Author: Charlotte Greene

The dramatic, month-long exile is over. The Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a Republican power play have returned to Austin, but not to a hero’s welcome from their colleagues. Instead, they were met by state police and a demand from Republican leadership to sign what they are calling “permission slips” just to…

In a remarkably candid television interview this weekend, the man President Trump has put in charge of investigating the “weaponization” of the government has revealed a stunning and controversial investigative philosophy. Ed Martin, the head of the Justice Department’s “Weaponization Working Group,” described a strategy that critics are calling a blueprint for “punitive fishing expeditions”…

The leader of a war-torn nation, flanked by the heads of Europe’s greatest powers, has come to the White House – not just to ask for help, but to resist pressure from his most powerful ally. President Donald Trump, fresh off his summit with Vladimir Putin, is pushing for a swift end to the war…

In a fiery social media post on Monday, President Donald Trump declared a new war on mail-in voting, vowing to lead a movement to eliminate it and promising to use his executive power to overhaul how elections are run. But his post did more than just attack a voting method used by millions of Americans…

For days, the nation’s capital has been embroiled in a constitutional crisis, with the President of the United States asserting direct control over the city’s police force in a move unseen in over 50 years. After a lawsuit from the city and a tense courtroom showdown, a fragile truce has been reached. But the settlement,…

After hours of closed-door talks at a remote Alaskan airbase, two of the world’s most powerful men stepped up to lecterns to announce the outcome of their historic summit. They spoke of friendship, a “path to peace,” and “great progress.” But when the brief and bizarre press conference was over, the world was left with…

A massive new federal tax law signed in Washington is now causing a powerful aftershock in state capitals across the country. In direct response to the Trump administration’s sweeping tax and spending cuts, a growing number of blue states are pushing back. They are preparing to raise taxes on their wealthiest residents in a move…

In the remote, neutral territory of Anchorage, Alaska, the leaders of the world’s two largest nuclear powers are meeting face-to-face. The stakes could not be higher. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have begun a high-stakes summit aimed at finding a diplomatic end to the brutal, years-long war in Ukraine. This meeting –…

A packed Cincinnati courtroom crackled with tension on Thursday. On one side, prosecutors painted a picture of a vicious, unprovoked mob attack that shocked the nation. On the other, defense attorneys argued it was just a street fight, dangerously inflamed by politics and race. In the middle sat a judge, tasked with weighing the raw…

In a direct rebellion against its own state government, a local school board in California’s heartland has voted to take matters into its own hands. The Kern County Board of Education has chosen to defy state policy and align itself with the Trump administration, voting Tuesday to ban transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports.…