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United States Postal Service
March 14, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
USPS Makes Alarming Deal With Elon Musk’s DOGE
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is welcoming DOGE with open arms.
February 21, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Gets His Next Target on the Chopping Block: the Postal Service
Donald Trump is getting ready to nix the vital agency altogether.
February 12, 2021
Alex Pareene
Fire Louis DeJoy
It wouldn’t be simple for Joe Biden to oust the postmaster general, but it’s hardly as impossible as the press is making it out to be.
September 21, 2020
MagazineMatt Ford
The Man Who Is Determined to Stop Trump From Rigging the Election
Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is leading the fight to preserve the integrity of the ballot.
August 6, 2020
Casey Taylor
Death by a Thousand Cuts for One of America’s Last Great Institutions
Mail carriers tell the story of how the destruction of the U.S. Postal Service would mean the end of a connected country.

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