The White House knew that conducting ICE raids in the heart of Los Angeles—where 40 percent of the population is Latino and one in 10 is undocumented—would create a stir. Masked ICE agents in unmarked cars grabbed people at work and at immigration offices, chasing a daily quota that,...
Among the multitude of horrors tucked into Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is a measure that lifts a $200 tax on gun silencers, while ending background checks and registration requirements for their purchase. If enacted, the impact of the SHUSH (Silencers Help Us Save Hearing) Act is more sociological than...
I’m wishing Joe Biden and his family the strength they’ll need after the former president’s cancer diagnosis—and, like many others, I’m also wondering why his condition wasn’t caught sooner. A similar question could be asked of Bill Clinton: Medical tests near the end of Clinton’s presidency showed elevated levels...
Trump talks big, but he always backs down. He calls it the art of the deal, but billionaire’s bible the Wall Street Journal, this week a paper owned by his frenemy Rupert Murdoch no less, calls the president’s latest climbdown, “The Great Tariff Rollback.” The Journal‘s finger-pointing headline also...
The budget-cutters called astrophysicist Dr. Kartik Sheth and his colleagues in the chief scientist’s suite at NASA “low-hanging fruit,” which meant they were among the first to lose their jobs after President Trump signed a raft of executive orders to downsize the federal government. Sheth still has a hard...
The resignation of the executive producer of one of the most venerated news shows in the United States marks yet another notch in MAGA’s tightening belt. It won’t be the last, with President Trump on the warpath and media conglomerates cowering to avoid retribution. More ominously, it shows that...
We treated it like a joke, another grandiose plan promoted by Donald Trump that would go nowhere. But it turns out he was serious when he stood at Mount Rushmore in July 2020 to fervently propose “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans...
It’s not new, this scrubbing of history to make America look like how Donald Trump imagines it should look. In just the first few months of his second term in office, Trump and his administration have attacked diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration,...
