Category Politics

This week, the justices will hear the biggest case on homelessness in decades. A small tent encampment off of Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Rachel M. Cohen is a…

Fareed Zakaria on the age of revolution. Journalist Fareed Zakaria speaks during the Ellis Island Medals of Honor ceremony at the Ellis Island Honors Society meeting in New York on May 13, 2017. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images This story…

Israel launched strikes in response to Iran’s retaliatory attack. Here’s what we know. A crowd carrying a model of Iran’s first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a gathering to celebrate the IRGC UAV and missile attack against Israel,…

Trump insists that his jurors can’t be impartial. Don’t believe him. Former President Donald Trump appears in Manhattan criminal court on April 19 for jury selection in his hush-money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Curtis…

The historical discussion at the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  At a protest in Rome in October 2023 calling for a ceasefire and aid into Gaza, a protester holds a sign calling for an end to “colonialism and displacement” in Palestine.…

Grants Pass v. Johnson could make the entire criminal justice system far crueler. It also tests the limits of judicial power. Unhoused people photographed in San Francisco in February of 2024. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Ian Millhiser…

Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters. Jacob Chansley, also known as the “QAnon Shaman,” screams “Freedom” inside the US Senate chamber after the Capitol was breached by a mob during…

Carlson mainstreamed antisemitism for a long time, and conservatives seemed not to care. Then he set his sights on Israel. Tucker Carlson speaks in Florida on April 2, 2024. Ivan Apfel/Getty Images Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox,…

The Court mostly reinstates Idaho’s ban on transgender health care for children. Activists for transgender rights gather in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a…

It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas. Demonstrators march from Baton Rouge City Hall to the Louisiana Capitol to protest the shooting of Alton Sterling by a police officer on July 9, 2016,…