President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump released meme coins just days before he took the oath of office. A splashy pre-inaugural party was held at a property his company owns. And a ...

The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged ...

Elon Musk’s outsized influence with the new president is a direct result of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which turns 15 this week.” ...

A recent Orange County Grand Jury report that found no evidence of voter fraud did little to dissuade a false claim of election tampering from exploding on social media soon after. On Jan. 16, Joe ...

All the living former presidents were there and the outgoing president amicably greeted his successor, who gave a speech about the country’s bright future and who left to the blare of a brass band. At ...

Inside this WaPo story on the Musk/Ramaswamy divergence over DOGE’s goals, and Musk pushing his partner out, is this key information: In his new role, Musk appears to have vast access to the inner ...

Eveline Dowling in The Fulcrum: n the 2024 U.S. election, several states did not pass ballot initiatives to implement Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) despite strong majority support from voters under 65.

NYT: Attorneys general from 22 states sued President Trump in two federal district courts on Tuesday to block an executive order that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized ...

Time: Another source familiar with the matter tells TIME that a Trump ally informed Ernst that the President would support a primary challenge against her in Iowa—where Trump won the caucuses last ...

It is hard to know what to even say about this affront to the rule of law and a reversing of the convictions of those who sought to overturn the results of a fair and legitimate election in 2020.

A short Common Ground Democracy post with this subtitle: “Post-inauguration, there continue to be misunderstandings of the election.” ...

Review by Walter Horn (and more thoughts from him here ).