Politics

If you’ve spent the last week watching people panic—rightly, wrongly, or just recreationally—about media consolidation, you’re not alone. Everyone from…

The article is here; the Introduction: On a busy Saturday afternoon in 1940, Walter Chaplinsky took to the streets of…

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a case with huge implications for both presidential power and the…

Multiple news outlets reported in September 2025 that the Justice Department was weighing a ban on gun possession by transgender…

The Scottsdale, Arizona, city council has updated its smoking restrictions to include e-cigarettes and vape pens, banning their use in…

In these fraught political times when our political choices are largely limited to authoritarian Republicans and totalitarian Democrats and federal…

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa says he wants feminist solutions to his country’s problems. “Polarization can lead to unsatisfying results for…

Now that the Supreme Court has granted cert in Trump v. Barbara, the meaning of the Citizenship Clause in the…

In the three days since Netflix announced its planned $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., neither the Federal Trade Commission…

Illustration: Lex Villena; Oblachko Today, I submitted an amicus brief in Pung v. Isabella County, the “home equity theft” takings…

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by associate editor Liz Wolfe to sort through the political free-for-all surrounding…

Here’s my summary of the May 23 majority en banc opinion by Judge Kyle Duncan in Little v. Llano County,…