Category: Politics

The NFL logo adorns the uniform of a referee prior to the start of Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots on February 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, Calif. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America Stay up to date with […]

The claim that the founders meant America to be a Christian nation isn’t just bad history—it’s a declaration of war by the religious right. Ad Policy President Donald Trump holds a cross given to him by Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo) The day after President Donald […]

Politics / Authoritarian Watch / May 15, 2026 Trump’s second term is unabashedly a project of self-enrichment and oligarchic rule. Ad Policy A protest against President-elect Donald Trump in New York City on November 9, 2016. (Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty Images) Authoritarians tend not to consider the public purse or the well-being of […]

President Trump shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping as he leaves after a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing on May 15. Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/Pool/AFP via Getty Images BEIJING — After wrapping up his two-day visit to China, President Trump called the trip “incredible,” but while […]

When immigration agents pulled U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas from his car this month and shackled him, he wasn’t surprised. He wasn’t scared.  He was tired. As ProPublica detailed last fall, he had already been detained twice before. A year ago, Garcia Venegas was filming his brother’s arrest during a raid on their coastal Alabama […]

A top regulator for Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division acknowledged in a private meeting with industry representatives that the amount of chemically converted hemp being illegally sold as marijuana is far greater than the agency has publicly disclosed. The remarks confirmed testing by The Denver Gazette and ProPublica, which found signs of hemp in marijuana vapes […]

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a house heavily damaged after a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption toggle caption Evgeniy Maloletka/AP KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous […]

Activism / StudentNation / May 15, 2026 As reproductive rights shrink nationwide, university students are building grassroots networks to get contraception to their peers. Ad Policy This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. For more StudentNation, check […]

Demonstrators against the redrawing of Tennessee’s congressional maps following the approval of a new congressional map during a special legislative session at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. on May 7. Madison Thorn/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Madison Thorn/Bloomberg via Getty Images MEMPHIS, Tenn. — From the founding of Memphis more […]

Charles Mauldin remembers that his lungs felt like they were imploding when he breathed in tear gas more than 60 years ago. It was Sunday, March 7, 1965, when Mauldin, who was 17, joined hundreds of other demonstrators in a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state Capitol in Montgomery to demand voting rights for […]