Trump Aide Ran a Year on No Security Check
A single offhand sentence about a 35-year-old aide set off a White House meltdown, and the fallout reveals a president who cannot seem to tell the difference between a job description and a comfort ob…
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Starbucks Workers United Calls a Boycott
A five-year fight to get a coffee giant to the bargaining table has just become a fight to keep customers away. "It is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers." — …
Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Mail Voting Order
The Supreme Court didn't rule that the president can rig the election. It just ruled that the courts have to wait to be allowed to stop him. "This ruling violates well-established precedents concernin…
Big Oil Is Raking In Trump's War Windfall
The war Trump's own voters are deserting is, it turns out, a boom time for the men who already own the country's refineries. "There is a massive transfer of wealth occurring as billions around the wor…
Canada Declares Economic War on Trump
For the first time in decades, Canada's prime minister has told his own people that he is at war, and that the country he leads will not crawl back to the old deal. "You're at war when you get attacke…
Trump Wants Data Centers Everywhere But Not Near Mar-a-Lago
A president insists every community should want a data center, even as his own regulator quietly rewrites the rules so those communities never get to find out one is coming. "Trump thinks that every c…
US Sanctions the ICC’s President. Rights Groups Sue
An American president declares a "national emergency" over a court ruling against one of his allies, and then freezes the bank accounts of the judge who presides over that court. "The US government's …
Bessent Promises to Break Iran, Then Asks Why
The Treasury Secretary spent the weekend promising to break a country. Then, at the press conference where he actually did it, he asked why he should. "Why would I want to blow up the global financial…
The Guard Members Are Ashamed of D.C.
The soldiers the president sent to his own capital to make it safe are now the ones telling the country they do not want to be there. "I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left…