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A federal judge has ordered Florida to halt construction of President Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility for two weeks.U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams’s temporary restraining order, issued Thursday, gives some reprieve…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was finally able to admit that tariffs are indeed a tax on American importers and consumers, as Trump’s tariffs affecting virtually the entire world took effect on Thursday. “We’ve got a tariff of 50 percent on Brazil…

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is basically a Democrat, according to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.AIPAC, one of the largest lobbies in the United States, excoriated Greene in a fundraising email to its supporters Thursday for describing…

This Republican woman running for office thinks women shouldn’t run for office. Mylie Biggs, the daughter of Trump-loving Representative Andy Biggs, is running for a seat in the Arizona state Senate. And a year ago, she went on a podcast and said that she…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Thursday that Donald Trump is totally fine with his illegal takeover of Gaza. During an interview with Fox News, host Bill Hemmer pressed Netanyahu on whether the U.S. government had agreed with his plan to…

After successfully forcing Columbia and Brown to hand over granular admissions data to the administration, President Donald Trump seems to be taking aim at a bigger target: every university in the United States.Trump is expected to sign an order Thursday…

Nothing is more important in Donald Trump’s second administration than subservience and loyalty.FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the ousting of two agents at the bureau Thursday, including Brian Driscoll, who served as the acting director for the agency at…

New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani excoriated Andrew Cuomo’s recent call with President Donald Trump as a “betrayal” to the entire city.“It is at this very site that we understand the cost of this news, that former Governor Cuomo…

Unlike Sydney Sweeney, MAGA Representative Mike Collins of Georgia needed AI to generate his great jeans. Collins shared a cringey AI-generated video on X Wednesday, as a nod to the controversial American Eagle denim campaign that is being fiercely defended by…

NPR has obtained police bodycam footage of Trump Justice Department official Jared Wise calling on January 6 rioters to kill police officers.“You guys are disgusting, man. You guys are disgusting,” Wise can be seen and heard saying on the footage. “I’m…

President Donald Trump announced his plan to conduct a new U.S. census that excludes undocumented immigrants on Thursday.“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and…

Detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” are being kept in a “human-sized kennel,” according to a former corrections officer at Donald Trump’s wetland-themed concentration camp.In an exclusive interview with NBC6, Lindsey, who was identified by only her…

Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander congressional districts to give the GOP a greater advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives, potentially even preserving the party’s control of the lower chamber in next year’s midterm elections. And yet,…

The FBI has agreed to help hunt down Texas Democratic lawmakers, according to Republican Senator John Cornyn, who made the request.“I am proud to announce that Director Kash Patel has approved my request for the FBI to assist state and local law enforcement…

At least one Republican doesn’t believe in a free market, and he’s in the White House.Donald Trump took to Truth Social Thursday to demand the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.“The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign,…

Alan Dershowitz was once again denied pierogies at a farmers market. After being turned away by the vendors of the Good Pierogi stand at the West Tisbury Farmer’s Market in Martha’s Vineyard last week, Donald Trump’s former lawyer once again left the…

Vice President JD Vance made the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, raise the water level in a river to make it easier for his family to go kayaking in Ohio.The Guardian reported that Vance requested that the engineers change the output of the Little…

A resurfaced line from a 2007 New York Post report has called into question whether Donald Trump actually booted Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago when he said he did.The president has claimed that his long friendship with the pedophilic socialite corroded after…

Elected Republicans these days seem to view the gravity of their office with naked contempt—but this Wisconsin representative took it to a whole new level.Republican Representative Derrick Van Orden tweeted out a picture of a nude dude with a ski mask,…

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance flatly denied reports that they planned to hold a strategy meeting about the government’s next steps in quelling the outrage over Jeffrey Epstein. During a press conference in the Oval Office Wednesday,…

Officials in the Trump administration appear to be advancing their own agendas without informing the president.Speaking with reporters at the White House Wednesday, Donald Trump revealed that he was not aware that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had…

In fall 2024, I taught a first-year undergraduate seminar at Northwestern University named “Oil and Water in the Gulf of Mexico.” I was also the faculty adviser for the 14 students enrolled in the class, who came to our campus from all over the world. On…

Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday, President Donald Trump insisted that the current congressional map must change. “I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know,” Trump said, “and we are entitled to five more seats.”…

I am a historian of South Asia who moved to the United States in 2011. Almost immediately I was struck by how firmly the geographical distance of America from the rest of the world is mirrored in approaches to teaching and learning U.S. history. Students…

Debates about teaching and writing U.S. history are as old as arguments about the character of the United States, but one recent flash point came in the early twenty-first century, with the publication of Samuel Huntington’s book Who Are We? The Challenges…

How it careened, encircled by pokeweedand burdock, a shyer voiceuncrushed, wings making Vantablack halos overthe smallest port sips,sensuous in August tar, gooeyin humidity, like nights doing mascarain the rearview in college, clubbing in leotardsto Depeche…

The primary aim of the political right, said the president of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, in early 2024, should be “institutionalizing Trumpism.” He and his organization meant this especially for the writing, teaching, and dissemination of…

The Department of Homeland Security was caught transporting Border Patrol agents in a Penske moving van, a tactic they seem to have borrowed directly from the white nationalist militia group Patriot Front.A short video from an immigration raid Wednesday shows…

ICE facility workers trapped three Democratic representatives between the fence and the entrance as they denied their lawful attempt at entry to a detention center in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday.Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center is normally…