Navigating Iran crisis, Trump relies on experience over star power  —  Gabbard, Hegseth outside the inner circle as president weighs military actions against Iran.  —  Summary55  —  As President-elect Donald Trump assembled his core national security team early this year …

The Supreme Court Fails to See Transgender Teens  —  Imagine you are a transgender teenager.  Don't ask me how you know that you are transgender: That question is no more appropriate or relevant than asking people how they know that they are gay or Jewish or Black.  Maybe you've always known.

Parsing ICE's mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims  —  ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.  —  Last month, I wrote a column questioning why Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were increasingly disguising their identities as they conducted sweeps and arrests.

Marco Rubio, Velociraptor  —  Donald Trump never met a war he wouldn't pretend he could easily solve, but it seems he's getting tired of talking about only the current ones.  Here he was yesterday rolling back the clock: “I wonder if—you know, the Civil War, it always seemed to me maybe …

Musk Savages ‘Snake’ Trump Aide as Their White House Feud Erupts  —  VENOMOUS WORDS  —  Sergio Gor has been blamed in part for the explosive breakdown in the alliance between the president and his former “First Buddy.”  —  Elon Musk publicly ripped into a top White House aide who fueled his falling out with President Donald Trump.

Republicans Threaten a Hospital Apocalypse  —  Experts warn of potentially hundreds of hospital closures, which would degrade the entire medical system. … As we at the Prospect have reported, while the Senate's version of the Republican budget reconciliation bill was widely expected …

Donald Trump Rages At Reporter Who Refuses To Stick To ‘Positive’ Questions  —  The president launched a trademark diatribe in response to a line of questioning he didn't particularly like.  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again ripped a reporter to their face …

The Subway Is Not Scary  —  In 2014, New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro (who would go on to become one of the paper's superstars as host of its podcast “The Daily") posted this tweet:  —  After receiving a good deal of ridicule, Barbaro deleted the tweet.  The nervous sentiment he expressed, however, lives on.

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation  —  As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.  —  Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.

Is Mike Lee Shitposting His Way Out of Congress?  —  Never Tweet  —  WHEN SEN. MIKE LEE (R-Utah) took to social media to spread wild, nakedly partisan theories about the Minnesota shootings that left a Democratic state representative and her husband dead, national Democrats were horrified.

Trump delays the TikTok ban once again  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.

White British — the two words toxifying politics  —  Serious social issues, perceived and real, will not be fixed by supercharging racial grievance  —  Mainstream political discourse has found two words seeping in: “white British”.  The term is increasingly used to create a narrative of victimhood …

San Diego Sector Border Patrol uncovers sophisticated cross-border drug smuggling tunnel  —  SAN DIEGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents have uncovered and disabled a large-scale narcotics smuggling tunnel linking Tijuana to the San Diego area.  The uncompleted tunnel extended more than 1,000 feet inside …

Knife-Wielding Illegal Alien Charged With Attempted Murder After Allegedly Attacking Trump Attorney in NY  —  A United States Attorney for New York was chased with a knife by an illegal immigrant outside a hotel in Albany, New York, security camera footage shows.

Hegseth Recommended a ‘Passive Approach’ to Honoring Juneteenth  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requested the Pentagon go light on commemorating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery … Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, after the Civil War ended, when Union soldiers arrived …

As Trump pledges mass deportation, he's creating more undocumented people  —  More than 1 million people who were granted legal entry to the country under different programs are now being considered illegally here by the Trump administration.  —  Florndjie Camey, 31, had gone from a bleak future …

Appeals court says DOJ cannot represent Trump in appeal of E. Jean Carroll case  —  A jury last year ordered Trump to pay the columnist $83 million in damages.  —  President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the Oval Office of the White House as members of Italian soccer club Juventus pay a visit in Washington, June 18, 2025.

Black churches push back against Trump-fueled anti-DEI wave  —  Black churches have played an integral part in fighting for civil rights.  Black leaders say it should come as no surprise the church is taking the lead on preserving DEI.  —  Black church leaders are ramping up the pressure …

Bernie Sanders dives into a key House battleground Trump carried in 2024 with a new endorsement  —  Democrat Rebecca Cooke is running against GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden again after she lost by less than 3 points in western Wisconsin even as Trump won the district by 7 last year.