The American Postal Workers Union launched an ad campaign Thursday to push back against efforts to scale back voting by mail. The initiative comes in response to legal action by state and federal governments over the past year to delegitimize mail-in ballots, including President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to limit mail-in voting.
The 30-second ad…
One afternoon in March 2023, Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter were sitting in their favorite Houston bar, having a glass of wine, when their phones lit up with notifications of an identical email. It was from a law firm in Washington, D.C., and it was offering to represent them in a wrongful death lawsuit launched by a man called Marcus Silva.
Thinking the email must be a prank, they sent a…
The U.S. secretary of transportation is supposed to oversee America’s transportation policy, but Sean Duffy has spent most of his tenure on vacation.
Duffy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in January 2025. Since then, he’s spent seven months—nearly half of his time in office—galavanting across the country with his family.
The road trip was fodder for an upcoming reality television show called…