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China Did Not Fight in the Iran War. It May Have Won It Anyway.
The CFR and Times of India both say the same thing: Beijing watched the US burn through stockpiles, studied its weaknesses, and walked into the Trump summit holding a much stronger Taiwan hand than it had before the war started.
The Ceasefire Is Already Dead, It Just Has Not Fallen Over Yet
Trump called Iran's peace proposal 'garbage,' Hormuz shipping is at 5% of normal, and both sides are now managing a controlled freeze rather than moving toward resolution.
The Senate Has Voted Seven Times to End the Iran War and Lost Every Time. That Is Now the Point.
Murkowski flipped, the vote failed 50-49, and Democrats are not trying to stop the war anymore -- they are trying to force Republicans to own it before November.
Trump Wants to Suspend the Gas Tax. The Industry That Runs on Gas Does Not.
Gas is up 50% since the Iran war started. An 18-cent relief would cost the highway fund $30 billion and the trucking lobby is already fighting it.
Trump's Tariff Playbook Has One Move Left and It Also Got Struck Down
The Section 122 tariffs are the third legal theory Trump has tried to impose global duties -- and courts keep stopping each one while letting him keep collecting until further notice.
Trump Flies to Beijing Saying He Does Not Need Xi's Help -- Which Is How You Ask for Help
The US needs China to pressure Iran. China knows this. Markets put a 16% chance China actually joins Iran negotiations -- and an 88% chance it buys Boeing planes instead.
Fund ICE for Three Years. Also Build the Ballroom.
Senate Republicans returned from recess to pass a $72 billion immigration enforcement package. Trump wants $1 billion in the same bill for White House ballroom security. Vulnerable Republicans have to vote on both.
The Ceasefire That Isn't
Trump called Iran's peace proposal garbage. Iran called the US terms surrender. Brent crude hit $104. Nobody's blinking.
The Court Said the Tariffs Are Illegal. Importers Are Still Paying Them.
A federal trade court ruled Trump's 10% global surcharge unlawful. The same day, it agreed to let the government keep collecting while it appeals. 170,000 companies are funding a tariff the court just declared invalid.
Trump Pulls 5,000 Troops from Germany. NATO's Eastern Flank Is Now Improvising.
Germany's 'Sparta 2.0' plan admits Europe cannot run a war without US software approval. Poland is competing for the troops like a trophy. The Baltics are watching both of them.
Trump Names His Own Justices in Public, Warns the Birthright Ruling Will Follow
Gorsuch and Barrett voted wrong on tariffs. Now they face the birthright case. Trump is not asking for loyalty. He is documenting a grievance.
The Summit Without a Spine
Trump flies to Beijing Tuesday. Both sides want stability. Neither side can say what they actually need from the other.
Three Days of Quiet, Then Drones on Kyiv
Trump's 72-hour Ukraine ceasefire expired at midnight. Russia struck residential buildings in Kyiv by 3:35 AM.
Trump Flies to Beijing Thinking He Has Leverage. China Disagrees.
China's rare earths card turned the October trade truce into a template Beijing plans to repeat. The May 14 summit will reveal who actually blinks.
Trump Sanctioned China's Oil Supply Chain to Gain Leverage Before the Summit. China Already Priced It In.
Washington's April 24 sanctions targeting Hengli Petrochemical and 40 shipping entities were supposed to be summit leverage. A CounterPunch analysis argues they were actually America's last chip, spent.
The Courts Have Now Killed Two Different Tariff Regimes. Trump Keeps Building New Ones.
The first $166B in IEEPA refunds arrive today. Last week a trade court struck down the 10% replacement tariff. The administration's legal theory for unilateral trade authority is running out of runways.
Trump Tells His Own Justices to Be 'Loyal.' The Court Hears It.
After SCOTUS killed his tariffs and is expected to kill his birthright citizenship order, Trump called out Gorsuch and Barrett by name. The court's independence question just got harder.
Trump Made the Post Office a Gatekeeper for Who Can Vote by Mail. USPS Is Losing $2 Billion a Quarter.
The March 31 executive order gives USPS the power to flag or reject mail ballots tied to people not on DHS-curated voter rolls. Courts are watching. So is USPS's board, which needs Trump's help to stay solvent.
Powell's Last Days
The Fed chair's departure is essentially priced in at 95%. What comes next is the part that matters.
Putin Says the War Is Ending. He Means Something Different by That.
A three-day ceasefire, North Korean troops on Red Square, and Putin telling reporters the matter is 'coming to an end' — none of this means what it sounds like.
The Administration Has Defied Courts 31 Times. Nobody Has Stopped It.
A new review finds the Trump administration has violated federal court orders at least 31 times. The question is no longer whether the rule of law is being broken. It is whether anyone with the power to enforce it will.
The Trump-Xi Summit Is About Iran. China Wants It That Way.
The US-China summit next week was supposed to be about tariffs and rare earths. Iran has displaced both topics. That displacement is not accidental — it is the best outcome China could have engineered.
The Summit That Has to Look Like Nothing
Trump and Xi have more to gain from a deal than from a standoff. The problem is neither can afford to say so.
The FCC vs. The View, and the Broadcast License as a Weapon
The Trump FCC is using a 1934 equal-time rule to investigate a talk show, threatening licenses and rewriting 20-year-old precedents. ABC is fighting back. The stakes are whether the government can police broadcast content through regulatory intimidation.
China's Exports Hit a Monthly Record While Trump Is Flying to Beijing to Demand Concessions
China's April export surge was driven partly by buyers front-loading against Iran war supply disruptions. It also gives Xi Jinping a stronger hand at next week's summit than any tariff threat could have produced.
The EPA Deregulated 180 Polluters Via Email. It Called This the Biggest Deregulatory Action in US History.
ProPublica revealed that the Trump EPA granted two-year Clean Air Act exemptions to over 180 major industrial facilities through a simple email request system. The agency's own air quality scientists were sidelined.
One Year After Operation Sindoor, Pakistan's Army Chief Is Having Lunch at the White House
India launched precision strikes on Pakistan a year ago and claims strategic victory. But the country it was trying to isolate is now being embraced by the same mediator who stopped the war.
Trump's Three-Day Ceasefire Is a Victory Photo, Not a Peace Deal
Russia and Ukraine just agreed to stop shooting for 72 hours so Putin can celebrate Victory Day in peace. Polymarket says a durable ceasefire is 25% likely by year-end. Both sides know why.
