Late on Thanksgiving Day, a holiday whose central fable is about the American value of welcoming strangers in need, President Donald Trump announced an intent to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover.” It is not clear exactly how exactly this sweeping policy is supposed to […]

This winter was already shaping up to be one of the strangest cold and flu seasons in recent memory.  With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the federal government has been casting doubt on the value of vaccines in the months leading up to virus […]

There is a specter of inevitability hanging over much of the Supreme Court’s current term. It is unlikely that any legal argument could persuade the Court’s Republican majority to uphold bans on anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy, for example, or to preserve the Voting Rights Act. These are issues where Republican judges have wildly divergent views from […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The former president of Honduras, who was serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking huge amounts of cocaine into the US, was freed from prison on […]

The US may or may not be marching toward war with Venezuela, but at the moment, there’s another Latin American country that seems to be occupying President Donald Trump’s attention.  Counting is currently underway in Honduras’s presidential election, which was held on Sunday, and the margins are razor thin, with Nasry “Tito” Asfura of the […]