Trump blames aides as internal warfare roils the White House
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 ·
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Judge Reyes checks executive overreach at East Potomac Golf Links
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 ·
Trump chooses Katie Zacharia for a role she cannot sustain
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 ·
Trump strangles NOAA science as a super El Niño bears down
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 ·
Trump Administration uses signs to purge the Smithsonian
There is a particular kind of administrative clumsiness that reveals a deeper, more systemic pathology.
By Klaus Berger ·
Trump funds the hammer to subsidize Netanyahu's massacre
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 ·
U.S. Supreme Court stops Denny Hoskins from cheating the law
In governance, as in fixed-income trading, the most dangerous actor is the one who believes the rules are merely suggestions.
By Klaus Berger ·
Trump administration uses the census to erase the marginalized
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 ·
Washington treats people as cargo dumped to Central African Republic
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 ·
Washington's century lease for Venezuela oil is an imperial decree
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 ·
Tommy Pigott revokes visas; the process is state-sanctioned exclusion
The procedure by which power operates—that is where one must look when assessing American law.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Trump administration proposes more than $100K fee for H-1B visas
The proposal is breathtaking in its sheer audacity.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
US treats international law as commodity for CAR deportees
The American government has mistaken enforcement for policy.
By Klaus Berger ·
United States manages populations in Liberia as sovereignty commodity
The first group of deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia on Thursday.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Brooke Rollins’ rule repeal is a sleight of hand for profit
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 ·
Big Bend border wall construction paused by Trump administration
The suspension of border construction in Big Bend National Park by the Trump administration is not a victory for national security, but an operational hiccup—a moment where…
By Nikhil Raghavan ·