Category: Politics

The Department of Justice is squeezing Big Law. Hard. On Friday, federal prosecutors dropped a stack of subpoenas in a Washington federal court, targeting 14 major law firms. These firms either felt the wrath of Donald Trump’s executive orders last year or cut backroom deals to dodge them. Now, the feds want their files. The […]

Tehran is playing its next card. If the Americans touch Iran’s power grid, the Red Sea goes dark. Three sources confirmed that Iran has instructed Yemen’s Houthi rebels to stand ready to shut down the Bab el-Mandeb strait, a move that would instantly strangle what is left of global energy shipping. It is a simple […]

John Fetterman is a man without a country. Or at least, a politician without a party that actually wants him. A fresh Quinnipiac University poll dropped a bomb on Pennsylvania politics, revealing that 52 percent of voters in the state want the hoodie-wearing junior senator to ditch the Democratic Party. It is a bizarre consensus. […]

Here we go again. Congress is once more flirting with the idea of locking the clocks and ending our biannual ritual of temporal whiplash. It sounds great on paper. No more groggy mornings in March, no more pitch-black afternoons in November. But before we celebrate the death of “falling back,” we need a quick history […]

Donald Trump is at it again. This time, he wants the government to yank the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC. Why? Because they didn’t air his latest prime-time rant. It is a classic Trump move, but the Federal Communications Commission isn’t biting. Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat on the FCC, called the threat exactly […]

Chuck Schumer has mastered the art of the Washington pivot. Confronted by reporters eager for his take on the latest sleaze dragging down his caucus, the Senate Minority Leader did what any self-respecting partisan boss does. He changed the subject. Schumer brushed off questions about Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego’s sex life, choosing instead to hype […]

The Senate is a ghost town of accountability. Mitch McConnell is missing. Again. And the Republican ranks are starting to crack under the pressure of the silence. Tommy Tuberville wants answers. The Alabama Republican is making noise, demanding to know why the Senate Minority Leader has vanished from the Capitol. He wants a timeline. He […]

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is empty again. Looking down from the Washington Monument this week, the view is grim. That “American flag blue” liner Donald Trump bragged about this spring? It is gone. In its place lies a dull, washed-out gray. Workers have cleared the holiday debris, but the prestige is entirely washed out. […]

John Fetterman is drawing a line in the sand. The Pennsylvania senator insists he has no immediate plans to ditch the Democratic Party, but he made one thing clear on Wednesday: if his colleagues officially abandon Israel, he is gone. To Fetterman, this is not a policy debate. It is a matter of basic moral […]

They fled on plywood and prayers. Now, more than 500 Rohingya refugees are feared dead after two overcrowded vessels reportedly went under in the treacherous waters of the Bay of Bengal. It is the same old story. Desperation meets a indifferent ocean. According to preliminary reports from the UN refugee agency and the International Organization […]