Trump’s Odd Nuclear Threat and America’s House of Dynamite

Almost nothing about Trump's latest nuke tweet is correct. Plus what Netflix's HOUSE OF DYNAMITE gets right about nuclear war.

Think ICE Is Bad Now? Today the Border Patrol Is Taking It Over

How Gregory Bovino Proudly Became Trump’s #1 Immigration Stormtrooper

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Already a Disaster

It's cutting standards and racing to hire exactly the wrong people, precisely as predicted.

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

Three Reasons I Still Have Hope for America

This weekend's "No Kings" rallies stand as an important corrective amid a dark moment

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"

ICE crosses another big, important line.

We are all James Comey

Jim Comey was first, but let's be clear: Donald Trump is coming for the rest of us too.

Rid me of this meddlesome priest, Pam!

How mob boss Trump sped through all of Watergate in just a single weekend.

Luck, Trauma, and Remembering 24 Years Later

The three stories I think about on 9/11

ICE is Eating the Soul of America

Four things that show ICE increasingly considers itself outside the law

On War ("Department Of" and "Conflicts to Watch")

Why Trump's move to rename the Department of Defense is both wrong and ahistorical, plus a look at the world's top five geopolitical danger zones.