Courts

Trump Shrinks His $10 Billion BBC Lawsuit to Avoid Showing Anyone the Books

The strategic logic here is elegant in the way that only well-funded litigation can be. You file a defamation complaint demanding $10 billion in damages, a figure so audacious it…

Crime

The System Cleared Her. Then a North Dakota Mother Killed Two of Her Children.

Every safeguard was engaged. The father reported the threats. Mental health services intervened. CPS was notified. Medication was prescribed. And the system, operating exactly as designed, produced a clearance and…

Congress

Jackie Died Because We Treat Conservation Like a Luxury

Jackie, the bald eagle who put Big Bear Valley on the map, died Monday morning in an intensive care unit at the Ojai Raptor Center after three weeks of oxygen…

Congress

The Democratic Party Is Now Actively Erasing Its Own Nominees. Montana Just Said No.

The Democratic Party has arrived at a genuinely remarkable moment in its institutional evolution: it has begun to treat its own ballot line as a liability to be managed rather…

Courts

Trump’s New Birthright Citizenship Order Is a Constitutional Contempt Play

The White House is serving up a staler helping of the legal arguments the Roberts court already refused to swallow.

POTUS

Trump’s Vaccine Executive Order Trades Public Health for Conspiracy Theory

The executive order he signed directs federal health agencies to revamp the childhood vaccine schedule by spacing shots across separate medical visits and splitting the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine…

Crime

Every System Failed at Once in Philadelphia, and a Man Ended Up Dead on the Pavement

A British national from Essex, identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a member of a transnational criminal organization, was shot dead in Philadelphia after allegedly attempting to defraud…

Congress

Lauren Boebert’s Son Charged With Child Sexual Exploitation, Capping a Family Crime Spree She Enabled

Tyler Boebert, 21, eldest son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, was arrested Thursday by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office on five felony counts: three for sexual exploitation of a child and…

POTUS

When the Copyright Regime Outperforms the Constitutional One

The sound is gone. The videos play in silence. The mechanism worked. One hesitates to call that a victory for democratic norms, given that it required neither democracy nor norms…

POTUS

When a President Treats the Justice Department as a Personal Grudge Engine

A president who treats the Department of Justice as a personal grudge engine has now dragged former FBI director James Comey into the Reflecting Pool debacle, suggesting the vandalism was…