The deportation of military family members is not a scandal in the journalistic sense, a discrete event with a smoking gun and a culpable official. It is something more durable:…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
A grand jury in Los Angeles County has done what the system too often fails to do: moved swiftly toward accountability. On Wednesday, prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging 32-year-old Nick…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Josh Kushner and Bob Iger just agreed to buy the Los Angeles Lakers for $12.5 billion. That is the most expensive sports team acquisition in history. Let that number sit…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
When the threat was real enough to hide the commander in chief in a food truck, it was real enough to ground the plane. Instead, Trump's Secret Service detail sent…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Ten House members felled in their own primaries this cycle, seven Democrats and three Republicans, plus two Republican senators for good measure, and the preferred adjective is 'unusually high.' It…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the Trump administration to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood.
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
A federal judge has issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Department of Justice's plan to force the USPS to deny mail-in ballots, marking a significant legal victory in the fight…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Xavier Becerra, the Democratic nominee for California governor, has recommended that state attorneys general settle the Paramount-WBD antitrust lawsuit before it goes to trial, citing the threat of the company…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
Karoline Leavitt is leaving. That is the headline. But the story underneath it is about power, who wields it casually, and who absorbs the cost.
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hurry up and let it implement sweeping restrictions on mail voting that President Donald Trump is attempting to impose by…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
