Inside Trump’s Renewed Effort to Undo a Major Climate Rule
For years, the fossil fuel industry and its allies have tried to overturn one of the most important federal rulings in the history of climate policy: the one that requires…
Trump Argues That His Immunity Extends to E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuits
President Trump and the writer E. Jean Carroll are arguing over whether a Supreme Court decision affording him substantial criminal immunity also shields him from having to pay tens of…
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 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…
Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision
Since 1793, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request by President George Washington to offer legal guidance on foreign relations, the court’s justices have steered away from weighing in…
Trump Reinstates Longstanding Republican Anti-Abortion Policy
President Trump on Friday reinstated a longstanding Republican anti-abortion policy known as the “Mexico City Rule,” which bars federal funding from going to any overseas nongovernmental organization that performs or…
Supreme Court to Hear Oklahoma Religious Charter School Case
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider a high-profile case that could open the door to allowing public dollars to directly fund religious schools. The widely watched case out…
In the TikTok Show ‘Famehungry,’ All the World’s an Audience
“If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.” That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in “Famehungry,” a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an…
Supreme Court Revives Law Meant to Fight Money Laundering
The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a federal law requiring companies to report information about their owners in an effort to combat money laundering, the drug trade and terrorism. The…
Sacklers Up Their Offer to Settle Purdue Opioids Cases, With a New Condition
Seven months after the Supreme Court struck down a deal that would have resolved thousands of opioid cases against Purdue Pharma, the company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, have…