Category: North America

Not long after the second Trump administration took office, a new power center emerged in Washington under the banner of “government efficiency.” Through the Department […]

If the nation’s rules and laws were a game of rock, paper, scissors, the Constitution would beat everything. The Constitution is above it all. One […]

Reactions were mounting among legal analysts Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump‘s birthright citizenship order. The divided court ruled in a 6-3 […]

The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow Tuesday to the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, but less than an hour after the justices […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump‘s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, closing out the current session by broadly upholding the 14th Amendment’s citizenship […]

There’s a well-known scene from a 2001 episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a mob of fish mistakes a feeble old man for a bully […]

The Texas Senate race between Attorney General Ken Paxton and James Talarico looks to be in a tie, according to several voter polls published in […]

Hacks was a sharp satire of show business, but at its core it was about the creative process as a labor of love.

In 2005, when I was 11, my mother and I fled Venezuela because the government was going to arrest her for her reporting. She was […]

Two years ago, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old sociology graduate student at the City University of New York, was sitting in a tent on Columbia […]

What does it mean to love a country that does not love you back? This is a question that Black and brown Americans, and members […]

Within hours of the Supreme Court stripping 330,000 Haitian immigrants of their temporary protective status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people […]

For a number of years now, people have been telling me things I haven’t been expecting to hear. They have been sharing their relationship problems […]

JD Vance said on Friday that the U.S. wins “either way” in negotiations with Iran. “If we make the final deal, then great,” Vance told […]

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined President Donald Trump’s request to review a 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer […]

The Hind Rajab Foundation has called on the U.S. to investigate Israel’s far right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for war crimes ahead of his […]

A pair of legal experts were astounded on Monday while discussing a trap the Trump Department of Justice may have laid for itself in a […]

A political analyst called out a striking contradiction that President Donald Trump’s chief spokesperson made during an interview on Fox News. David Pakman, host of […]

SCOTUS is dumping a ton of decisions before its summer recess. Among these is the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. I like the name. Tomorrow […]

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Kekuewa Kikiloi boarded a research vessel to visit the northwestern Hawaiian […]