The Heritage Foundation sent a fundraising email boasting that the blueprint they wrote for an authoritarian presidency has been more than half completed. The president who enacted it still acts surpr…
The Trump administration has built a detention system that kills people and then stopped counting the dead. "Your Administration either failed to account for this predictable result or proceeded despi…
tags: trump, africa, health, data The United States is trading lifesaving medicine for access to the private medical records of millions of Africans, and the countries have no real choice but to say y…
The FBI is calling arrested protesters at their homes and asking them to spy on their friends. "They were asking me to inform." — John Mark Rozendaal, a cellist who played at Delaney Hall ICE protests…
Eight people convicted of terrorism for showing up to an ICE facility on the Fourth of July go before a federal judge today, with some facing decades behind bars for wearing black and holding a megaph…
Congress gave the president a check for foreign aid, he signed it, and then his administration refused to cash it. "It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress." — …
trump, colombia, elections, latin america A US president publicly endorses a foreign candidate who represents paramilitary clients, then celebrates his narrow victory as though it were a personal win.…
The president spent $14.7 million painting a public pool his favorite shade of blue, then tried to arrest citizens for swimming in the green algae that grew in it. "These are very serious crimes havin…
For the first time in American history, a sitting president is asking a federal bank regulator to give his private cryptocurrency company the implicit backing of the U.S. government. "For the first ti…