The interim agreement to end the war, signed by both sides on Wednesday, appears to tilt toward Iran: it lifts the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, grants sanction waivers for Iranian oil products – meaning Tehran no longer has to sell oil at a discount – and gives the Islamic Republic access to frozen funds, worth some $24 billion. While…
When Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a new assault weapons ban in Virginia last month, it got almost zero national news coverage. Yet it amounted to an important milestone: It marked the first time in U.S. history that such a gun control measure was passed into law by any state government in the American South.
So it’s sadly fitting that passage of this law has been greeted by what you might…
It would be hard to know from his campaign alone what office exactly Bo French is running for. He’s raged about the supposed “Islamification” of Texas and called for deporting 100 million people, including Native Americans. He’s pledged to take on both DEI and sharia law, which he accused his opponent in the Republican primary of supporting. He’s praised Rhodesia, the former white minority–ruled…
In an interview with _The_ _New York Times_ last week, Tucker Carlson, once a Trump stalwart, called President Trump’s war with Iran “the single most foolish thing any American president has ever done.” The conservative podcaster no doubt was being intentionally hyperbolic, as his followers expect; it’s hard to argue that this military misadventure already qualifies as a more foolish decision…
Take a random moment from Trump’s second term—his inauguration, a state visit to the Middle East, a meeting of the preposterous “Board of Peace,” even just a random day when cameras are allowed into the Oval Office—and there is a decent chance that Gianni Infantino will be somewhere in the frame. From practically the moment Trump returned to office, the FIFA president has slavishly followed him,…
For 41 days, Senate Republicans refused to entertain any bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security that did not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. On Friday, in the dead of night, they caved and passed a bill that did exactly that, ending a shutdown that—because the Transportation Security Administration, like ICE and CBP, is part…
The role of the pro-Israel lobbying apparatus has become a flashpoint in the race between Brad Lander and Dan Goldman for New York…
The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over whether private AI makers can limit how the US military uses their systems. Just hours later, Anthropic rival OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced that his company had reached a deal to supply the Pentagon with its technology,…
The Trump administration on Friday moved to ban the use of products from artificial intelligence company Anthropic by federal businesses, escalating a high-stakes clash over whether private AI makers can limit how the US military uses their systems.
Calling Anthropic “Leftwing nut jobs,” President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was directing “EVERY Federal Agency” to stop using…
Cities across the United States are figuring out how to slow ICE’s reckless authoritarian roll. (Sara Diggins / The Austin American-Statesman…
Portugal’s parliament on Thursday approved a bill, on its first reading, requiring explicit parental consent for children aged 13 to 16 to access social media, in one of the first concrete legislative moves in Europe to impose such restrictions.
Authors of the draft legislation from the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) say it is needed to protect children from cyberbullying, harmful content…
Multimillion-dollar deals to sell warehouses to ICE are handled directly by real estate brokers. (Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images)
Over the past several weeks, Trump…