives at White House while risks mount
President Donald Trump hosted tech executives for a White House summit to push national AI dominance, ignoring urgent safety warnings and massive infrastructure strains.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Trump strips $810 million in public funds to defy Congress
The Trump administration weaponized a disputed budget loophole to cancel $810 million in congressionally approved funds, provoking bipartisan fury against an illegal executive theft.
By Alma Cordero ·
Massie says House GOP leaving to avoid Hegseth impeachment vote
The United States House of Representatives is currently operating less like a co-equal branch of government and more like a scheduling office for the White House.
By Tom Beckwith ·
House votes for contempt, but Leon Black is just pricing the law
The House of Representatives does not usually move with unanimous consent, but on Wednesday, September 17, 2026, it found a rare moment of total agreement.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Hegseth avoids impeachment vote with early House election recess
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a house when the adults have decided to stop pretending they are in charge.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Mike Johnson uses the calendar to hide Pete Hegseth from a vote
In the corridors of power, there is a profound difference between a strategic pause and a tactical disappearance.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Mike Johnson is racing to China while the AI monster escapes
When the people who built the bomb tell you it’s unstable, you don’t check your campaign calendar. But that is exactly what the U.S. Congress is doing right now.
By Josie Calloway ·
House Speaker Johnson says Congress shouldn't lead AI safety efforts
The American state is currently operating under the delusion that speed is a substitute for stability.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Trump is right: AI labs' plea for a slowdown is a strategic abdication
Standing on the greens of his Doonbeg resort in Ireland, President Donald Trump delivered a lesson in geopolitical arithmetic that the Silicon Valley priesthood is desperate to ignore.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Will you get Trump's $5,000 dividend check? Here's what we know
There is a particular kind of alchemy practiced in Dallas these days, where the hard mathematics of a ledger are transmuted into the shimmering promises of a campaign rally.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Mike Johnson is letting AI monsters escape for corporate profit
The CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI have finally admitted the truth: they’ve built a car with no brakes, and they’re terrified of the cliff.
By Imani Sutton ·
Trump's Trump Dividend is a trillion-dollar political mirage
President Donald Trump has a penchant for treating the U.S.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Trump's 'pretend' plea in Dallas shows a GOP hollowed out
When a political party asks its voters to engage in a collective act of imagination—to "pretend" a man is on the ballot when he is not—it is no longer running a campaign; it is managing a cult.
By Aoife Gallagher ·