Calley Means quit as senior adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the administration favored the pesticide industry, proving that corporate profit still outweighs public health.
By Josie Calloway ·
Donald Trump blames aides for dim midterm prospects, but staff turnover and internal warfare prove the disorder begins with his own volatile governance.
By Daniel Okafor ·
By felling trees at East Potomac Golf Links to outrun a court order, the Trump administration invited a sharp judicial rebuke that rightly defends the separation of powers.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Donald Trump offers Katie Zacharia the press secretary post, choosing media loyalty over the professional durability required to handle the demands of Washington.
By Daniel Okafor ·
As a super El Niño threatens coastal communities with flooding, the Trump administration slashes thousands of staff and guts the agency meant to warn us.
By Sophie Naimi ·
There is a particular kind of administrative clumsiness that reveals a deeper, more systemic pathology.
By Klaus Berger ·
There is a particular kind of arrogance that only the world’s sole superpower can afford: the belief that a rule is a suggestion when it suits the powerful, and a cage when it applies to the small.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
In governance, as in fixed-income trading, the most dangerous actor is the one who believes the rules are merely suggestions.
By Klaus Berger ·
Counting people is not a neutral act of bookkeeping; it is an act of recognition. When a state decides who exists and who is invisible, it is not practicing "administration"—it is practicing power.
By Sophie Naimi ·
There are times when the sheer banality of a policy decision—the kind that sounds less like governance and more like logistical accounting—is what makes it most profoundly disturbing.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The moment Washington begins to talk about “stakes” in another sovereign nation’s oil fields, you know what it means: they are not talking about energy security; they are talking about ownership.
By Alma Cordero ·
The procedure by which power operates—that is where one must look when assessing American law.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The proposal is breathtaking in its sheer audacity.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The American government has mistaken enforcement for policy.
By Klaus Berger ·
The first group of deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia on Thursday.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The Department of Agriculture is proposing to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule—a rule that has protected nearly 45 million acres of national forest land for decades.
By Grant Colby ·