Cuba’s energy situation is, by almost any metric, one of the worst crises the country has faced in decades. Yet right at the center of that same disaster, something unexpected is happening: the island is moving faster than almost any country on earth toward a solar-powered future. That those two facts are simultaneously true is...
The word “FOREVER” sitting in a federal legal document is unusual enough on its own. Seeing it in a one-page addendum that permanently blocks the IRS from examining a sitting president’s tax history is something else entirely. The document was added to the Justice Department’s website on a Tuesday, hours after the acting attorney general...
While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Charlie Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as something rarer and harder to shake: a criminal prosecution. A retired police officer, a shared meme, a county in Tennessee still raw from grief, and a chain of events that ended with...
The South Lawn of the White House is one of the most photographed patches of grass in the world. State arrivals, Easter egg rolls, summer barbecues, the familiar sight of a president walking toward a waiting helicopter. It has been, for more than two centuries, a living symbol of the American presidency. Now it may...
When Trump’s plane touched down in Beijing last week, the Chinese internet was ready for him. While state television rolled out the ceremonial welcome, something else entirely was trending on Weibo, China’s dominant social platform: a nickname. Not a flattering one. Not a neutral one. A nickname that captured, in two words, exactly what a...
It started, as so many things do with this president, with a picture. Not a press photo, not a campaign headshot, but a digitally generated image posted to Truth Social on a Sunday afternoon: Donald Trump striding across what appears to be a desert military base flanked by stern-faced Secret Service agents, while beside him...
You want to know what your rights are if the President dies. Not in a dark or political way – just the practical, legal question that nobody seems to answer clearly. What happens to the First Lady? What does she get? Where does she stand? The question has floated through plenty of living rooms and...
King Charles III has been on the throne for less than three years, which raises a direct question: what would happen to Camilla if he dies first? The public is still adjusting to a King after seven decades of a Queen, and his cancer diagnosis in 2024 made the line of succession a sudden, practical...
Most people could name a handful of things the U.S. president can do without breaking a sweat. Sign bills into law. Command the military. Pardon federal criminals. Grant or withhold things by executive order with a stroke of a pen. The office radiates authority in a way that makes it easy to assume the person...
Most people, when they think about crossing a border illegally, imagine a worst-case scenario somewhere in the range of “detained for a few hours” or “sent home on a government’s dime.” For most of the world, that mental picture is roughly accurate. A civil fine. A deportation order. An awkward ride back across the line....
America is a place people love fiercely, argue about constantly, and sometimes quietly fantasize about leaving. The national mythology says this is the greatest country on earth – and plenty of people believe it. But a growing number of Americans, and most of the rest of the world watching from a distance, have a list...
The Democratic Party hasn’t been in this position in decades. No incumbent on the ballot. No obvious heir. No vice president waiting in the wings. The 2028 presidential race is an open field, and the jockeying started almost before the 2024 results were fully called. Governors are building national PACs. Senators are making sure everyone...