Saudi Arabia Shut Down Project Freedom. Then Reopened the Bases. Neither Act Was What It Looked Like.
Riyadh blocked US forces from using Prince Sultan Air Base for the Hormuz operation, forcing Trump to pause it after 36 hours. The bases reopened days later. What Saudi Arabia demonstrated is that it can veto American military operations from within the alliance.
The Second Time a Court Killed Trump's Tariffs
The Court of International Trade struck down Trump's replacement 10% global tariffs. He appealed within 24 hours. The question is no longer whether courts will stop him, but whether it matters.
Trump Installed a Fed Chair Who Wants to Cut Rates. The Economy Will Not Let Him.
Kevin Warsh arrives at the Federal Reserve next week having promised rate cuts. Inflation is at 3.3%, the April jobs report beat forecasts by nearly double, and Paul Tudor Jones says there is no chance Warsh can deliver. Someone is going to be wrong about this.
Judge Calls DOGE's NEH Grant Cuts 'Blatant.' Trump Will Ignore Her.
A federal judge ruled 1,400 humanities grants were canceled unconstitutionally by DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT and DEI keywords to slash $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds. The ruling will almost certainly not stick.
Europe Is Taking Over NATO. Washington Hasn't Noticed It's Losing the Alliance.
The Iran war forced Trump to fight alone, and in doing so he handed European capitals the leverage they needed to rewrite the alliance's power structure from the inside.
Taiwan Passed Its Defense Bill. The Opposition Cut It by 40 Percent.
The KMT and TPP forced through NT$780 billion instead of the NT$1.25 trillion the government requested, days before Trump meets Xi in Beijing.
Trump Wants to Regulate AI Now. The Industry It Threatened Is Thanking Him.
The White House is drafting an executive order to vet AI models before release. The companies that would bear the cost helped design the system.
Tariffs Ruled Unlawful, Again. It Still Won't Matter.
A federal trade court struck down Trump's 10% global tariffs, but the ruling only protects two importers and one state.
Trump Flies to Beijing With Iran in the Room
The Trump-Xi summit next week is nominally about trade and rare earths. Iran has turned it into a negotiation about who controls the ceasefire.
Three Days to Prove Peace Is Possible. Both Sides Have Agreed. That's the Problem.
Trump announced a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire today that both sides confirmed. A 72-hour window starting Victory Day is either the beginning of a deal or the staging ground for a better-positioned restart.
Trump Killed Biden's AI Safety Framework. Then He Built the Same Thing and Called It Something Else.
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation just signed testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. It is functionally identical to the AI Safety Institute that Trump disbanded. The question is why it took a near-miss called Mythos to change his mind.
Trump Threatens More Bombs While Claiming Peace Progress on Iran
Sixty-eight days into a US war with Iran, both sides are inching toward a one-page memorandum while the president simultaneously threatens to escalate.
Trump Just Picked a Surgeon General Who Deleted Tweets Criticizing Him and RFK Jr.
The MAHA-MAGA split inside the administration is now visible in public: Trump replaced his MAHA-aligned surgeon general nominee with a Fox News doctor who spent years attacking Kennedy's health agenda, then deleted the evidence.
Trump Wants the Filibuster Dead. His Own Senate Won't Do It.
The SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate not because of Democrats but because Republican senators refuse to eliminate the filibuster to pass it. Trump is furious. Thune is unmoved.
Trump's AI Team Is Rebuilding Everything It Burned Down
After dismantling Biden's AI safety framework, the White House is now building a near-identical system with a different label and a political score to settle.
Trump Goes to Beijing. China Holds the Iran Card.
The first US presidential visit to China in eight years arrives after two months of war in Iran, with Beijing in a position it has rarely occupied: indispensable to both sides.
SCOTUS Will Strike Down Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order. The Real Question Is What It Lets Happen First.
Polymarket gives 87% odds the Court kills the executive order. But SCOTUS already ruled states can enforce it partially. A ruling that arrives in June matters less than what happens between now and June.
The EU Made a Deal with Trump. Trump Is Now Threatening to Break It Over Greenland.
Brussels struck a July 2025 agreement setting tariffs at 15%. Trump threatened 25% on cars last week. The EU is asking Washington to honor the deal it signed nine months ago. Washington is not answering.
Trump Launched Project Freedom. Then Stopped It After One Day.
The Hormuz pause is not a concession to Iran. It is a test of whether Pakistan can deliver a deal before Iran's economy forces one.
Liberation Day Is One Year Old. Moody's Says It Did 'Significant Damage.' Courts Are About to Force Refunds.
Job growth stalled. Inflation stayed above target. The IEEPA tariffs were ruled illegal. Polymarket gives 81.5% odds the courts force refunds by June. The White House calls it a success.
900 Health Facilities Are At Risk of Closing. States Are Trying to Fill a Hole They Cannot Fill.
The One Big Beautiful Bill cut $911 billion from Medicaid over ten years. The rural health fund it created to compensate is $50 billion over five years. The math does not balance.
Trump Officially Moved Terrorism's Address from the Middle East to Mexico City.
The new counterterrorism strategy makes Western Hemisphere cartels the top priority and jihadists second. That is not rhetoric. It is a reallocation of the entire U.S. counterterrorism apparatus.
The Bond Market Thinks Warsh Will Hike Before He Cuts
Trump wants cheaper money. His Fed pick may deliver the opposite. And neither man is fully wrong.
Trump Is Coming for European Cars Again
The USTR confirmed 25% tariffs on EU autos are moving forward. Europe's car industry was already struggling. This time, the trigger is geopolitical, not just protectionist.
CO2 Hits a New Record. The Observatory That Measures It Might Be Shut Down.
NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory recorded the highest atmospheric CO2 concentration in human history in April 2026. The Trump administration's proposed FY2027 budget would eliminate $1.6 billion from NOAA, potentially closing the 70-year monitoring record.
The White House That Killed AI Regulation Is Now Considering It
Trump reversed Biden's AI executive order to free companies from oversight. Now, after Anthropic's Mythos model scared enough officials, the White House is weighing mandatory pre-release vetting. Polymarket puts it at 28% by month-end.
Trump Is Going to Beijing. China Is Already Pricing the Trip.
