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Meet the MAGA Intellectual on Hungary’s Payroll
One evening last fall, J. D. Vance threw open the doors of his home, a Queen Anne–style mansion on the campus of the U.S. Naval Observatory, to Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary. Over drinks in Vance’s study, the vice president asked Orbán for an update on life in Europe. Specifically, he wanted to
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Coachella from the archives: A visual journey from desert experiment to global spectacle
Before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival became a world-famous event, it started as a much more modest music festival in Southern California’s desert in 1999. During the festival, the Empire Polo Club in Indio has been the site of some of the biggest music and pop culture moments of the century, from Daft
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The Broken Promises of Ed Tech
For more than a decade, Dylan Kane, a seventh-grade math teacher in Leadville, Colorado, leaned into technology as a way to improve his classes. Starting in 2014, he dragged Chromebook carts down hallways to make sure all of his students could use a device. He assessed the available apps, built his own math-instruction website, and
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Mexico report downplays ‘disappeared’ crisis. Human rights activists call it a cover-up
MEXICO CITY — The goal, say Mexican authorities, was to bring clarity to one of the nation’s most explosive questions: What happened to the more than 130,000 people officially listed as “disappeared”? Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized
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Pentagon gripped by ‘climate of fear’ with more officer firings on tap during war: expert
Building upon her report from last week about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s purge of the military leadership at the Pentagon, which included Army Chief of Staff General Randy George, The Atlantic’s Nancy Youssef claimed the military leadership is walking on eggshells, hoping they survive the Donald Trump appointee’s wrath. Appearing on MS NOW’s “Way too
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When ICE Shows Up to Family Court
Twice a week, a 67-year-old retiree in New Jersey volunteers as an advocate for victims of domestic and sexual violence, often visiting hospitals and police stations as women complete rape kits and answer questions. One afternoon last May, she sat for hours in family court with a 35-year-old mother of two who was trying to
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The DOJ Misled a Judge About How It’s Using Voter Roll Data
Last week in Rhode Island, in a hearing over the Trump administration’s efforts to access the state’s unredacted voter lists, US district judge Mary McElroy asked a Department of Justice lawyer what the agency had been doing with the voter roll data it already amassed from other states in recent months. “We have not done
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Billionaire candidate for California governor catching heat for past business interests, wealth
Billionaire hedge fund founder turned environmental warrior Tom Steyer, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, is facing mounting questions about how he earned his wealth — notably investments in private prisons that are now being used to house undocumented immigrants facing deportation. Some of the most vicious political attacks come from his Democratic rivals
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How climate science is sneakily getting funded under Trump
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts. “The forbidden C-word” — climate. Roberts, union president at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in
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Jim Jordan catches heat from GOP colleagues who say he ‘sold out’
Once described by a Republican colleague as MAGA’s “legislative terrorist,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has uncharacteristically “remained on the sidelines” since President Donald Trump retook the White House, fueling speculation that his quieter approach reflects a bid for party leadership, while also drawing criticism from within the GOP for abandoning his principles. Jordan last made