POTUS

Trump’s Vaccine Order Demands Shots That Haven’t Existed in 50 Years

President Trump's executive order to break the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine into three separate injections is a textbook case of policy failure, simultaneously a public health catastrophe and a logistical impossibility.

Money

The Escape Hatch Is Not a Policy

The fortress confesses what these men will not say out loud. They have already lost the only stronghold that ever held, which is the goodwill of the people on the…

Congress

El-Sayed Challenges Rogers to Tackle Football, and the Republic Continues Its Long Slide Into Spectacle

Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has challenged his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, to a game of tackle football in lieu of five debates, a move that treats…

Congress

ICE Drew a Gun on a U.S. Citizen for Yelling. DHS Called Her the Threat.

A licensed counselor in Northern Virginia was boxed into her car by masked ICE agents and had a firearm pointed through her window for yelling obscenities from the driver's seat.…

Courts

Charlie Kirk’s Accused Shooter Argues Against Death Penalty Because Bullet Hit Only Its Target

Tyler Robinson's defense team is arguing he should not face the death penalty because the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk 'traveled above, not through, the crowd' of several thousand people,…

POTUS

When Career Prosecutors Walk Away, the Institution Is the Story

When career prosecutors refuse to sign off on a politically motivated dismissal, they are not merely resigning; they are triggering the institutional immune system. But when political appointees occupy every…

Money

Trump’s Latest Target: Disabled Adults Whose Only Crime Is Living at Home

The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would claw back the imputed value of a disabled adult's bedroom from their SSI check, effectively penalizing them for living with their…

POTUS

The State Deports Its Own Soldiers’ Families, and Calls It Policy

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:…

Crime

Nick Reiner Indicted on Lying-in-Wait Murder Charges in Parents’ Deaths

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…

Money

Josh Kushner Buys the Lakers for Record $12.5 Billion After FIFA Deal Collapsed

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…