Trump confirmed a mid-May summit with Xi in Beijing. China rolled out new trade rules that undercut US supply chain policy hours later. Iran is the card China is holding. Taiwan is the price.
China Just Ordered Its Companies to Ignore US Sanctions. The Banks Are Next.
Beijing used its blocking law for the first time, telling domestic oil refiners not to comply with Treasury sanctions. The move puts Chinese banks in an impossible position ten days before Trump arrives in Beijing.
Hamas Will Not Disarm Until Israel Withdraws. Israel Will Not Withdraw Until Hamas Disarms. The Ceasefire Is Expiring.
Talks in Cairo hit a deadlock on the sequencing question that the October deal deliberately left unresolved. The Board of Peace has 281 days to solve something the negotiators could not.
The Tariffs Are Gone. The $166 Billion Refund Has Arrived. The Trade War Has Not Ended.
SCOTUS killed IEEPA tariffs in February. Trump is replacing them with Section 301 hearings starting this week. The destination is the same. Only the route changed.
Connecticut Signed a Law Against ICE. The House Judiciary Committee Subpoenaed Arlington. States Are Drawing Lines.
The federal-state immigration standoff is past the rhetoric stage. Connecticut now has a law. Arlington has a subpoena. The legal question underneath all of it has not been answered.
Trump Has Defied 31 Court Orders. The Courts Have Not Stopped Him.
An AP review found an extraordinary pattern of non-compliance with lower court rulings. The more interesting question is why the enforcement mechanism has not worked.
Trump Broke the EU Car Deal He Made at His Own Golf Course. The Reason He Gave Does Not Hold.
The Turnberry deal lowered EU auto tariffs to 15% last July. Trump raised them back to 25% without citing a specific EU violation. The EU's trade chief meets his US counterpart in Paris tomorrow.
Trump Is Purging Voter Rolls Inside the 90-Day Window. The Courts Keep Saying No. He Keeps Going.
The Justice Department is using an immigration database to challenge voter registrations in 30 states, within 90 days of the midterm election. Courts have thrown out case after case. The purges continue.
Iran Offered a Deal. Trump Said No. The Blockade Continues.
Day 64 of the US-Iran war: a ceasefire holds in name while both sides blockade the world's most critical shipping strait and reject each other's terms.
The Administration That Doesn't Follow Court Orders
An AP review documents an unprecedented pattern: Trump officials defying lower court rulings not as exceptions but as policy.
Trump Tears Up the Turnberry Agreement
Raising EU auto tariffs to 25% doesn't just hit cars. It breaches a deal that also covers semiconductors, AI chips, and digital trade — the things the US most needs from Europe right now.
Trump Pulls Troops From Germany. Spain and Italy Are Next.
The withdrawal isn't about defense posture. It's punishment for not joining the Iran war, and every NATO ally knows it.
Trump Flies to Beijing. China Says Taiwan Is the Price of Admission.
Two weeks before the Trump-Xi summit, China's foreign minister told Rubio that Taiwan is the 'biggest risk' in the relationship — and the US side has not publicly disagreed.
Northwestern Pays $75 Million. Harvard's Judge Says Antisemitism Was a Smokescreen.
Two universities, two opposite outcomes, same week. One court finds the funding freeze was political coercion. One university pays $75 million to end the investigation.
The Clock Trump Can't Stop
Iran sent a new peace proposal to Pakistan. Trump called it insufficient. Congress's 60-day War Powers deadline is still ticking.
Who Gets to Stay Is Now a Question of Presidential Mood
The Supreme Court is deciding whether the executive branch can revoke Temporary Protected Status for 700,000 people whenever it wants, with no judicial review.
Spirit Airlines Is Dead. The Trump Administration Killed It By Not Saving It.
The low-cost carrier that survived bankruptcy twice has ceased all operations after the White House refused a $500 million lifeline. This is the first major US airline to shut down without a bailout.
Trump Declares the Ceasefire He Controls Has Ended the War He Started
On Day 60 of the War Powers clock, Trump told Congress the Iran ceasefire means hostilities have terminated. Legal experts say that is not how the law works.
Trump Rips Up the EU Car Deal and Announces 25% Auto Tariffs. Europe Has No Good Response.
The US-EU trade agreement was supposed to hold at a 10% baseline tariff. Trump has now raised the rate on cars and lorries to 25%, accusing the EU of non-compliance. The EU has no leverage it is willing to use.
The Special Relationship, Invoiced
UK exports to the US fell 25% after Liberation Day tariffs. Britain now runs a trade deficit with its largest trading partner. Polymarket says there is only a 22% chance of a deal before 2027.
Trump Pulls 5,000 Troops from Germany. NATO's Nervous System Just Got Cut.
The withdrawal is not about Germany's defense spending. It is punishment for Merz saying the obvious about Iran.
China's New Trade Law Lets It Seize Foreign Assets. Trump Visits in Two Weeks.
Beijing quietly amended its Foreign Trade Law to authorize punishment of companies that reduce their business with China, just as US firms are quietly doing exactly that. The timing is not coincidental.
Judge Calls Harvard Antisemitism Claims a Smokescreen. The Administration Just Revealed Its Real Strategy.
A federal judge ruled Trump illegally froze $2.6 billion in Harvard grants, calling it ideological punishment disguised as civil rights enforcement. The administration's response was to move the case to a different court.
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Trade the Blockade, Keep the Bomb
Tehran is offering to reopen the world's most important oil chokepoint in exchange for Washington dropping its nuclear demands. Trump is saying no. Both sides are right to distrust the other.
Putin's Victory Day Ceasefire Does Not Require Ukraine's Agreement. That Is the Point.
The Kremlin announced Russia will halt fighting on May 9 whether or not Kyiv agrees. Zelensky called it theater. Both men are right, and neither can afford to say what the gesture actually is.
SCOTUS Signals It Will Let Trump Deport a Million People Without Court Review
The conservative majority appears ready to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over TPS cancellations, turning humanitarian protection into a purely executive decision with no check.
Trump Declared the Iran War 'Terminated.' US Forces Are Still There.
The administration invoked a legal fiction to bypass a 53-year-old law, and Congress let it happen. The precedent is more dangerous than the war itself.
Trump Eyes New Iran Strikes as Oil Hits $126
US Central Command prepares a fresh wave of strikes while a fragile ceasefire is still technically in place.
Putin Proposes a Victory Day Ceasefire. Ukraine Calls It a Parade.
Russia says Ukraine's consent isn't required. Kyiv says Moscow just wants a safe backdrop for its military parade.
Supreme Court Signals It Will End Deportation Protections for 1.3 Million Migrants
A conservative majority appeared ready Wednesday to let Trump strip TPS from Haitians and Syrians -- and potentially from all 17 countries whose nationals hold the status.
Trump Pays $2 Billion in Taxpayer Money to Kill Wind Farms
The administration is using federal funds to buy out offshore wind contracts it could not cancel legally, turning a policy reversal into a taxpayer liability.
US and China Trade Barbs Two Weeks Before the Summit. Both Sides Are Building Leverage, Not Trust.
Bessent calls Beijing's new supply chain rules 'provocative' on the same day He Lifeng voices 'solemn concern' over US trade measures. The Trump-Xi meeting is 15 days away.
Kevin Warsh Clears Senate Banking Committee. The Fed's Independence Window Is Closing.
The party-line 13-11 vote advances a nominee who pledged Fed independence but whose confirmation is a direct reward for Trump's months-long pressure campaign against Powell.
The DOJ Charges Comey Over a Seashell Photo
The second indictment of a former FBI director for a beach photo is either the most embarrassing prosecution in modern history, or a warning shot designed to be dismissed.
The FCC Opens a License Review Over a Late-Night Joke
The White House wants Jimmy Kimmel fired. The FCC is helping. Neither will succeed, and that may be the point.
Oil Hits $119 After Trump Says the Blockade Is 'More Effective Than the Bombing'
The White House is preparing to extend its naval blockade of Iran indefinitely. Iran says it can hold out. Someone is wrong, and the world's energy markets are pricing both possibilities simultaneously.
The US Just Indicted a Sitting Mexican Governor for Running Cover for the Sinaloa Cartel
Ruben Rocha Moya of Sinaloa state is the highest-ranking member of Mexico's ruling Morena party ever charged by US prosecutors. Mexico City has not said whether it will extradite him.
Jerome Powell's Last Stand
The Fed is expected to hold rates steady at Powell's final scheduled meeting as chair. The real question is what happens to the institution after he is gone.
The Supreme Court Is Being Asked to Let Trump Deport 700,000 People
The case is officially about legal procedure. It is actually about whether a president can revoke immigration status that Congress created, based on stated reasons the lower courts found unpersuasive.
Trump and Putin Propose a Ukraine Ceasefire. Ukraine Has Not Agreed.
A 90-minute call between the two presidents produced a Victory Day truce offer that Kyiv has heard before, used before, and rejected before.
Trump Has Until Thursday to Get Congress to Authorize His War
The 60-day War Powers clock expires May 1. Congressional Republicans are nervous. Trump is ignoring the question.
Kevin Warsh Clears the Senate. The Real Question Is What He Does First.
With confirmation odds at 98.9%, the debate about who chairs the Fed is over. The debate about whether the Fed can still function independently has just started.
The Allegiance Test
Trump attended Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship, becoming the first sitting president to do so. The justices, including his own appointees, told him he was wrong.
The Seashell Prosecution
The DOJ just charged James Comey with threatening the president's life based on a photo of beach shells. Legal experts call it an embarrassment. The administration is calling it justice.
The Supreme Leader Is No Longer Supreme
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have assumed wartime command authority that formally belongs to Khamenei. The US is negotiating with a government whose actual decision-maker is now different from the one at the table.
The Security Theater Problem
A gunman walked through a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents Dinner carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and three knives. A vest saved the agent. A review will save no one from the next one.
The Tariff Laundering Operation
The Supreme Court killed Trump's tariffs in February. He is now rebuilding the same wall using legal authority the courts have traditionally not touched.
Affordable Cars Are Leaving the American Market
Nissan, Toyota and Hyundai have told the Trump administration that without a USMCA renewal, entry-level models no longer make economic sense to sell in the US.
Birthright Citizenship: SCOTUS Will Almost Certainly Rule Against Trump, But the Ruling Will Do More Than That
64% of Americans oppose ending birthright citizenship and the Court signaled strong skepticism in April oral argument. But a ruling that voids Trump's executive order will also settle what powers lower courts have to issue nationwide injunctions. That second question reshapes everything else Trump is trying to do.
China Used the Trade Truce to Build a Better Weapon
While Trump called the October summit a '12 out of 10,' Beijing enacted laws to punish supply chain offshoring, tightened rare earth licensing, and banned foreign AI chips from state data centers. The truce is real. The preparation for what comes after it is also real.
Courts Dismantle Trump's Immigration Architecture, One Proclamation at a Time
The DC Circuit just killed Trump's 'invasion' hook for blocking asylum. This week SCOTUS hears TPS cases covering 350,000 Haitians. The legal architecture of mass deportation is being stress-tested at every level simultaneously.
Day 72: The DHS Shutdown Has Already Won by Continuing
The Senate passed $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol on a 50-48 vote. The House refuses to take it up until after a 'skinny' bill. Markets give 88% odds the shutdown lasts past April. Trump endorsed renaming ICE to NICE.
Iran's Hormuz Gambit: Reopen the Strait, Defer the Bomb
Tehran's new proposal would trade peace for the Strait while keeping its nuclear program intact. Trump must decide whether relief now is worth leverage lost forever.
The $166 Billion Refund Nobody Can Actually Collect: The IEEPA Ruling's Unfinished Business
The Supreme Court killed Trump's Liberation Day tariffs in February. The refund process launched April 20. But 56,000 importers are chasing $127 billion through a new government portal, while Congress hagles over whether small businesses will ever see a dime.
Dhillon's DOJ Is Completing the Rollback Reagan Couldn't: What Changed and Why It Matters
In the 1980s, GOP moderates in the Senate and Cabinet stopped Reagan's civil rights retrenchment. Today, Harmeet Dhillon is executing the same agenda without a single Republican senator objecting. The silence is the story.
The Supreme Court Looks Poised to Rule Against Trump. His Own Party Is Already Moving Past It.
With 64% of Americans opposing birthright citizenship repeal and the conservative-majority court appearing skeptical, Senate Republicans are advancing legislation that would accomplish the same result differently.
The Justice Department Dismantles DACA From the Inside
By ruling that DACA status alone cannot block deportation, the administration's own immigration courts have accomplished what congressional repeal never could.
The EPA Just Deleted the Legal Foundation for Every US Climate Rule. 25 States Are Suing.
The 2009 Endangerment Finding said greenhouse gases endanger public health. Every US climate regulation for 17 years was built on it. The Trump EPA repealed it last week, voiding vehicle standards, power plant rules, methane limits, and aircraft emissions rules in a single action.
Harvard's Graduate Workers Are on Strike While Trump Freezes $2.2 Billion in Grants. The University Is Being Squeezed From Both Sides.
4,000 workers walked out demanding higher wages and visa protections for international students. Harvard's administration is simultaneously fighting a federal funding freeze, a tax on its endowment, and threats to its nonprofit status. Everyone is using everyone else as leverage.
Iran Ceasefire Talks Break Down as War Powers Clock Ticks
With Trump's envoys a no-show in Islamabad and Tehran's diplomat already on a plane to Oman, the US faces a constitutional deadline in five days that neither side has acknowledged publicly.
RFK Jr. Told the Senate He Is Not Cutting Medicaid. His Budget Cuts $15.8 Billion From HHS.
While RFK Jr. testified that he was not reducing Medicaid coverage, his own 2027 budget proposal would impose new eligibility restrictions, eliminate payments to family caregivers, and defund programs used disproportionately by disabled children and rural hospitals.
$166 Billion Goes Back to Walmart. American Families Get Nothing.
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's tariffs illegal, the government is now refunding the money, and the legal structure guarantees that corporations receive every dollar while the consumers who bore the costs are locked out entirely.
Trump Is Suing an Agency He Controls. A Judge Wants to Know How That Works.
A federal judge has paused Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, noting that a president cannot be 'sufficiently adverse' to his own executive branch to satisfy the Constitution's requirements for a real legal dispute.
Trump Escapes the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Now He Wants to Escape the Venue Entirely.
A gunman breached security at the annual press dinner, and before the night was over, Trump was using the chaos to accelerate a plan his lawyers had been blocking for months.
Trump Killed $35 Billion in Wind Projects. Republican Districts Lost Twice as Much as Democratic Ones.
Nine House Republicans are publicly breaking with Trump on offshore wind. Courts have temporarily stopped the cancellations. Virginia's redistricting just made the political math worse for the party.
One Year of Trump Tariffs: The Numbers Are In
The Budget Lab at Yale finds 460,000 jobs lost and $1,700 per household per year. The administration says this proves the policy is working.
Appeals Court Kills Trump's Asylum Ban. The Supreme Court Is Next.
A 2-1 ruling says the president cannot rewrite immigration law by proclamation. Trump's path to SCOTUS is now the point.
Trump Signed an Order Telling the Post Office How to Handle Ballots. The Post Office Answers to a Board That Answers to Nobody.
The March 31 executive order requires the postmaster general to regulate mail voting. Federal law explicitly prohibits presidential control of the mail. Both things are true at once.
Trump Owes $159 Billion in Tariff Refunds. He Is Telling Companies Not to Collect.
The Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs, CBP opened a refund portal, and Trump responded by publicly threatening companies that use it. The rule of law is now a political risk calculation.
The 60-Day Clock Runs Out May 1. Trump Has No Intention of Stopping.
The War Powers Resolution says the Iran war needs congressional authorization by Thursday. The White House says the law does not apply. Congress has not decided whether to find out who is right.
The Man Trump Picked to Run the Fed Says He Won't Do What Trump Wants
Kevin Warsh's confirmation hearing produced the predictable pledges of independence. The predictable part is the problem: every Fed nominee says this, and the chair who actually defies a sitting president has not yet existed.
The EPA Wants to Test Your Water for Abortion Pills
The agency added mifepristone and misoprostol to its drinking water monitoring list. The stated reason is environmental safety. The actual effect is a surveillance infrastructure for medication abortion.
No One in Washington Wants to Own the Haiti Decision
The Supreme Court hears arguments April 29 on whether the Trump administration can deport Haitians back to a country in active gang war. Congress just voted to stop it. Both institutions are trying to hand the problem to the other.
The Ceasefire That Isn't
Both sides are calling it peace while actively fighting. The real question is who blinks first before the next deadline.
Trump Extended a Ceasefire That Lebanon Cannot Keep
The Oval Office meeting produced a three-week truce extension and a photo opportunity. It did not produce a party that controls Hezbollah. That remains the only thing that matters.
The $166 Billion Bait and Switch
The Supreme Court struck down the tariffs. The refunds are real. The question nobody will answer is who actually gets the money.
The Court Said Trump's Asylum Ban Is Illegal. The White House Will Try Again.
A federal appeals court struck down the administration's summary deportation rules today. This is the third time a court has blocked a Trump immigration order at this stage. The administration keeps filing.
Trump to Britain: Protect Apple or Pay Tariffs
The UK's digital services tax is not a trade dispute. It is a test of whether any US ally can tax American tech companies without US retaliation.
Zelensky Agreed Three Times, Then Didn't
The $500 billion Ukraine mineral deal has become a negotiation theater where each party is performing commitment for a different audience.
The Fed Chair Who Won't Say What He Thinks
Kevin Warsh's confirmation hearing confirmed one thing: he has no intention of telling Congress, or the markets, what he will actually do.
SCOTUS vs. the 14th Amendment
Oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara revealed a court unlikely to rewrite a 128-year-old precedent, but the hearing exposed what the administration is actually asking for.
The President Can't Run the Post Office. He's Trying Anyway.
Trump's March 31 executive order instructs the Postmaster General to control how states send ballots. It violates a 55-year-old law, and a coalition of AGs is now defending it.
Trump Got All 17 Pharma Companies to Say Yes. Now the Hard Part Starts.
Every major drug company has signed a most-favored-nation pledge. None of it is enforceable, and the tariff relief that made it happen just created a new exemption class.
Trump Wants Rate Cuts. His Own Nominee Says He Can't Have Them.
Kevin Warsh's Fed confirmation hearing exposed a trap: he was picked to cut rates into a war-driven inflation surge that makes cutting impossible.
The Supreme Court Is About to Rule on Birthright Citizenship. The Outcome May Turn on a Single Word from 1868.
