A report that one of Trump’s aides went a year without routine vetting raises a question a former CIA executive knows well: What is that process for?
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Uncle Sam may receive charitable gifts, but that doesn’t give presidents free rein on how to spend those funds.
Ideas from QAnon’s conspiracy theory have appeared on government social media sites during Trump’s second term and continue to divide America amid social and economic crises.
Uncle Sam may receive charitable gifts, but that doesn’t give presidents free rein on how to spend those funds.
Legal scholars argue that when executive branch agencies impose conditions on federal funds, courts should give these cases special scrutiny.
To lose a defence minister in time of war is a blow. To also lose a commander-in-chief is a crisis.
This account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency is full of direct quotes from White House insiders.
While discord exists over the meaning of the 250th anniversary, Americans strongly believe there is more that unites the country than divides it.
The latest in the president’s long list of upgrades, renovations and new monuments has sent social media into a frenzy.
For both Roman gladiators and modern-day mixed martial arts participants, physical contests become moral dramas about sacrifice and human limits. That has led today’s fighters to right-wing politics.
Joe Rogan calls it a ‘gimmick’ but Donald Trump says it will be ‘great for America’. Welcome to the White House UFC event.
It’s showtime! …Erecting a mixed martials arts arena at the White House and hinting that it might just become a permanent fixture is a nod to power that draws on force and spectacle.
Does a seashell arrangement in the form of the numerals ‘86 47’ amount to a criminal threat to assassinate President Donald Trump, as prosecutors suggest?
Most states have some sort of requirement for a minimum number of lockdown drills a year, but there is no set federal guidance.
The moral dimension of political polarization in the US, where each side views the other as immoral, helps fuel attacks like the one against Trump at the Washington Hilton.
US presidents haven’t usually sought to impress their own architectural tastes – much less their names while in office – on national monuments.
By resurrecting statues toppled in protests during his first term, Donald Trump wants to reverse attempts to ‘erase history’. But history is never that simple.
The visuals being used by the White House frame real victims of war as game avatars. And avatars, by definition, are not grievable.
From ancient Rome to Napoleon’s Paris, the triumphal arch has long memorialised imperial dreams. Is Donald Trump on track to realise his own in Washington?
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.
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