The Supreme Court has left limited alternatives for protecting minority voting rights
After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are among the limited…
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Senate passes $70B immigration enforcement bill without limits on Trump settlement fund
The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, after weeks of delays and…
Republicans’ sweeping election overhaul fails in the Senate
The SAVE America Act, a far-reaching Republican election overhaul that President Trump said should be his congressional allies’ top priority,…
I wrote about George Santos. Then he made a violent threat and lied about it
NPR reported on new federal investigations examining the former Congressman’s bets on the prediction market site Kalshi. Then he threatened…
The Trump administration infrequently backs down, but it did this week
NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum about why the Trump administration appears to be backing off some…