Author: Eleanor Stratton

In a late-night social media post, President Donald Trump issued a direct and unambiguous ultimatum to members of his own party: fall in line and defund public broadcasting, or forfeit his crucial endorsement. The post, targeting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides funding for PBS and NPR, frames the issue as a matter…

President Trump has announced a dramatic new front in his economic war: a 50% tariff on all imported copper, set to take effect on August 1st. In a social media post, the President justified the move by releasing a “robust NATIONAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT,” arguing that copper is essential for everything from ammunition and aircraft to…

A tense scene unfolded this week in a Chicago parking lot, but this was no ordinary dispute. On one side stood the staff of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in the historic Humboldt Park neighborhood. On the other: more than a dozen federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security in…

For over fifty years, a single, 37-word sentence in American law has been one of the most powerful engines for equality in our nation’s history. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a cornerstone of civil rights, yet its simple language is now at the center of a fierce and profound constitutional battle.…

In a stunning legal maneuver, the Internal Revenue Service has fundamentally altered a 70-year-old rule that has long served as a wall between tax-exempt churches and partisan politics. In a joint court filing with the very religious groups that were suing it, the IRS has agreed that the law prohibiting political campaign intervention does not…

The story that was supposed to end with a bombshell has instead ignited a political firestorm – one that has now reached the desk of the President himself. After months of his administration fueling anticipation for a massive release of damning Jeffrey Epstein files, President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly dismissed new questions about the…

Within the span of a few days, two separate, armed ambushes were launched against federal law enforcement facilities in Texas. In Alvarado, a group clad in body armor allegedly shot a police officer and opened fire on a detention center. In McAllen, a gunman fired dozens of rounds at a U.S. Border Patrol facility before…

As the President signs his so-called “big, beautiful bill” into law this Fourth of July, the national conversation will rightly focus on its massive, agenda-setting provisions. But to truly understand the nature of this legislation and the government that created it, we must look beyond the headlines and into the fine print. The true character…