Whether millions of US-born children of undocumented immigrants remain citizens may depend on how SCOTUS defines 'domicile' in the 14th Amendment. The court already signaled doubt about Trump's position. The market puts his odds at 8%.
A Federal Judge Ordered Trump to Unblock Wind and Solar. The Permits Were Being Delayed While Fossil Fuels Carried On.
Chief Judge Denise Casper in Boston issued a preliminary injunction against five Interior Department and Army Corps policies that put wind and solar permitting in a separate, slower track from other energy sources. The court found likely APA violations.
Trump is Moving Against Birth Control. Quietly, Through a Federal Program.
The administration is transforming Title X, the $300M federal family planning program, away from contraception and toward 'natural family planning.' Planned Parenthood is being cut off. This is happening without legislation.
Trump Tells Companies to Waive Their Court-Ordered Refunds
The Supreme Court struck down his tariffs as unconstitutional. The refund portal is open. Trump is now pressuring companies to not use it, promising to 'remember' those who comply.
Trump's Fed Pick Swore He Wouldn't Be Trump's 'Sock Puppet.' That's Exactly What a Sock Puppet Would Say.
Kevin Warsh cleared his confirmation hearing by pledging strict Fed independence. The question is whether a nominee who owes his job to presidential pressure can deliver independence once confirmed.
Trump's EPA Cuts Are Making the Air Dirtier. The People Breathing It Cannot Afford to Move.
DOGE-driven EPA staff cuts have gutted enforcement capacity in the same states where air quality was already failing federal standards. The regulatory apparatus still exists on paper. It has stopped functioning.
The Government Is Mailing $166 Billion Back to Importers. Consumers Who Paid the Tariffs Get Nothing.
The refund portal is live. Only the companies that wrote the checks to Customs can claim. The people who actually absorbed the cost in higher prices are legally invisible.
Kevin Warsh Goes Before the Senate Promising Independence He May Not Be Able to Deliver
Trump's Fed pick is vowing to protect central bank autonomy while depending entirely on Trump's party to get confirmed. The contradiction is the point.
Witkoff Has Been to Moscow Eight Times. He Has Never Been to Kyiv.
Zelensky is not complaining about protocol. He is naming the structural imbalance that makes a just peace deal geometrically impossible.
The Supreme Court Is About to Rule That the 14th Amendment Means What It Says
Oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara exposed the government's 'domicile' theory as untenable. Multiple conservative justices are already signaling they will not accept it. A decision is expected in late June.
Kennedy Is Running HHS. Trump Nominated a Vaccine Supporter to Run the CDC.
RFK Jr. got grilled in Congress over killing a CDC vaccine awareness campaign. The same week, Trump nominated a former deputy surgeon general who supports vaccines to lead the CDC.
The US Is Funding Russia's War While Ukraine Bombs Russia's Oil Refineries
Washington extended a waiver allowing Russian oil sales on April 17. Within hours, Ukrainian drones struck five Russian refineries. Kyiv is now running a unilateral sanctions policy against its own ally's policy.
The Largest Trade Refund in US History Goes to the Wrong People
The CAPE portal opened Monday for businesses to claim $127-166 billion in tariff refunds. Consumers who actually paid the higher prices get nothing.
Trump Wants a Single AI Law for All 50 States. He's Lost the Senate 99 to 1.
The White House's National AI Framework asks Congress to preempt every state AI law in America. States have enacted 145 laws and introduced 1,208 more. Congress stripped the preemption provision from the big bill 99-1.
The Government That Made Apple Delete Its Own Critics
A federal judge found the Trump administration coerced Facebook and Apple into removing ICE-tracking tools, ruling it a First Amendment violation.
Tariffs Ruled Illegal, Then Hiked to 15%
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs as unconstitutional, so Trump raised them under a different legal theory.
Ukraine Wants a Four-Way Summit. Russia Says Negotiations Are Not a Priority.
Ukraine's foreign minister proposed a Zelenskyy-Putin meeting in Turkey with Trump and Erdogan present. Russia's Lavrov responded that talks are 'not a top priority' at the Antalya forum where both were speaking.
The Fed's New Chair Will Inherit a Trap
Kevin Warsh faces his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday as Trump demands rate cuts, oil spikes, and inflation shows no signs of cooperating.
The EPA Just Erased the Legal Foundation for All Federal Climate Rules. The Courts Are the Only Thing Left.
Repealing the 2009 Endangerment Finding doesn't just end emissions regulations. It ends the EPA's legal authority to regulate greenhouse gases under any future administration without an act of Congress.
The DOJ Is Asking Courts to Erase the Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy Convictions. That Is Not Forgiveness. It Is Revision.
Jeanine Pirro's filing doesn't argue the defendants are innocent. It argues that erasing their convictions is 'in the interests of justice.' The two things are not the same, and the courts are being asked to pretend they are.
Oil Companies Celebrated Trump. Now They Are Watching WTI Drop 9% in a Day.
Energy Secretary Wright admitted gas might not fall below $3 until 2027. WTI crude dropped 9.6% Sunday. The 'drill baby drill' coalition is discovering that war in the Middle East and Trump's tariff-driven recession fears are worse for energy markets than any Biden regulation.
Bessent Said No. Then Said Yes. The Russia Oil Sanctions Reversal Is Not a Mistake. It Is the Policy.
Two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters the Russian oil sanctions waiver would not be renewed, the Treasury renewed it. Ukraine is calling it a betrayal. Russia is calling it cooperation.
The SAVE Act Is Not About Noncitizens. It Is About Who Controls the Voter List.
Trump's push to use DHS's SAVE program for election verification is dividing election officials ahead of midterms, and polls show it is popular.
SCOTUS Heard the Birthright Citizenship Case. The Justices Are Not Buying It.
Across the ideological spectrum, Supreme Court justices pressed Trump's solicitor general on why the 14th Amendment means something different now. He had no good answer.
Trump Is Trying to Kill 1,000 State AI Bills. The States Are Not Listening.
The White House wants one federal standard for AI. States are passing laws anyway. A Utah Republican who used to work at Google is running for senate on defying his own party's president.
Trump Signed an Executive Order for Psychedelics. The War on Drugs Is Still Running in the Same Building.
Ibogaine remains a Schedule I controlled substance. The executive order Trump signed with Joe Rogan in the room does not change that. What it does is create a path for veterans to get it before it is legal, without the protections that legality would provide.
