The United States’ Unamendable Constitution

The Secretary of State is often described as the architect of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. How much control he actually exercises remains uncertain.

Can American democracy come back from the brink?

A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opinions; she now sees a vastly greater threat from the Trump Administration.

A case for preparation over fear.

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer, reporting from the occupied city, share interviews with the mayor, the police chief, and two citizens who were detained and interrogated.

The question is not if he will undermine confidence in the midterms but how.

After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.

For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.

It remains far and away the most popular sport in the U.S., even in the face of growing concerns about players’ safety. What do we get from the spectacle?

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”