Trump is halfway to making America a police state  —  The president's refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point  —  At around noon on April 14 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government.  Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data  —  In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.

Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?  —  The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.  —  Meet The Authors … In multiple filings, the government has conceded that it wrongfully removed Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia …

State Terror  —  Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.  —  This is the beginning …

Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power  —  Greetings and welcome to this week's midair performance of the Carnival of Fools!  Like a prestige subscription-service drama, our story resumes from a potent cliff-hanger: Last week, Donald Trump had invoked the laws of cartoon physics …

US Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay Away … The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products, adding to a growing list of headwinds keeping recession risk elevated.

This Tax Day, an IRS in Crisis  —  Every year during tax season, please spare a thought for the IRS.  It is our least loved agency, but one of our most important.  Last year, I noted how an IRS modernization effort was making real progress in terms of improved service quality.

Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Statement Regarding Harvard University  —  Today, the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism released the following statement:  —  “Harvard's statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's …

The Vibe Shifts Against the Right  —  Alex Kaschuta's podcast, “Subversive,” used to be a node in the network between weird right-wing internet subcultures and mainstream conservatism.  She hosted men's rights activists and purveyors of “scientific” racism, neo-reactionary online personalities …

JD Vance: My message to Europe America doesn't want a vassal continent  —  “It's not good for Europe to be the permanent security vassal of the United States.”  So says JD Vance during a phone conversation with UnHerd on Monday, his first major interview with a European outlet since taking office as Vice President.

Inside Trump's Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations … At the Department of Health and Human Services, Trump administration officials want to reverse a regulation that has required nursing homes to have more medical staff on duty.  —  At the Mine Safety and Health Administration …

Why President Trump isn't signing many laws … Trump and Republican congressional leaders often claim his new administration has been the most productive in recent memory.  —  Except when it comes to passing laws.  —  Trump has signed fewer bills into law at this point in his presidency …

Levin and Martinez express support for Harvard amid funding fight with Trump administration  —  University president Jonathan Levin '94 and Provost Jenny Martinez expressed support for Harvard after its president Alan Garber M.D. '83 — a Stanford Medicine professor emeritus …

China orders its airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets, report says  —  The Chinese government has told the country's domestic airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets as a trade war between the world's two largest economies escalates, Bloomberg News reports.

Kamala Harris for governor?  Poll shows how California voters feel about the idea.  —  California's Democratic voters cheer the potential of Harris for governor, but warning signs are lurking.  —  Political influencers in California are greeting Kamala Harris' potential bid for governor with a shrug …

US Derails G-7 Condemnation of Russian Missile Strike on Ukraine  —  The US has told Group of Seven allies it won't endorse a statement condemning Russia's deadliest attack on Ukraine this year because it wants to keep negotiations with Moscow on track.  —  Russia fired two short-range …

Tariff carve-outs underscore weak US position in China trade war: ‘This is going to get really ugly’  —  With its electronics exceptions, the United States has demonstrated that it is more willing to bend than the Chinese.  —  The White House says it has the upper hand in its trade war with China.

Exclusive: A Stronger Playbook For House Resistance  —  An internal memo shows Senate Democrats aren't the only ones who can gum up the works.  —  ∙ Paid  —  We stand perilously close to a point of no return, where mass action is the only form of opposition that might save the country.

As Trump pursues mass deportation, his businesses again seek foreign workers  —  While President Donald Trump and his administration reiterate the need to “hire American” and crack down on both documented and undocumented immigrants alike, his company is again seeking seasonal foreign workers …

North Carolina Supreme Court throws out hundreds of ballots based on flawed data  —  This is a special collaboration between Popular Information and Anderson Alerts, a newsletter about North Carolina politics.  —  Josiah Young was born and raised in North Carolina.

Jeffries backs stock trading ban after Greene buys market dip  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday backed a stock trading ban for sitting members of Congress, after ripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for reportedly profiting off market fluctuations during President Trump's tariff roller-coaster.

DOGE targets Brookfield Zoo  —  Happy Tuesday, Illinois.  Spring is here.  It's Tax Day.  —  TOP TALKER  —  WHAT A ZOO: The White House's Department of Government Efficiency office has targeted a behavioral diversity program to be cut from Brookfield Zoo.

She was chatting with friends in a Lyft.  Then someone texted her what they said  —  Ride-sharing company says incident was not part of audio recording pilot it's testing in some U.S. cities  —  Anvi Ahuja noticed a “freaky” new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting …

‘Home Alone 2’ director says Donald Trump cameo has ‘become this curse’  —  San Francisco filmmaker Chris Columbus said Donald Trump's cameo in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” more than 30 years ago has been “an albatross for me” and “wishes it was gone.”  —  “I can't cut it,” …

China fumes ‘peasants in the US’ will suffer as country issues stark warning on Trump's ‘shameless’ tariff war  —  A top Chinese official warned Tuesday that President Trump's “extremely shameless” tariff war would backfire soon — leaving “those peasants in the US” wailing.