Fraud Is the Pretext. The Map Tells You the Truth.
Trump says he's cracking down on Medicaid fraud. The enforcement actions are concentrated in blue states. Minnesota fixed the problem CMS cited and lost the funding anyway. The pattern is not about fraud.
The $127 Billion Refund Nobody Will Receive
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs. Starting April 20, companies can apply for refunds. Most will not get them. Trump already has a backup plan.
Fifty Labs, No Standards
Trump wants a single federal AI law and no state interference. States are passing over 1,500 AI bills anyway. The result is not regulation. It is noise.
Trump's Last Move on the Fed
Powell's term ends May 15. Trump says he will fire him if he stays on. Markets are pricing a 78% chance Powell is gone by June 30. What they are not pricing is what comes after.
FISA Section 702 Is About to Expire. Republicans Killed the Bill That Would Have Saved It.
Twenty Republicans joined most Democrats to block the five-year extension Trump demanded. Then the same chamber voted unanimously to punt for ten days. The program expires Monday.
Ten Republicans Voted Against Trump on Immigration. It Will Not Matter.
The House passed a bill protecting Haitian immigrants. The Senate will kill it. Trump will veto anything that survives. The vote was not for policy; it was for the record.
Someone Bet $950 Million on Falling Oil Prices. Then Trump Announced the Iran Ceasefire.
The CFTC is investigating two instances where oil futures volumes surged minutes before major Trump announcements on Iran. The question is not whether the pattern exists. It does. The question is whether anyone will be held accountable.
Israel and Lebanon Have a Ceasefire. Hezbollah Is Not Part of It.
The 10-day truce excludes the party doing most of the fighting. Israel has reserved the right to strike at any time. Hezbollah says occupied land gives Lebanon 'the right to resist.' This is not a ceasefire. It is a pause with paperwork.
Justice Jackson Says the Supreme Court Is Rubber-Stamping Illegal Policies. She Is Probably Right.
A sitting justice went to Yale Law School to accuse her colleagues of issuing 'scratch-paper musings' that let Trump implement policies courts already found unlawful.
Trump Is About to Make Banks the Immigration Police.
An executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship data from all customers would turn the financial system into a deportation tool. Bessent says it's reasonable. Immigrant advocates say it creates an underclass with no safe place to keep money.
Trump Says He'll Fire Powell Even After the Chair Term Ends. The Market Is Betting He Won't.
Trump threatened to remove Powell not just as chair but as a Fed governor. Polymarket says 8.5% chance he actually does it by June. The gap between the threat and the market reveals the real bet.
After the Ceasefire, Trump Told NATO to Stay Away. The UK and France Launched Their Own Mission.
The Strait of Hormuz reopened. NATO offered help. Trump said no and called the alliance useless. Within hours, Starmer and Macron announced a multinational shipping protection mission without the US.
Rural Farmers Bet on Solar. Trump Changed the Rules After the Money Was Spent.
The USDA froze the REAP clean energy grant program and rescinded its funding announcement. Farmers who installed solar panels under the old rules are now holding debt with no grant to offset it.
The First State to Say No to AI
Maine just passed the nation's first statewide moratorium on AI data centers. The governor hasn't signed it yet, and that's where the real story begins.
The DOJ Just Said Trump Can Burn His Papers
The Justice Department declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The law was passed because a president tried to do exactly this before.
The Justice Who Said What the Court Won't
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Yale speech against the shadow docket is not just dissent: it is a warning about what the Court has already become.
The Fourth Time Is Not the Charm
Senate Republicans blocked the Iran war powers resolution again. But the 60-day War Powers Act clock is ticking, and their private words no longer match their public votes.
He Said It Was Defeated
In January, Trump told G7 leaders inflation was beaten. The IMF now projects the US will have the worst inflation of any G7 country in 2026.
SCOTUS Is About to Rule on Birthright Citizenship. The Market Says 94% Chance They Strike It Down.
The Supreme Court heard final arguments on Trump's executive order redefining citizenship. The constitutional question is live. The outcome almost certainly isn't.
The Hormuz Blockade Is Not About Iran. It's About What China Will Agree to Before Trump Arrives in Beijing.
The US naval embargo that's halting oil tankers in the world's most critical shipping lane has a secondary audience of one: Xi Jinping, who needs that oil and who Trump is visiting in six weeks.
Europe Is Building a NATO Without the US. Germany Just Agreed to Help.
European allies have moved from theorizing about American withdrawal to actively designing command structures that exclude Washington. The 80-year alliance is splitting in plain sight.
A Judge Froze RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Changes. He's Already Working Around the Ruling.
US District Judge Brian Murphy blocked all Trump-era changes to the national vaccine schedule. The same day, HHS announced new criteria for the advisory panel RFK Jr. had already stacked. The courts and the executive are playing whack-a-mole with public health infrastructure.
Trump Threatens to Fire Powell. The Market Says He Won't Get What He Wants Either Way.
The Federal Reserve chair's term ends May 15, but his replacement can't get confirmed, a criminal investigation is blocking the vote, and Powell says he's staying. No one is getting a rate cut.
The Court That Was Defied Just Got Its Inquiry Killed
A DC Circuit panel of Trump appointees has shut down the year-long contempt investigation into who ordered deportation planes to ignore a federal judge's order. The mechanism for holding the executive accountable just broke.
The Arms Transfer That Could Detonate the Xi Summit
US intelligence says China is routing air defense systems to Iran. Trump is threatening 50% tariffs. A May summit hangs in the balance. Beijing denies everything.
The Deregulators Are Getting Blocked by Their Own Side
The EPA is delaying dozens of PFAS approvals because Administrator Zeldin fears backlash from RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement. The administration that promised the largest deregulatory push in US history is holding up chemical approvals to avoid a fight with its own base.
446 Hospitals Are Now at High Risk of Closing. Most Are in Trump Country.
A new Public Citizen analysis names 446 hospitals across 44 states at heightened risk of closure after the Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The hospitals most exposed are rural, and the counties they serve voted heavily for Trump.
The Court Ordered $133 Billion Back. Now What?
The Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs. A federal court ordered refunds. Trump is already testing a workaround using a different statute. The constitutional crisis is just starting.
The Fed Has No Good Options Left
A Federal Reserve study confirms tariffs drove 3.1% cumulative inflation. Consumer spending is holding. Growth is stalling. The Fed cannot cut rates into a supply shock without making it worse.
