When a man who sat across the desk from Donald Trump in the Oval Office, who navigated the Mueller investigation from inside the West Wing, looks at a White House…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Trump can pardon his cronies. He cannot pardon their bank accounts. Forfeiture and seizure laws, the same ones prosecutors use to strip drug traffickers of their yachts and real estate,…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Hunter Biden has moved beyond the comfortable framing of Trump as a symptom, declaring him the singular existential threat to the globe and the pathogen that turned a local epidemic…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
The data is unambiguous. Homicides peaked in 2021 at 26,031 nationwide, according to the CDC. By 2024, they had fallen to 20,162, roughly the pre-pandemic level. Jeff Asher, the crime…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Trump sat for an interview with Newsmax's Wayne Allen Root just after midnight Tuesday, and Root handed him the playbook. You have the right, Root said, to declare a national…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Six months. That is how long Donald Trump has been launching America's long-range missiles and interceptors at Iran in a war of choice that nobody voted for, nobody asked for,…
Mars Vega-Kaplan
Funny how the whole Washington press corps suddenly remembers Bill Clinton's decoy plane ride the moment Donald Trump does the same thing. Funny how the difference between a 'security precaution'…
Buck Buckhorn
President Donald Trump signaled his openness to declaring a national emergency ahead of November's midterms, suggesting he could embrace MAGA media figures' pitch of a federal takeover of elections.
Buck Buckhorn
The path from democracy is much shorter than the path to it. And we are sprinting down it.
Mars Vega-Kaplan
President Trump has nominated Dennis Kirk, a co-author of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 manifesto, to serve as inspector general of the Interior Department, the office tasked with investigating the…
Dr. Sebastian Thorne-Whitfield
