As he made clear in a Supreme Court opinion in 2022, he’s well aware of how private intentions and public perception can differ when it comes to flying flags.

The former president’s life will get even more complicated in July, when he’s sentenced just days before the Republicans nominate him at their convention.

His conviction on 34 felony counts is powerful new information, and we should hold institutional Democrats responsible if they don’t use it—ruthlessly and effectively.

A civil war has brought the country to the brink of famine and created the world’s largest child displacement crisis. Here’s what politicians on Capitol Hill are hoping to do about it.

Yes, the former president is now a “convicted felon.” But does that change anything?

The world—except the United States—has begun to muster itself. But still, innocents die.

The city, joined by some odd bedfellows from U.S. industry, is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s water quality enforcement. And it could spell trouble for the rest of America.

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.

Just because international law allows the killing of civilians, including children, doesn’t mean that it isn’t morally abhorrent.

Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro stole one of Republicans’ favorite words, with great success. Now his Democratic peers—including President Biden—are emulating him.

The Supreme Court justice’s flag controversy should come as no surprise to anyone who paid attention to his nomination hearings in 2006.

Plutocrats like Jamie Dimon would have you believe they’re leaning toward Trump because of inflation or immigration or antisemitism, but they’re all full of it.

His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.

House Republicans’ farm bill includes a provision reversing a California law promoting more humane housing conditions for livestock. Opponents say the law infringes on other states’ prerogatives.

Say it again and again: “convicted felon Donald Trump.”

The GOP pulled “October surprises” in 1968 and 1980. Intel agencies fear this year’s version could trample democracy—and start a world war, besides.

Polls this far out from the election are notoriously unreliable. But the outcome of Trump’s hush-money trial and the first presidential debate could help shift public opinion.

Ever heard of the “mudsill theory”? Well, it goes back to the slaveholding South. And it explains a lot.

Joe Biden’s real opponent isn’t inflation or Gaza or even Trump himself. It’s nostalgia bias vs. negativity bias.

Since George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the MPD has shrunk by a third. Organizers should take credit.