Politics
Americans No Longer Trust Trump To Handle Inflation
The president has spent six months promising to make everything more expensive, and polls show that Americans have noticed.
How To Keep Your Radio Station Going When the Government's Checks Don't Come
The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?
Death to Big Bird
Plus: Jerome Powell on Trump's kill list, conservatives embrace speech restrictions, homeschooling heat, and more...
Trump and Mamdani Battle for the Populist Crown
Tune in on July 15 at 6:20 p.m. Eastern to hear four co-hosts' unflinching critiques of the latest in politics, culture, and whatever fresh hell awaits us all.
MAGA's Epstein Files Fight Shows the Long Tail of QAnon
Like sex trafficking panic more broadly, the Epstein files are a useful political tool—as long as they remain hidden.
Leaked Memo: ICE To Block Bond Hearings for Millions of Undocumented Immigrants. Detentions To Skyrocket.
Immigrants who arrive illegally in the U.S. may be detained for months or years as they await a resolution to their immigration cases.
Inflation Rises, Tariffs to Blame
Plus: Zohran Mamdani's brilliant plan, Google monopoly claims fall flat, and more...
Barack Obama Wants Democrats To Be the YIMBY Party. That's Easier Said Than Done.
The housing crisis is bad for national Democrats. At the state level, it's a political winner.
D.C. Finally Moves To Implement Ranked Choice Voting After 3–1 Voter Approval
Voters overwhelmingly supported Initiative 83, but Democratic lawmakers have been hesitant to adopt it.
Will Trump Actually Close the Education Department?
Plus: Cuomo has a hard time taking no for an answer, a pro-party manifesto, Trump's about-face on Ukraine, and more...
Justice Kavanaugh's CASA Concurrence Moves Away From Abstractions About The Shadow Docket To Focus On The "Interim Before The Interim"
The Supreme Court may not have to intervene for "run-of-the mill cases" but will intervene for "major new federal statutes or executive actions."
The Department of Justice Just Sided with RFK Jr. Group's Claim That News Orgs Can't Boycott Misinformation
Applying antitrust statutes to alleged publisher boycotts doesn’t protect free speech. It does the opposite.
Argentina's Former President Gets 6 Years and a Lifetime Political Ban
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s six-year prison sentence and lifetime political ban mark a historic victory for accountability—and a public eager to believe that no one is above the law.
New 30 Percent Tariff Threats
Plus: Clemency revelations, climate change law affects New York housing prices, Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship, and more...
Free Speech Coalition Brings Text, History, and Tradition to the Free Speech Clause
Justice Thomas tries to Bruenify free speech doctrine, but I'm not sure it will work.
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Colorado River abstention, Wilton-Brillhart abstention, and sua sponte shenanigans.
The Kash Patel Loyalty Test
Plus: Canada tariffs, New York City overtaken by sharks, Paxton cheating scandal, and more...
Trump Wants Harvard To Hand Over Info on Over 10,000 International Students
The university says it will continue to defend itself against government overreach.
The People Who Wrecked N.Y. Schools Love Zohran Mamdani
Democrats are politicking as if their COVID-era derangements don't matter.
Tariff Vengeance
Plus: Prime sales slumping, Hill Country flood victim search continues, Diocese of San Bernardino takes on ICE, and more...
Netanyahu Nominates Trump for Peace Prize
Plus: TSA time wasters, in defense of tourist traps, Trump announces new tariffs, and more...
TSA Policies Become Slightly Less Stupid
Plus: Texas flooding update, shark policy, tariffs affecting Prime Day, and more...
Netanyahu Meets With Trump
Plus: Zohran Mamdani's creative race identification, catastrophic Hill Country flooding, and more...
Colleges Created a Diversity Box-Ticking Game—Zohran Mamdani Just Played It
The big problem here is the elite racism of college admissions departments, not the mayoral candidate's creative box-checking.
May Judge Order Divorcing Parent to Include Disclaimer With All Future Child Abuse Allegations?
A trial judge had found that the mother had "intentionally weaponized" child abuse reports, and required her to so state in any future child abuse allegations made to authorities.
