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South Carolina Senate Refuses to Redraw Maps Mid-Election

Editor’s note: This article is a forward-looking analysis set in the 2026 election cycle. Dates, figures, and quotations are presented within that hypothetical setting. South Carolina lawmakers came to Columbia with a clear mission: redraw the state’s congressional map in time for the 2026...

James Talarico’s Bible Argument on Abortion

When politicians bring the Bible into abortion politics, it can land as a one-size-fits-all argument. Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is taking a different tack. He is using faith language to argue that the state should not be the one making the decision. In an interview on The Jamie...

Thomas Slams Supreme Court Snub of Florida’s CDL Suit

When the Supreme Court turns down a case, most Americans shrug. The Court rejects far more petitions than it accepts, and it has wide latitude to manage much of its docket. But Justice Clarence Thomas is asking a blunt civics-class question that does not fit neatly into modern Court habits: What...

Mojtaba Khamenei and the ‘Courier Deal’ Problem

When Americans picture diplomacy, we tend to imagine conference rooms, flags, and a leader stepping up to a microphone to say what they agreed to and why. The current U.S. talks with Iran are testing that mental picture in a very concrete way. Counterterrorism analysts say Iran’s supreme leader,...

What We’re Owed After the White House Checkpoint Shooting

When shots are fired at a White House checkpoint, the first question is always the same: how close did the threat get? But the second question matters just as much, and we ask it far less often: what are we, the public, entitled to know afterward ? Shortly after 6pm on Saturday, the White House was...

New Hampshire’s Campus Gun Ban Fight

Public colleges like to speak in the language of community. They are marketplaces of ideas, shared spaces, open campuses, open doors. But when the topic is firearms, many public universities suddenly speak a different language. Not community, but property. Not rights, but rules. Not citizens, but...

The White House Checkpoint Shooting and the Public’s Right to Answers

Saturday evening, a 21-year-old Maryland man, Nasire Best, approached a White House security checkpoint near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, near the White House gates. Officials say that shortly after 6 p.m. ET he pulled a revolver from a bag and opened fire on Secret Service officers....

A Colorado Student, a Slam Poem, and the First Amendment

Public schools often say they want “student voice,” but the promise gets complicated fast when a student picks a topic adults would rather avoid. That tension sits at the center of a dispute out of Jefferson County, Colorado, where a 13-year-old student at Drake Middle School says she was prevented...

A Primary Win and a Prison List

Here is the question that should make every American, left, right, and exhausted in the middle, sit up straight: what happens to constitutional democracy when a candidate runs not on laws they plan to pass, but on people they plan to punish? In a South Texas Democratic primary that spilled into a...

John Morgan’s 2024 Autopsy: DEI, Transgender Sports, and the Border

Every losing party does a version of the same thing after Election Day. It convenes a postmortem, produces a document, and promises that the next cycle will be different. The idea is simple: if we can diagnose the failure precisely enough, we can treat it next time. John Morgan, a longtime...

Tulsi Gabbard Resigns as Director of National Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her position as Director of National Intelligence, notifying President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office Friday that she needs to step away from government service to support her husband through a serious illness. Her last day at the Office of the...

Supreme Court Sends Two Voting Rights Act Cases Back Down

When people picture the Supreme Court at work, they often imagine a dramatic, final decision: a big ruling, a clear winner, and a clear loser. But some of the Court’s most consequential moves are quieter. This week, the justices issued brief orders in two Voting Rights Act cases that did not...

A DOJ Addendum That Would Block IRS Audits of Trump

There are plenty of ways a legal settlement can end a dispute. What is far harder to justify, in a system built on equal treatment, is a settlement term that appears to place one person and his businesses outside the reach of routine tax enforcement for years already on file. That is the concern...

Virginia’s Assault Firearm Ban and the Post-Bruen Court Test

[content] Virginia’s new “assault firearm” law is now the subject of a federal constitutional challenge, and it arrives at a moment when Second Amendment litigation follows a very different roadmap than it did just a few years ago. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) , the...

Trump Targets Thomas Massie

Every so often, American politics gives us a clean civics lesson. Not a tidy one. A real one. The kind with sharp elbows and clear consequences. In Kentucky, Representative Thomas Massie is staring down exactly that kind of lesson. With the Republican primary set for Tuesday, President Donald Trump...

Graham’s Warning to GOP Dissenters

Political parties are coalitions until they are not. At some point, a coalition stops being a loose agreement about goals and becomes a discipline system. Rewards flow to those who help the leader. Penalties land on those who do not. Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested the Republican Party is operating...

Supreme Court Blocks Va. Democrats’ Bid to Restore Voter-Approved Maps

The Supreme Court issued a one-sentence emergency order that ends Virginia Democrats’ bid to revive voter-approved redistricting changes . The practical effect is straightforward: the 2021 congressional map stays in place , maintaining a narrow GOP edge. The justices offered no explanation and no...

McMorrow’s Water Bills and the Politics of Shutoffs

Mallory McMorrow is building a U.S. Senate campaign around affordability and the idea that basic necessities should not be rationed by wealth. But at her Royal Oak-area property, her own water account became a quiet case study in how quickly “policy” turns into “practice.” Records show McMorrow and...

Jacksonville’s Gun Log Lawsuit and the Meaning of “Registration”

“Registration” sounds like a bureaucratic word. A form. A checkbox. A harmless administrative ritual. But in American gun politics and American gun law, registration is not neutral vocabulary. It is a loaded category. It can mean everything from a city guard writing down a visitor’s name to a...

Evanston to Send $25,000 Reparations Payments to 44 Residents

Evanston, Illinois is preparing to send a new round of publicly funded reparations payments: $25,000 each to 44 residents. The city’s reparations committee has said the payments are meant to help cover housing expenses , and that additional recipients are lined up behind them as money becomes...