December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'

A quiet battle has played out in court over money that "sanctuary" states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, for ProPublica

December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'

A quiet battle has played out in court over money that "sanctuary" states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, for ProPublica

December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Tick, tick, tick ...

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | 'Time is out': Democrat rips GOP's health care shenanigans

December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Even apparent war crimes won't stop the GOP from defending Hegseth

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans are once again circling the wagons around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he faces backlash for ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean Sea.

December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Even apparent war crimes won't stop the GOP from defending Hegseth

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans are once again circling the wagons around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he faces backlash for ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean Sea.

December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Even apparent war crimes won't stop the GOP from defending Hegseth

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans are once again circling the wagons around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he faces backlash for ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean Sea.

December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Pete's boats

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged about

December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.

Nayra Guzma'n was arrested 15 days after her daughter's difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. By Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra for The 19th

December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST
Sean Duffy once defended Congress's power of the purse. Now he defies it.

As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding. By Jake Pearson for ProPublica Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been one of the most vociferous defenders of President Donald Trump's expansive use of executive authority, withholding billions of dollars in federal funding to states and dismissing protests of the White House's boundary-pushing behavior as the gripings of "disenfranchised Democrats."

December 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST
Black Music Sunday: Lead Belly, the virtuoso who told us to 'stay woke'

  Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 290 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you'll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new. Dec. 6 marks the passing of the late, great Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter from Lou Gehrig's disease in 1949.

December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM EST
Cartoon: Naughty to nice list

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a trafficker

December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST
Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay

Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics""and why you need to know. Conservatives have spent the last week grousing about the academic merits of an obscure college essay, a topic that right-wingers historically show little interest in. But in this case, the story isn't really about college or academia or essays but is instead about yet another front in the right's never-ending culture wars and an attempt to bully another minority group.