The Department of Homeland Security has denied it.

A watchdog group has asked for an investigation into Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor on the James Comey and Letitia James cases.

The Trump administration is citing a fringe theory in court to kill the consumer watchdog agency.

Senator Tim Kaine says people are “overdramatizing” things.

Thoughts and Prayers takes a fresh — and deliberately unsettling — approach to America’s active-shooter dystopia

Joan Walsh The alleged “compromise” is a boon for the GOP, and especially those who helped Trump dispute the 2020 election results. The post The Bill to End the Shutdown Is Full of Give...

“If you look at affordability, which [Democrats] campaigned on, they lied,” Trump said. The numbers show he and his administration are the ones lying about rising costs

Kelly Denton-Borhaug The systematic violence of American militarism has shaped all our lives, including the soldiers who have come to realize that they were used to perpetrate it. The p...

The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

As the government’s closure drags on, commercial airline passengers are suffering. But private aviation is doing banner business.

Despite considerable hand-wringing in the party about caving to Republicans in the government closure, some Democrats see potential upsides in the outcome.

The transportation secretary said data would guide the decision. He also stepped up his warnings of potential chaos, saying some airlines could ground their fleets if the shutdown continued.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, said the African country has a long history of corruption. The amount paid is far more than recent annual assistance given to it.

A father from suburban Chicago said Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sprayed him and his 1-year-old daughter while they were leaving a parking lot over the weekend. On S...

The central issue of the government closure remains unresolved, leaving Republicans under political pressure ahead of the midterms.

Last week, a jury in Washington, D.C. refused to convict a man who became a folk hero when he threw a sandwich at a federal agent. In New York City, Zohran Mamdani won a brilliantly executed mayora...

During the government shutdown, booksellers are collecting food for Americans who receive federal aid to buy groceries.

It is understandable that many Democrats are furious with the senators who voted to end More »

In all the assessments of how little congressional Democrats got from the longest governm... More »

Trump really really doesn’t want to help hungry people

Key elements of the mayor-elect’s campaign have enormous potential for a party that was badly beaten in 2024.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

A retired Coast Guard commander said she was “fearful for women in uniform right now.”

During the five years I worked as an environmental-studies professor at a progressive private college, I undertook a small, semesterly rebellion: I had students read “Confessions of a Recovering En...

Late last month, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with 855,279 articles, no human editors, and no way for users to request improvements beyond a suggestion box addressed ...

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on November 16.

The resurrection, decline, rise, and fall of the corporate alternative minimum tax

TNR’s Monica Potts and Alex Shephard say the Democrats’ decision to cut a deal and end the shutdown was stupid but not surprising.

Recent history has shown that attorneys and jurists can play a big role in bringing their nations back from the brink of autocracy. That day is coming for us as well.

Meta is betting on generative AI for a new generation of aggressive advertising. It requires immense energy, much of which will likely come from fossil fuels.

It’s great that voters have turned against Trump. But they turned against Biden. They keep turning against presidents. Here’s how Democrats can deal with that.

Histories of the epidemic tend to focus on coastal cities, but the response was very different in the middle of the country.

Americans have little faith in Congress to do the right thing.

Trump’s angry tirade about air traffic controllers and the government shutdown showed his weakness. A sharp observer of Senate Democrats explains why they seem to be caving—and what they can do ins...

Andrew Taake is free despite pleading guilty to the crime.

Stewart Rhodes is making the most of Donald Trump pardoning him.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called out federal agents for their photo op after attacking a Chicago neighborhood.

The Democratic Senate leader has lost the thread. Everyone is suffering because of his lack of judgment.

Elie Mystal Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic. The post Democrats Should Have Le...

Bryce Covert With the government shutdown now the longest in history, the neediest Americans are forgoing food, medical care, and other essentials to survive. The post For Families on t...

It was never about the shutdown.

Nicholas Lemann Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. The post How Can We Fix American Democracy? appeared first on The Nation.

Elizabeth Borgwardt The new film Nuremberg may tell us as much about the present as about the past. The post Rethinking Nuremberg for the 21st Century appeared first on The Nation.

Scott Hechinger The disappearance of the platform is bigger than one newsroom. The post The Shuttering of “Teen Vogue” and the Silencing of Progressive Voices appeared first on The Nation.

Jeet Heer The Democratic leader’s cave-in makes it all too clear: It’s time to clean house in the Senate. The post After This Shutdown Surrender, Chuck Schumer Needs to Go appeared firs...

Commercial production has long been crucial to sustaining entertainment workers in the Los Angeles area. But it continues to plummet.

“Our long national nightmare is different,” Stephen Colbert said after some Democratic senators voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown.

For decades, Iranians fleeing persecution have found protection in the United States. But this fall, the Trump administration deported a planeload of people to Iran after making a deal with Tehran.

Moderate Black voters and young progressives favored Zohran Mamdani for mayor, while Andrew Cuomo won many wealthy New Yorkers and those who voted for Donald Trump.

The vote, on Day 41 of the shutdown, signaled an end in sight to weeks of gridlock. Eight members of the Democratic Caucus supplied the critical backing.