Category: North America

Dubbed the “Nostradamus” of predicting presidential election results by using his famous “Keys to the White House,” historian Allan Lichtman will debut a different set […]

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against […]

Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with […]

The United States has long endeavored to undermine the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Donald Trump has taken the assault to a new […]

The Trump administration has announced it will roll out a sweeping sanctions regime against Iran over the coming weeks, with the goal of “sever[ing] every […]

On July 27, 2026, the Solicitor General submitted an emergency application in Trump v. California. This case concerns proposed regulations for mail-in ballots. The government […]

President Donald Trump seems to have dispatched his “secret weapon” in hopes of staving off the one thing he is terrified of happening, according to […]

The Supreme Court undermined its own prior rulings to give President Donald Trump a win on his mail-in ballot executive order, GOP legal expert Ben […]

Can you remember when Republicans called themselves the “Party of Ideas”? That started back in the 1970s, I believe, and fizzled out sometimes in the […]

On Monday, the Supreme Court approved the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to enact a nationwide crackdown on mail-in voting via an executive order. It’s still […]

His alliance with Vladimir Putin, a dictator every former president in modern times has understood to be a dangerous enemy of American democracy, is treasonous.  […]

For months, Palestinian journalist Majahed Bani Mfleh was held in Israeli administrative detention without charges and subjected to brutal physical violence. He’s far from the […]

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford tore into President Donald Trump on Monday as a bully, a dictator, and a man unfit to give lessons on economics. […]

Before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could flee reporters after announcing plans for an economic war on Iran, one reporter called him out over his “D-Day” […]

Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Josh Chafetz, professor at Georgetown Law, discuss how Supreme Court rulings around the “legislative veto” laid the groundwork for expanded executive […]

In his recent book “This is the Plan,” the former chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Wikler dates the origins of today’s politics to […]

The Republican theory of the midterm election is that even though Americans are showing historic levels of anger at Republicans and the current president, the […]

Pete Hegseth may be the most hated man in Washington. According to a recent polling analysis by CNN’s Harry Enten, the defense secretary’s approval ratings […]