Category: North America

As the Trump administration makes plans to task private debt collectors with going after millions of student borrowers in default on their federal loans, officials […]

For all our billionaire social media leaders’ claims to be free speech warriors, they seem to have spent the last few days cracking down on […]

Based on the federal envelope, I thought it was a notification that I owed a penalty for missing an estimated tax payment. There was no […]

JD Vance has made getting protested in states that he and Donald Trump won in 2024 a habit. Vance went to Kansas and was protested […]

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s controversial new film “Digger” implicates us all in the climate crisis. The post A Call to Action in a World of Inaction […]

Near the nation’s capital, residents of Virginia’s Data Center Alley live among hundreds of gargantuan facilities—and feel the health toll.

In a Truth Social post Monday, President Trump made his most direct demand yet around an ongoing fixation: get “Mexico” out of New Mexico’s name. […]

The Trump administration is ramping up its efforts to flush out noncitizen voters with next month’s midterm elections approximately two weeks away. On Monday, the […]

President Donald Trump has been rolling out a stream of pledges for Alaska, including a long-hoped-for gas pipeline, broadband money, and data center help — […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a secret trip to Israel on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the country’s elections, according […]

Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, urging him to rescind a new policy […]

The (continued) failure of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations is a useful illustration in why government procurement has so many rules—it’s to stop things like […]

Yesterday there was a headline in the New York Times — Trump Offers Putin Economic Relief in Hopes That Russia Will Return the Favor. So […]

On the late afternoon of Sept. 17, a gray end-of-summer sky hung low over the cornfields of Mason, Michigan. A gangly, bespectacled young man stepped […]

Even when this White House tries to do simple, normal political things, Donald Trump has to be weird. Republicans are complaining and finger-pointing at Trump […]

Trump has been laying the groundwork for blaming Republicans if his party loses all or part of control of Congress in the midterm election. Before […]

On Monday, federal authorities announced the arrest in California of at least 11 people, and charges against 28, alleging they registered to vote as noncitizens. […]

This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th. Meet Mariel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. This […]

President Donald Trump endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection Sunday, warning Israeli voters against choosing the “wrong Leader” just nine days before the […]

Ken Paxton’s message to voters in the home stretch of his closely-contested US Senate race with Democrat James Talarico is a mystery to me. I […]