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“Mowing the grass” didn’t stop October 7. Now it’s going global.

“Mowing the grass” didn’t stop October 7. Now it’s going global.


The change reverses decades of federal policy.


A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban.


ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in Washington for a third visit.


Trump’s new law is a major change to higher education. Here’s what that means for you.


Trump officials say there’s no deeper Epstein conspiracy they can reveal. The right has reacted with fury.

Why Trump 2.0 is giving some anti-liberals second thoughts.


Trump wants to lay off thousands of federal employees. Now, he can.


Did the president just blow up Democrats’ model for fighting poverty?


AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.


The new tariff deadline is August 1, Trump says.


And 3 reasons that explain it.


The push to strip non-native Americans of citizenship echoes a dark chapter in American history.


What’s happening in the Democratic Party? A Vox reporter explains.


The strongest defense can be summed up in just two words.


The public tends to dislike big budget bills, and the way they’re passed.


It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.


Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this.


The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.


California Democrats finally stopped outsourcing their policy judgment to their favorite lobbies.


Despite the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor being labeled a communist, his agenda actually promises something much more ideologically modest.


The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion in education funding.


A bill that will give China the lead in the race for advanced AI.


How a 1965 prediction of impending Canadian doom sheds light on Trump’s talk of the 51st state.


Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.


It combines budget-busting tax cuts and painful social program cuts.


How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.


The president’s “big, beautiful bill” just got worse.


Is this the start of the Democrats’ Tea Party?


The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.


Trump attacked Iran. What he did next was even more revealing.


The Republican justices’ decision fundamentally altered how public schools must operate.


This decision isn’t really about birthright citizenship.


The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.


The Republican justices just nuked much of federal Medicaid law, in order to spite Planned Parenthood.


Anti-vaxxers are coming for health recommendations parents rely on.


Four takeaways from the socialist’s shocking defeat of Andrew Cuomo.


Every president wants to extricate America from the region’s conflicts. None of them do.


Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.


The Court picked a hell of a time to give lawsuit immunity to federal law enforcement.


Your brain isn’t what it used to be.


The public doesn’t like it when the president actually does something.
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