Crime

A Republican Power Broker Spent 45 Years in Office and 14 Trips to Prague Exploiting Children. The System Let Him.

Ray Holmberg, North Dakota's longest-serving state senator, was sentenced to ten years for 14 trips to a Prague brothel where he paid for sex with boys as young as 12,…

POTUS

The Only Guardrail Still Standing Is a Pop Star’s Copyright Lawyer

In the span of three weeks, the Trump administration has forced out the heads of the Office of Government Ethics and the Office of Special Counsel, which processes whistleblower complaints…

Congress

Socialists Are Winning Because They Actually Govern for Working People

The establishment Democratic playbook is simple: tell people things are basically fine, tweak a regulation or two, collect the checks, and wonder why nobody shows up to vote. Meanwhile, Democratic…

Congress

Fetterman Refuses to Endorse El-Sayed, Dares Him to Keep Campaigning With Hasan Piker

Sen. John Fetterman has refused to endorse Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, warning that the candidate's alliance with far-left streamer Hasan Piker and opposition to military aid for Israel…

Congress

AOC’s Egg-Freezing Livestream Is Not a Stunt. It’s a Structural Diagnosis.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's decision to freeze her eggs on Instagram Live is not a performative stunt, but a rational response to a system that has already criminalized and politicized female…

POTUS

Trump Will End the War on His Schedule, Not on the Strait’s

President Trump has reportedly told his aides he is willing to end the military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, a move that contradicts…

POTUS

The First Lady as Institutional Ghost: What Melania’s Absence Actually Measures

The 38 days she has been seen in the first seven months of 2026, the 29 speeches she has delivered across the entirety of MAGA 2.0, the five public appearances…

Courts

Federal Judge Slaps Down Trump’s Illegal War on Blind Entrepreneurs

A federal judge has ruled that Education Secretary Linda McMahon broke the law when she tried to gut the Randolph-Sheppard Act, the 1936 statute that guarantees blind entrepreneurs priority to…

Crime

A 22-Foot Boat, Fourteen Souls, and the Regulatory Vacuum That Drowned Them

Fourteen people climbed aboard a recreational powerboat, a vessel whose rated capacity sits around ten and whose safe passenger load in that location, according to a well-placed source who spoke…

Crime

Two Babies Are Dead in Mandan Because Every System That Was Supposed to Protect Them Chose Not To

A father's desperate warnings to mental health and child protection services were ignored, leaving a mother with a history of violent ideation to kill two of her children while the…