Political Commentary

The president says he’s giving members of the military $1,776. It doesn’t make up for all of the damage to the VA

The president is leading a new wave of “code pink conservatives” who don’t care what happens beyond America’s borders — except when they do

The Trump administration is encouraging department higher-ups to snitch on noncitizen veterans

After my grandfather’s ship was attacked during World War II, he awaited death. It never came

The president has issued more than 2,000 pardons since taking office, many to loyalists convicted of serious crimes

The shooting of two National Guard members, allegedly by an Afghan refugee, has set off a firestorm of finger-pointing. None of it solves the real problems America faces

The Department of Government Efficiency has been eliminated, but its legacy of shafting our veterans will live for decades

Christian nationalists are teaming with Trump in a bid to torch a rule preventing churches from donating to campaigns

Democrats romped in the off-year elections earlier this month. They can’t squander the moment with the midterms looming

The president claims his administration’s cuts to the VA and care for veterans is due to fraud — despite a lack of real evidence

Remember the 5th of November

The former vice president did everything he could to expand presidential power. The current president is taking advantage

The House speaker is skirting having to defend Trump by acting like he’s unaware of major news events

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are blaming Democrats for their own antipathy toward food assistance

Republicans want to strip care from Americans so badly that they’ve shut down the government

The party has long been trying, and failing, to make inroads in the state. The 2026 midterm election could its best chance yet

The Trump administration is laying off more federal workers, while leaving active-duty military wondering whether they will be paid

How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United and turn America into a kleptocracy — and how this nightmare can be stopped

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book We Survived the Night, Julian Brave Noisecat takes us inside the negotiations that led to the historic appointment to Biden’s Cabinet

MAGA Republican Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign somehow got ahold of his N.J. gubernatorial opponent Mikie Sherrill’s military records

In 2012, the author was captured by the Syrian rebels who now lead the country. During his two years in their hands, he was tortured, witnessed executions, and came to understand the reality-warping power of their extremist beliefs

The Trump administration has service members going into hiding, a dangerous place for those at risk of suicide

Some traditional journalists complain that he’s an advocate — the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate

The Searchlight Institute plans to use a “Shark Tank-style policy-generation process” and polling to further marginalize the left

With his attacks on Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, the president is turning the First Amendment into a dead letter

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is the latest terrifying entry in an era of growing political violence

We’re given complex explanations for Trump’s rise and America’s problems — but that obscures simple explanations and even simpler solutions

Instead of trying to rein in Trump’s authoritarian urges, the justices have become his accomplices

Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs is celebrating Labor Day by cutting off its nose to spite its workforce

Twenty years after the storm hit New Orleans, the ACLU’s president examines how racial justice and infrastructure are intertwined

Zohran Mamdani wants to make New York more affordable by raising taxes on the city’s millionaires. History shows they won’t leave

The administration is spitting on trans service members, while spending millions of taxpayer money to honor the Confederacy

The Massachusetts Democrat explains why Wall Street is spending big to boost Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo

From Seattle to New Orleans, cities are protecting frontline communities while the federal government walks away

All signs point to a massive money funnel from the Department of Veteran Affairs to private health care interests

A new survey shows Americans are increasingly concerned with economic issues, and many of them are blaming the president

The Trump EPA wants to reverse the “endangerment finding” that’s allowed the government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

As Sun Day approaches, solar is surging globally — good news for the climate, and for everything else

The right-wing-dominated Supreme Court keeps greenlighting Trump’s most authoritarian actions without even bothering to give us an explanation

As Bernie Sanders campaigns against “oligarchy,” the data shows wealth concentration is benefiting shockingly few families

Trump signed a bill legalizing his own stablecoin hustle — and the Senate could soon exempt his meme coins from oversight. We could all be on the hook

The Fox News host’s latest gag is instructing conservatives to say to each other: “What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi?”

The president has taken to passing the buck when asked about the chaos his administration is unleashing on America and the world

The president backed off his plan to fire 83,000 workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs — but his administration is still getting rid of tons.

