The company that sells the country its eyes just found out its own address book was public: 300,000 surveillance devices, each one pinned to a location, from data the company itself was leaking. "Thes…
The War Department added a body to its own ledger, told almost no one, and is now showing the one number that makes the war look the least bad. "They want to tell you that the war is going fine, and t…
On Thursday, a judge appointed by Donald Trump ordered the White House to hand back three newsrooms' press badges, and the White House spent most of the day holding onto them, on the day Xi Jinping wa…
The president told his party to cheat, a retired judge published the mechanism for the coup, and the fate of the 120th Congress may now rest on one of the least known jobs in Washington: clerk of the …
The states sued to stop the merger that would hand Hollywood to one family, and now the owner of the soon-to-be-merged empire is asking Elon Musk to write the check. "This settlement is not a vote of …
The U.S. government filed a federal court brief saying the First Amendment is a courtesy the president extends to reporters he likes. "Access to the White House is a privilege, not a right." — DOJ Sen…
One number on a diesel pump is now worth more to the Republican Party than the president of the United States, and everyone in the room knows it. "It's a referendum on our government. [Trump] is the h…
The FBI had a 50-page map to corruption in Congress. Then the administration purged everyone who could read it, weeks before the senator it implored went back on the ballot. "I was fooled and foolish …
The government has a new way of making people vanish: it simply stops saying where they are. "To me, it's just another iteration of disappearing people. Why would we do that in the United States of Am…