The Birthright Con  —  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the case that will decide the fate of the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.  —  On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order that tried …

Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 20901 et seq.), the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 …

The Costs of a Political Science-Free Foreign Policy  —  What the Trump administration's confusion over “regime change” means.  —  ∙ Paid  —  As Gulf War Three continues apace, it is hard to see where and how how the United States is winning.  According to the Wall Street Journal's Alexander Ward …

U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight  —  Gulf state begins effort to persuade U.S. and others to open waterway by any means necessary  —  The United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, Arab officials said …

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato  —  Exclusive: US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and claims UK does not even have a navy  —  Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran.

‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported  —  The top official in charge of the federal government's disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he's experienced “teleportation” - an experience he insists was real …

Trump's mixed messages on Iran perplex his own team  —  President Trump isn't just befuddling foreign leaders and financial markets with his mixed signals on Iran.  Advisers who speak regularly with the president tell Axios they're just as uncertain. … Then the cycle restarts without any lasting clarity.

Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go  —  Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shiite Muslims from southern towns, the leaders said.  —  When Israel and Hezbollah last went to war two years ago …

Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents  —  EXCLUSIVE — The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees …

On the Original Legal Meaning of “Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof”  —  There has been some originalist debate of late about the proper reading of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  The fate of the Trump administration's executive order excluding new categories of individuals …

CNN Poll: Trump's approval rating on the economy hits a new low  —  Donald Trump Election polls Corporate news US shutdown  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating for handling the economy has fallen to a new career low of 31%, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS …

Big tech is coming for the midterms  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🤖 Subscribe to PN 🤖  —  It wasn't that long ago that the prevailing view in Silicon Valley was that politics is both grubby and boring, not worth the time and money …

U.S. Plans Military Expansion in Greenland  —  The Pentagon is in talks with Denmark for access to three more areas on the Arctic island.  Several Greenlanders said they didn't like the idea.  —  The American military is intensifying efforts to secure greater access to Greenland …

In South Dakota, Neighbors Feel Sorry for Kristi Noem's Husband  —  In the tiny town of Castlewood, S.D., where everyone knows the Noems, the prevailing sense was that people can't help but feel bad for Bryon Noem after a tabloid photo leak.  —  That couldn't be him, could it?  —  The cartoonishly large breasts.

How China hopes to win from the war  —  Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake  —  Going to war against Iran promised to change the Middle East by weakening a villainous regime and thwarting its nuclear ambitions.  To its most bullish supporters, the war would also change the world by cowing an ascendant China.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Not the Idiot You Think She Is  —  It is tempting to think that Ketanji Brown-Jackson is an idiot.  —  I sincerely doubt that this is the case.  —  A lot of people have been noticing that even her liberal colleagues are exasperated with Jackson …

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers  —  How MAGA influencers became part of the mass deportation campaign.  —  As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed Eydarus was out with his mom, shoveling snow.

Astroturf and selective outrage: The real story behind ‘No Kings’  —  Organizers of last weekend's “No Kings” protests claimed eight to nine million participants across more than 3,300 events.  It was billed as the largest single-day protest in American history.

Lawmakers jump into prediction market fight  —  IN TODAY'S EDITION:  — Key panels eye prediction market action  — Congress to Trump: We're staying in recess  — Hill staffers brace for 'boss's TMZ moment'  —  With help from Jasper Goodman and Declan Harty

Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War  —  U.S. commanders have kept many troops away from bases in the region to protect them from Iran's ballistic missile attacks.  —  The U.S. military's decision to move troops away from bases under Iranian attack to hotels …