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Trump Still Hasn’t Produced Plans to Make IVF More Accessible

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Monday marked 90 days from February 18—the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order that falsely claimed to fulfill a campaign promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF. In reality, all the executive order actually did was commission a relatively low-level Trump administration official to submit to the president […]

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Does Kristi Noem Even Know What Habeas Corpus Is?

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Days after the Trump administration threatened to attempt to suspend habeas corpus in an effort to bulldoze due process protections for its mass deportation campaign, one key Cabinet member seems a bit confused about the scheme. “What is habeas corpus?” Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire asked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a committee […]

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For Trump, le Grift, C’est Moi

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. The only time I ever worked on a political campaign, decades ago, I […]

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Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism

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In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open. That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A […]

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A Gun Deemed Too Dangerous for Cops, but Fine for Civilians

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This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. Shortly after dark one day in September 2022, police officers Yang Lee and Charles Laskey-Castle arrived on Milwaukee’s west side to investigate a car abandoned on the sidewalk. Lee knelt to examine […]

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Trump’s Pick to Lead Workplace Safety Agency Will Derail Heat Protections, Advocates Fear

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the US prepares for what could be another record-breaking hot summer, Donald Trump and his pick to lead the nation’s workplace safety agency are expected to derail the creation of the nation’s first-ever federal labor protections from extreme heat. Trump in February nominated David […]

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Trump Is Furious That His Tariffs Are Doing Exactly What Economists Said They’d Do

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After President Donald Trump announced last month that the United States would impose a baseline 10-percent tariff on much of the world—with far higher rates for a set of other countries—economists warned that consumers would feel the impacts on a variety of products, including groceries, coffee, and cars. But the Trump administration has tried a whole range of […]

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Trump’s New Qatari Jet Would Be Just Like the Statue of Liberty, Obviously

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As they struggle to defend President Donald Trump’s plan to accept a luxury 747 from the nation of Qatar, the administration and its allies appear to have settled on one of the silliest talking points in history. Here’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on CNN today, explaining that it’s fine to take a free jumbo jet […]

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Redlining Shaped the Power Grid. Communities of Color Are Still Paying the Price.

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This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. As an ice storm slicked roads across eastern Michigan on February 6, representatives from four houses of worship arrived at the offices of Democratic US Sen. Gary Peters.  They wanted Peters to pressure the Trump administration to lift the […]

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The U.S. Just Lost Its Perfect Credit Rating Thanks to Trump’s Tax Cuts

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On Friday evening, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ overall credit-rating—from the highest level of AAA—to one notch lower, AA1, based on years of rising debt and Donald Trump’s tax cut plan, which the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Budget has calculated could add $2.5 trillion more in debt. The rating is important because it is […]

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This Week’s Reveal Podcast: Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother

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In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man killed six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. He didn’t suddenly “snap” one day out of the blue; he planned the attack and spiraled into crisis in the years leading up to it. The horrific incident left violence prevention experts […]

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ICE Officials Just Admitted to Another Major Deportation Error

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The Trump administration’s race to deport as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, has led to another major error. This time, the administration is admitting it—and it could have a major effect on deportation lawsuits. One of the challenges to the administration’s mass deportation scheme is a class-action lawsuit, filed by some of […]

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