Is Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?
Thirty years ago, Congress considered a bill much like President Trump’s recent executive order on birthright citizenship. It sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States…
Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water
The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s complex water management operations and…
Trump Tests the Boundaries of the Presidency
On his first full day back in the White House, President Trump reveled in his return to power and vowed to do what no president had ever done before. “We’re…
‘Here to Say Thank You’: Trump Takes Victory Lap in Las Vegas
President Trump was supposed to cap his first week since returning to the White House with a speech on Saturday in Las Vegas about an economic plan that he suggested…
How Trump Shifted Policy in Week 1, on Immigration, DEI and More
President Trump’s blunt message after a whirlwind week of executive orders and presidential proclamations may boil down to this: Take me at my word. During four years in political exile…
U.S. Military Planes Carrying Migrants Land in Guatemala
Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the American Embassy in Guatemala. Guatemala…
Trump Officials Pause Programs to Let In Immigrants, Including Ukrainians
Department of Homeland Security officials have ordered what amounts to a pause for a range of programs that allowed immigrants to settle in the United States temporarily, including a key…
Interior Department Says Gulf of Mexico Is Now ‘Gulf of America’
The Trump administration said on Friday that it had followed through on the president’s promises to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and…
TikTok Ban and Trump Executive Order Lead to Tech Company Dilemma
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans. But over the…
Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed, With Some Willing to Work With Republicans
As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape the federal government, Democrats have retreated into a political crouch that reflects their powerlessness in Washington. Far from rising up in outrage, the…
