Two fast-moving election cases are raising a consequential question ahead of the November midterms: Will the courts serve as a guardrail when government officials attempt to change voting rules or congressional boundaries for partisan advantage? In his September 4 American Prospect newsletter, “Trump, Election Theft, and the Courts,” Robert Kuttner argues that recent rulings suggest judges may be unwilling to permit the Trump administration and its allies to reshape the elec

In a recent article for The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner warns that the Trump administration’s reported effort to use the IRS against liberal nonprofits could reach far beyond a handful of prominent foundations. It could threaten the civic work that nonprofit and faith-based organizations have performed in American communities for generations.

“Springfield is under siege.” That’s what multiple faith leaders said the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 28, during a passionate press conference calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cease its “humiliating” treatment of local Haitian immigrants.

A federal court has stopped the Postal Service from imposing new mail-ballot requirements—but an emergency appeal means the rules for November remain unsettled

The recent federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has sent shockwaves through the legal community, civil rights organizations, and advocates for democracy across the country. The Department of Justice under the second Trump administration has accused the SPLC of fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and making false statements related to an informant program the organization used to monitor violent extremist groups.

The real crisis this kind of media causes isn’t just the misinformation; it’s the collapse of a shared reality among Americans, without which democracy can’t function. And we’re seeing that play out in real time in the daily dysfunction both in Congress and in state capitols across the nation.

At a time when there are efforts to erase it, in 2026, the United States marks a significant milestone: 100 years since the first federal recognition of Black Americans through Negro History Week.

Demonstrators across the country expressed anger at the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.

Winter’s here, and you can feel it. Short days. Cold nights. Holiday music is trying to warm a world where many still feel iced out. ’Cause like my favorite wordsmith, Gil Scott-Heron, once reminded us — It’s “Winter in America.”

Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 National Guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

Trump is now trying to extract a quarter-billion dollars from the American treasury — our tax dollars — to compensate himself for the troubles he faced when Merrick Garland belatedly tried to hold him to account for criminally stealing classified documents, trying to overthrow the 2020 election, and his explicit, public outreach to Putin to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public that helped him win the 2016 election

ProPublica’s in-depth investigation reveals that Russell Vought, Donald Trump’s former budget director, is the real power inside this White House.

Vice President JD Vance sparked alarm on Sunday when he said that President Donald Trump was considering invoking the Insurrection Act under the pretenses of combating violent crime in US cities.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — From purging diversity programs to steamrolling media independence, Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of white nationalist policymaking under the guise of federal power.

President Trump has repeatedly promised to "make America affordable again." But for those Americans most in need, his administration's latest budget plan would dramatically shrink the federal rental aid that helps keep millions of people housed.

The president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic

To say the origins of Trump’s sweeping international tariffs are dubious is an understatement, Rachel Maddow said on her MSNBC show.

Since Trump’s election victory, leaders in business and education have rushed to show that they no longer have any political beliefs

As we celebrate Black History Month today, it's essential to recognize how moments like Fitzgerald's halftime show remind us of the ongoing

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote and all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost.