Something is happening this Thursday that, during normal times, Americans wouldn’t need to pay a lick of attention to.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Monday that the United States is “fine” with allowing Iranian oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz—due to the surging oil prices thanks to ...

Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his ...

Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump claimed that other regions of the world—such as China—depend more on the Middle East waterway than the U.S. does, and should therefore be ...

President Donald Trump really doesn’t want to talk about sending more U.S. servicemembers to die in the Middle East, after he’d already claimed the war was won. Speaking to the press aboard Air Force ...

As Republicans grow angrier at Trump for making their midterm difficulties worse, a progressive journalist explains why ...

Before emigrating to the United States in 2021, Paktiawal was a member of the Afghan special forces who was hired by the U.S.

Requiring people to shell out for passports and birth certificates to “solve” a problem that doesn’t exist is a modern-day ...

Historian Thomas Zimmer says that American democracy is still in a bad place but that Trump has been slowed on a number of fronts.

Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.

On Truth Social Sunday, Trump made a long-winded post accusing Iran of using AI to create fake videos of attacks on U.S. ships and American publications of “false reporting,” calling out The Wall ...

As Republicans grow angrier at Trump for making their midterm difficulties worse, a progressive journalist explains why Democratic energy and GOP discord could make the difference this fall.