Trump’s new law strips coverage, jacks up costs, and risks 200,000 deaths

Trump’s second administration has included veterans and their families in his cruel immigration crackdown

Dignity in aging shouldn’t be reserved for the privileged few. It should be a right for all

Mamdani’s win tells elites they don’t have full control over political outcomes

A South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis brought “the world’s biggest problem to the world’s highest court”

The president’s plan will also “severely increase the risk” of nuclear accidents

On the ground and on the run from cops at the protests in California, shameful military-style birthday parties in D.C., and recalling the humanity and kindness of Rep. Hortman as America teeters on the brink

Tesla’s stock is a house of cards — and New York City retirees can’t get left holding the bag

America’s heroes have had enough of Donald Trump’s mass firings and Pete Hegseth’s diversity purge at the Pentagon

Trump’s tax bill would undo the law I helped write and pass in Colorado to regulate artificial intelligence

The president’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on pharmaceutical imports will be catastrophic. There are other options to bring back manufacturing

Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald Trump’s unconstitutional regime

The administration continues to treat the men and women who dedicated their lives to America like crap

In a world on fire, Pope Leo could bring the moral clarity and healing we need

As Trump and Hegseth push to remove transgender troops, Republicans in Congress want to make the change irreversible

Emails obtained by ProPublica reveal the president’s sinister plan to destroy the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Americans already pay far too much for prescription medications. Trump’s planned pharma tariffs will cause drug prices to skyrocket

After the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, folks across the nation are standing up and speaking out

The president owes his freedom to due process. Now, he’s shredding this foundational American right for the rest of us

The Trump Homeland Security Department turned on one of its own, as it moved to deport an active duty Coast Guard wife from a naval station in Key West

One of the House’s foremost experts on the nation’s health systems breaks down the terrifying pace at which Kennedy is working to make America sick again

At the pope’s funeral, the two presidents met one-on-one, even as the White House says its latest pro-Russia peace plan is its “final offer”

In a Time magazine cover story, Trump and his cronies reveal and revel in their Goodfellas playbook

Trump and DOGE’s dismantling of AmeriCorps will hurt its workers and disaster relief efforts, and contribute to the disintegration of our democracy

Reports are starting to show that DOGE has cost the federal government far more than it has saved. Will anyone ever be held accountable?

Lessons in economic mismanagement

The environmental group sticking to its principles should serve as model for activism under the second Trump administration

The administration wants to kick a decorated Iraq War veteran with a criminal conviction out of the country

Frustrated voters keep telling Democrats to show their teeth. Party leaders like Chuck Schumer have been too slow in getting the message

Ezra Klein’s new book and an oligarch-funded movement aims to kill off the Democratic Party’s populist uprising

The president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are expected to lead to higher prices on everyday goods. He doesn’t seem to care

The Trump administration is trading decency and democracy for cruelty and spectacle. Our protectors will pay for it

The Trump administration inadvertently shared its attack plans with a journalist, but it didn’t share its strategy for victory — because it doesn’t have one

Trump keeps shredding the workforce, creating a brain drain of veterans from the federal and foreign service. Their experience can’t be replaced

Trump and lawmakers are trying to normalize a risky type of crypto that could harm more people when the next bubble bursts

With the way our country is headed, I’m worried about my sisters on the outside

The Pentagon’s Arlington National Cemetery website deleted Black, Latino, and women webpage memorials as part of Trump and Hegseth’s diversity purge

For Steve Davis, Musk’s right-hand man at DOGE, life has always been a game — but Musk’s game increases inefficiency and makes people’s lives worse

The president is treating America’s neighbor to the north like an adversary. Don’t be like the president

A longtime Capitol Hill staffer is stunned by the degree to which America’s politicians have given away their power to Trump and Musk

After the president’s personal lawyers took over the Justice Department, they fired Liz Oyer. She writes about how Trump’s DOJ is silencing dissent

 As Trump, Musk, and VA Secretary Doug Collins get ready to fire 80,000 VA employees this summer, veterans wonder what’s next

Trump has turned immigration into political theater. His opposition’s failure to offer any real vision keeps the show running

Americans would never accept another nation threatening our country the way Trump insists on doing with Canada

In his address to Congress, Trump said servicemembers “love being in our military again” — as he continued his attacks on veterans’ jobs and benefits

President Trump and Elon Musk’s push to eliminate diversity and inclusion practices feels like an effort to delegitimize Black people

Veterans are still losing their jobs and benefits as Elon Musk disassembles the federal government

Welcome to the Teapot Thunderdome

The protests erupting across the country hit the billionaire in the only place he can feel it

Musk, Trump, and RFK Jr.’s cuts to the CDC have halted 9/11 health care for Ground Zero workers

Trump and Musk’s DOGE project could close a critical Vet Center in New Mexico, saving taxpayers nothing

The battle for America’s future won’t just be won or lost at the ballot box, but on screens, at concert venues, and at cultural institutions

In a late-night purge, seven federal agencies carried out mass layoffs — 1,000 at the VA alone, the nation’s largest employer of military veterans

The president’s new executive order gives Musk and DOGE carte blanche and sets limits on hiring veterans and transitioning active duty military personnel

The deal to spring Eric Adams caps a broad effort to functionally legalize bribery and covert foreign influence. We’re all going to pay for it