May 22, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT / Updated May 22, 2025, 5:45 PM EDTBy Jordan RubinThe Supreme Court backed President Donald Trump’s power to fire independent federal agency members over dissent from the court’s three Democratic appointees, who said the

Ordinarily, Donald Trump isn’t the kind of guy who’s overly concerned with evidence. The president relies on preconceived ideas, assorted conspiracy theories, rumors he’s heard via conservative media and routine assumptions he creates out of whole cloth,

President Donald Trump has enacted a raft of suppressive policies ostensibly designed to combat antisemitism, such as cutting off funding to universities that he claims haven’t done enough to curb antisemitism on campus. But if you take

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President Donald Trump's standing with voters is often portrayed as an immutable fact.But while it's true that his hard-core supporters don't appear to be swayed by much, recent events have shown that the public can and will

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Is yet another wrongful deportation case on its way to the Supreme Court? It could be, after a divided appellate panel on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to lift an order to “facilitate” a man’s return

This is an adapted excerpt from the May 18 episode of “Velshi.”It’s a serious matter, but the road from democracy to authoritarianism — the posturing, the demeanor, the threats made by those who wish to rule with

Semiautomatic weapons are already powerful, and they’ve already been used in a great many mass shootings in the United States. But devices known as “forced reset triggers” can turn these same firearms into even more deadly tools:

To justify his administration’s plans to remove immigrants to a Salvadoran megaprison, Donald Trump has spent months insisting that Venezuela’s government controls the Tren de Aragua gang. Among the problems with this is the simple fact that