Who Is an American
SCOTUS heard two hours of argument on birthright citizenship. Conservative justices were skeptical of Trump. A ruling isn't the end of the story.
God's Man Versus Caesar's
Trump called the first American pope 'WEAK,' posted AI of himself as Jesus, and got the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in return. The feud is real and the stakes are not about optics.
The Truce That Never Was
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a 32-hour Easter ceasefire. Ukraine counted 2,299 violations. The ceasefire expired with both sides accusing each other and Trump's peace plan no closer than before.
The Flag That Forced a Settlement
The Trump administration spent two months fighting to keep the Pride flag off a federal flagpole at Stonewall. A lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court changed that in days.
The Shoulder Missile Gambit
Trump threatened China with 50% tariffs over a reported MANPADS shipment to Iran. The shipment is unverified. The tariff is untriggered. Both sides are using the threat as a bargaining chip before a May summit.
The Judge Who Ruled Wrong
The Trump administration fired the immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against Ozturk and Mahdawi. The message is not subtle: rule against us and lose your job.
The Citizen Collapse
2025 began with a surge in naturalization applications as immigrants sought security before Trump took office. It ended with the fewest approvals in years. The pipeline is now poisoned in both directions.
Funding Half a Border Agency
Congress reopened DHS after 40 days but left ICE and Border Patrol unfunded. Now Republicans want reconciliation to finish the job without Democrats. The shutdown is over in name only.
Alliance Without a War
Trump threatened to pull the US from NATO after European allies refused to back his Iran war. The alliance survived its first real test of whether it still means anything when Washington acts unilaterally.
Two Drug Prices at Once
Trump is simultaneously threatening 100% tariffs on brand-name drugs that do not cut prices and expanding Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices downward. These are opposite levers. One of them is a bluff.
Tariff Whack-a-Mole
After SCOTUS killed the IEEPA tariffs, Trump pivoted to Section 122. Now that too is before a federal court, and the question is whether any statutory authority can sustain his trade policy.
The Bureaucracy That's Losing the Chip War
Trump's plan to sell AI chips to allies is collapsing inside the Commerce Department, where staff have fled and license approvals now take months.
Shutdown Theater
DHS ordered furloughed workers back to their desks during a shutdown, which is either a constitutional violation or proof that 'shutdown' no longer means what it used to.
The Tariff That Outlived Its Legal Theory
Trump's 10% global tariff is standing on a 1974 law the Supreme Court already gutted, and a panel of judges just told him so.
The DHS Shutdown Ended. The Fight It Was About Did Not.
After 40 days, the Senate reopened most of the Department of Homeland Security but deliberately left ICE and Border Patrol funding unresolved. The compromise is not a settlement. It is a timeout.
The EPA Just Declared It Has No Legal Authority Over Climate Change
Revoking the 2009 endangerment finding does not disprove climate science. It just removes the government's legal obligation to act on it.
The Pentagon Keeps Losing in Court and Keeps Not Caring
Judge Friedman found the Defense Department in contempt for evading his press access ruling. The administration's plan is not to comply. It is to appeal.
SCOTUS Is About to Strike Down the Birthright Citizenship Order. That Is Not the Hard Part.
The justices are almost certain to rule against Trump. The question they are really debating is how far the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause reaches, and the answer will outlast this case.
Sotomayor Says the Supreme Court Did This to Itself
The Trump administration has filed 30 emergency SCOTUS applications. The court has ruled in its favor more than 80% of the time. Sotomayor's diagnosis: the conservative majority created the incentive by treating temporary orders as permanent wins.
Trump's Backup Tariff Plan Is in Court. It Has a 150-Day Clock and a Dubious Legal Theory.
After the Supreme Court killed his IEEPA tariffs in February, Trump pivoted to Section 122 of the Trade Act. The new 10% global levy requires a real 'balance-of-payments deficit' and expires in 150 days. Both conditions are working against him.
Putin's Easter Ceasefire Is a Trap, and Both Sides Know It
A 32-hour pause that neither side believes in, brokered by no one, enforced by nothing, is not a step toward peace. It is a rehearsal for blaming the other side.
Zero Federal AI Laws, 1,561 State Bills, and a White House Framework Nobody Has to Follow
The US has no binding AI law while the EU enforces its Act across 27 countries. The federal-state collision is now the biggest AI governance story in the world.
The MAGA Stronghold Held. But a Democrat Got 42% in Marjorie Taylor Greene's Old Seat.
Clay Fuller won Georgia's 14th district special election, but the margin collapsed from a 29-point blowout to 15 points. Republicans are calling it a spending anomaly. Democrats are calling it a bellwether.
The Court Took Away the President's Tariff Gun. He's Already Looking for Another One.
SCOTUS killed $166 billion in tariffs in February. By April, Trump was threatening new 50% levies with no named legal authority.
Beijing Invited the Opposition. Taiwan's Government Should Be Alarmed.
The KMT chair's 'Journey of Peace' to Beijing is a sophisticated move to split Taiwanese politics before Trump meets Xi.
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise 21 Million People. Speaker Johnson Says That's the Point.
Trump's voter ID bill passed the House in February. A Republican speaker was caught on a hot mic saying it would cut 18% of the electorate. The Senate is now deciding whether that counts as a selling point.
SCOTUS Will Almost Certainly Strike Down the Birthright Order. The Reasoning May Be Worse Than the Order.
Polymarket gives Trump's birthright citizenship executive order a 4.9% chance of surviving. But Justice Sotomayor raised the question nobody wants answered: if the logic works for future babies, does it work for people already born?
NATO Survived the Cold War. Whether It Survives Trump Depends on Who Blinks First.
Trump called NATO a 'paper tiger' and threatened withdrawal after European allies refused to join Operation Epic Fury. The alliance is now more fractured than at any point since 1966.
The Iran Ceasefire: Trump's Victory Lap Is a Cover Story
The deal was built on Iran's 10-point plan. Calling that a win requires ignoring what the plan says.
Sánchez's Bucket and What It Costs to Say No Inside NATO
Spain's PM said the obvious thing. you don't get credit for putting out a fire you started. The interesting question is why he's the only one.
Trump's Iran Ceasefire: Victory or Surrender?
The strongman who threatened to destroy Iran just settled for a two-week pause.