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Trump just did the one thing the Supreme Court said he can’t do
Ian Millhiser, Vox
The six Republican justices have largely behaved as lickspittles to the leader of their political party. These are, after all, the same GOP political appointees who said that President Donald Trump is allowed to commit crimes. Last May, however, the Court did…
Aug 26, 2025, 4:29 PM
The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration’s decision to cancel numerous public health grants. The array of six opinions in National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Assoc…
Aug 22, 2025, 12:03 AM
Stephen Miller is undercutting Trump’s war on democracy
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
In the public imagination, Stephen Miller is the dark heart of the Trump administration — a pulsing mass of anti-immigrant hatred behind its most aggressively authoritarian moves. But what if there’s a different story to be told — that Stephen Miller’s obsess…
Aug 21, 2025, 5:37 PM
Want your company’s merger approved? Pay a MAGA influencer.
Andrew Prokop, Vox
A former Trump Justice Department appointee blasted some of his ex-colleagues in a speech Monday, saying they “perverted justice and acted inconsistent with the rule of law” — and he named names. Roger Alford was a top appointee in the DOJ’s antitrust divisio…
Aug 20, 2025, 7:53 PM
Why the DOJ is looking into DC crime stats
Cameron Peters, Vox
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: As President Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, DC…
Aug 19, 2025, 10:26 PM
Why Ukraine won’t just give up its territory
Joshua Keating, Vox
Ukrainian forces still control 2,550 square miles of the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, an area roughly the size of Delaware. For many, including President Donald Trump, who met with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday at the White H…
Aug 19, 2025, 5:37 PM
The serious trend behind MSNBC’s silly new name
Andrew Prokop, Vox
Goodbye MSBNC, and hello “MS NOW.” In an announcement that has triggered widespread befuddlement and mockery, the progressive cable news network is getting rebranded. The new name isn’t meant to call to mind Microsoft or the honorific “Ms.” Instead, in the s…
Aug 18, 2025, 7:42 PM
Trump’s immigration raids are now before the Supreme Court
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down a temporary order placing some restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in that city. The Trump administration now wants the Supreme Court to lift those restrictions. The conteste…
Aug 15, 2025, 4:22 PM
The real reason Trump’s DC takeover is scary
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Depending on who you listen to, President Donald Trump ’s decision to seize control over law enforcement in Washington, DC, is either an authoritarian menace or a farce. The authoritarian menace case is straightforward: Trump is (again) asserting the power to …
Aug 15, 2025, 2:08 PM
There’s a big, important limit on Trump’s power to seize control of DC’s police
Ian Millhiser, Vox
On Monday, President Donald Trump released an executive order invoking a rarely used federal law that allows him to temporarily seize control over Washington, DC’s police force. Later the same day, DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser seemed to concede that th…
Aug 12, 2025, 4:27 PM
The twisted reason why the Trump administration claims to care about eagles
Benji Jones, Vox
The Trump administration is worried, it would seem, about eagles — like, the big birds of prey with sharp talons and famously good eyesight. Earlier this month, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who oversees endangered species, wrote on X that wind-energy proj…
Aug 12, 2025, 1:57 PM
Trump’s takeover of the DC police force, briefly explained
Cameron Peters, Vox
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: President Donald Trump announced today that he will fe…
Aug 11, 2025, 9:59 PM
Trump’s new tax, briefly explained
Cameron Peters, Vox
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: It’s tariffs day, for real this time. President Donald…
Aug 7, 2025, 10:23 PM
The Texas gerrymandering showdown is about to get even messier
Sean Rameswaram, Vox
Democracy’s a pretty simple concept: Voters vote for a politician, the politician with the most votes wins, and that politician then represents voters as an elected official. That’s the idea anyway, right? But what if — just what if — instead of voters pickin…
Aug 7, 2025, 8:54 PM
The government is literally telling firefighters “help is not on the way”
Kylie Mohr, Vox
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every spring, Forest Service fire leaders meet to plan for the upcoming fire season. This year, some employees were shocked by the blunt…
Aug 7, 2025, 6:25 PM
The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms.
Sean Rameswaram, Vox
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced last week that it would shut down after Congress voted to claw back over $500 million of federal funding from the organization. The announcement imperils local PBS and NPR stations around the country that have…
Aug 7, 2025, 5:47 PM
There’s only one type of American who still trusts the Supreme Court
Ian Millhiser, Vox
A new Gallup poll finds public approval of the Supreme Court falling below 40 percent for the first time in the poll’s history. The poll aligns with many others, which have shown public support for the Supreme Court collapsing since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’…
Aug 6, 2025, 9:41 PM
RFK Jr. defunds a medical miracle
Cameron Peters, Vox
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: In a blow to US pandemic preparedness, Health Secretar…
Aug 6, 2025, 9:05 PM
The jobs report is a big deal. Trump’s response is an even bigger one.
Rebeca Ibarra, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a jobs report that upended the narrative pundits, journalists, government officials, and the White House had been repeating for months: The economy is doing just fine. The numbers showed that the US economy a…
Aug 6, 2025, 8:59 PM
The Trump-Texas redistricting mess, briefly explained
Christian Paz, Vox
A political showdown is unfolding in Texas, where state Republican lawmakers are trying to game the system to give their national party an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. They’ve hit a temporary roadblock, for now. But the whole gambit has huge na…
Aug 6, 2025, 5:27 PM
A new Supreme Court case asks whether children still have First Amendment rights
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Let’s give credit where it is due. The current Supreme Court has a decent record on free speech issues. There have been some worrisome moves, such as the Court’s decision not to immediately reverse an appeals court decision that stripped activists of their r…
Aug 6, 2025, 4:32 PM
The Gen Z divide that could decide the next election
Christian Paz, Vox
The future of American politics might be decided by whether young voters get most of their news through TikTok. I don’t mean to single out the Chinese-owned vertical video app here. TikTok is a stand-in for a bigger phenomenon in modern American society: pas…
Aug 6, 2025, 2:04 PM
Did we just lose $7 billion for solar?
Cameron Peters, Paige Vega, Vox
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 Trump administration plans to claw back some $7 bi…
Aug 5, 2025, 10:43 PM
Trump’s tariffs have pissed off the right’s favorite “pervert”
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Unfortunately, we have to talk about Bronze Age Pervert. The pseudonymous writer, widely identified as a Romanian-American political theorist named Costin Alamariu, has become a popular influencer among very online young conservatives. BAP’s worldview is crud…
Aug 5, 2025, 9:39 PM
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