The juxtaposition of serious executive action with smirky internet images was the defining style of official communication by Donald Trump and his team in his first year back in the White House. The ...

But even while administration sources were contesting the notion that Hegseth had personally ordered the follow-up strike, the secretary himself was letting the grinning, weapon-wielding turtle speak ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is facing a DOJ investigation over an office renovation. Viral reactions online are poking fun at the ...

Tuesday marked five years since rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to keep President Donald Trump in power ...

Vice President JD Vance sparked backlash after posting a sombrero meme mocking a January 6 vigil led by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer ...

The world has reached various inflection points, or so we are often told. Advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, promises to transform our way of life. In geopolitics, the growing ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris thanked her supporters for "standing up for our democracy" and the "rule of law" on Friday at the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) annual winter meeting in Los ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat, to examine how our public sphere slid from healthy debate ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...

About half of Americans say democracy is performing poorly, according to a survey. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey found that 51 percent of respondents ...