The Trump administration summoned the Vatican's ambassador to the Pentagon in January and, according to Vatican officials, invoked a 700-year-old warning about what happens to uncooperative popes. Pope Leo XIV spent the next three months proving it hadn't worked.
The United States and Iran have been locked in hostility for nearly seventy years. American politicians treat that hostility as a given — a fact of nature, like weather. But it isn't. It has a beginning. And that beginning is a decision America made, in secret, in 1953, that changed everything.
After a Supreme Court Loss, a New Tariff Appears On February 20, the Supreme Court delivered a major ruling on U.S. trade policy, finding that the administration could not rely on emergency-powers law to impose sweeping global tariffs because Congress had never clearly granted that authority. Within hours of
In January 2026, two people — Alex Pretti and Renée Good — were killed during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In Pretti’s case, the Hennepin County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Investigative reporting later identified the Customs and Border Protection agents who fired the fatal shots. These deaths
How peaceful protest — and undeniable brutality — are starting to change minds For weeks, Minnesota has been at the center of something the Trump administration hoped to avoid: sustained, peaceful protest colliding with images and facts that are hard to explain away. Federal immigration enforcement has long been controversial. What’s
This week, former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time since the Justice Department dropped its federal cases against President Donald Trump following his 2024 election victory. The hearing was predictably combative. Republicans framed Smith as a political actor. Democrats framed the moment
When most people hear the word “warrant,” they assume one thing: a judge reviewed the case and gave the government permission to act. That’s how warrants work in the criminal justice system. It’s also how the Constitution is supposed to protect people — especially in their homes. But a
How Broken Immigration Law Turned Civil Enforcement Into Paramilitary Policing America’s immigration debate is often framed as a fight between compassion and enforcement. That framing misses the real problem. What we are witnessing today is not the natural outcome of strict law enforcement—it is the predictable result of
On January 6, 2021, American democracy was meant to break. The United States Capitol had been breached. Windows were smashed. Lawmakers fled through hallways and tunnels. Police officers were beaten. A mob, driven by false claims of a stolen election, roamed the seat of government looking for leverage, trophies, and
Early on January 3, 2026, the United States launched a direct military attack on Venezuela, striking targets in and around Caracas and carrying out a special operations raid that, according to U.S. officials, resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. According to
Why This Argument Keeps Coming Back Part VI of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” Every generation believes its problems are new. The technology changes. The vocabulary shifts. The faces in power rotate. But the underlying argument—about markets, rules, and restraint—keeps resurfacing for the same reason: When the
Same Dynamics, New Technology Part V of “Why the New Deal Still Matters” History rarely repeats itself exactly. It adapts. The modern American economy does not look like the 1920s. We have more technology, more data, more global integration, and far more complex financial systems. But beneath those differences, the