The Justice Department Had 36 Lawyers Fighting Corruption Full-Time.  Under Trump, It's Down to Two.  —  The Public Integrity Section is the latest casualty in the administration's attacks on Nixon-era good-government reforms.  — Copy  —  When Donald Trump took office eight months ago …

US offers financial lifeline to Argentina's Javier Milei  —  Scott Bessent proposes support package during market volatility  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said “all options” are on the table for the Trump administration to support Argentina through a bout of severe market volatility …

RFK Jr's war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids  —  The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing  —  To understand why Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking the hepatitis B vaccine, look to the rhetoric coming …

Turns out Republicans don't care about free speech after all  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🚨🚨 Subscribe to PN 🚨🚨  —  We have some shocking news: The Trump administration and the American right may not be quite …

Trump is breaking his most important promises and keeping the worst  —  When President Trump was sworn into office for his second term, he made a lot of promises to the American people.  He has broken many of them.  —  In his 2025 inaugural address, Trump declared, “Never again …

Hey, Let's Undermine America's Technology, Education and Research!  —  H-1B visas: The latest front in a campaign of destruction  —  It often seems as if Donald Trump and his minions are engaged in a systematic campaign to undermine America's preeminence in the world.

Tables turn for Democrats as they use shutdown for leverage … It's Republicans who are pushing a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution, which they say will buy time for more negotiations on full-year spending bills and possibly an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley.  I Was Wrong  —  Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump.  A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.  —  For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough.  He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta.

Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 22 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  (Editor's note: After we recorded, Trump bombed a third vessel in similarly lawless fashion.)

Charlie Kirk's massive memorial was so much more than that — it was a message to the mainstream media  —  The massive gathering for Charlie Kirk on Sunday was more than just a funeral — it was a message.  —  A 200,000-person crowd inundated the stadium inside and out, and millions around the world watched live.

Why Democrats can't match Trump's gerrymander push … “It's no doubt the case that it's harder for Democrats to do this right now than Republicans,” said All About Redistricting author and researcher Douglas Spencer, an expert in election law at the University of Colorado.

Why Trump's directive to AG Bondi should be seen as an impeachment-level scandal  —  The president isn't just being accused of trying to weaponize federal law enforcement, he's now publicly flaunting his corrupt and authoritarian efforts.  —  Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered …

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws  —  Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.  —  In one email, a Trump appointee at the Department of Housing …

The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege  —  The nation's top economic statistician was fired.  Central bank independence is being undermined.  The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.

EXCLUSIVE |  Mamdani to pull planned ABC town hall event after network suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show  —  Democratic mayoral nominee and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.  —  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani will announce Monday that he is cancelling a televised town hall …

She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She's Fighting for Those Still Inside.  —  On the evening of Feb. 11, 22-year-old Ward Sakeik sat on a plane from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Miami.  She and her husband, Taahir Shaikh, were returning from their honeymoon, but he was sitting a few rows away.

Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War  —  Henry Clay understood what was wrong with the unitary executive theory back in the 1830s.  —  “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more,” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji …

White House bullish after a long string of Supreme Court victories  —  Officials are on a winning streak at the high court, in part due to a strategy of selecting cases most likely to find favor with the conservative majority.  —  WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump's aggressive use …