WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s plans to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and conduct mass deportations might soon run into a major roadblock: Mexico and the countries where the immigrants come from might not accept some of them back.

Trump on Monday signed an order to revive of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum-...Read more

President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he compounded problems in the military commissions that the Bush administration had invented in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to try people ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed to rebuild communities in North Carolina ravaged by hurricanes last year during the first trip outside Washington of his second term, saying he would ask Congress to provide additional funding for clean-up efforts and pledging to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“We’re going to supply the money....Read more

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a seafood distributor in Newark, N.J., detaining three workers, including a military veteran, sparking fear in the food industry and drawing ire from city officials.

It comes amid President Donald Trump’s vow to crack down on immigration, which has sent shockwaves throughout communities ...Read more

Orange County Public Schools says if federal immigration officers show up on campuses to interrogate or arrest students, administrators will follow the law and allow it — but will also seek permission to contact parents and refuse to hand over records without a subpoena.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday issued a directive ...Read more

Two orphaned Karen children, a Somali family of five in Kenya and a Congolese woman are among the people whose trips to Minnesota were canceled after President Trump issued an executive order suspending refugee admissions.

Jane Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota, said the resettlement agency had been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles on Friday to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county.

The trip is expected to take place on Friday afternoon but few details were provided. He is reportedly also traveling to North Carolina to inspect hurricane damage.

The California firestorms in...Read more

On a typical day, you can’t turn on the news without hearing someone say that Congress is broken. The implication is that this dereliction explains why the institution is inert and unresponsive to the American people.

There’s one element often missing from that discussion: Congress is confounding in large part because its members ...Read more

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, “It’s all about common sense.”

For over a century, presidents have pursued initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government, couching those efforts in ...Read more

The current Supreme Court has upended historic precedent on abortion protections and drawn scrutiny for ethics conflicts, while its docket remains packed with high-profile cases set to dominate headlines in the months ahead.

Yet one of its lesser-known departures from the past lies in its approach to punctuation.

Justice Neil ...Read more

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed.

The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely document Germany’s persecution of Jews and other religious and ethnic minorities.

I co-direct an international research project to ...Read more

There is a lot to unpack from President Donald Trump's second inauguration and first day in office. The tech oligarchy, which now controls how many Americans get their news and information, sat up front as honored guests. Then there were the orders that changed the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali, for which there was no demand. And ...Read more

In 2018, Vox commissioned me to write a story about medieval Catholic ideas and the radical transformation of American politics that had vaulted Donald Trump to the presidency. I thought it would be provocative to include some call-out boxes at the top that named names.

Exploring the vectors to these Catholic ideas invariably led to places such...Read more

If it wasn’t already clear — after nearly 250 years — that the pardon power is a standing invitation to abuse and corruption, two presidents confirmed it on the same day this week.

On his way out of office, Joe Biden issued a “preemptive” clemency for his siblings and their spouses; for a raft of public officials, including former ...Read more

Consent of the governed is one of the founding principles of our country. Embedded in the Declaration of Independence, it harks to the frustrations of American colonists over unjust laws and levies placed upon them by the mad king, King George III. Simply put, it is a reaction against the tyranny of centralized government and the ignorance of ...Read more

A good indication on how church-state issues will play out in Donald Trump’s second presidential term can be found in his shameless hawking of an “Inauguration Day Bible,” part of a merch promotion from which he’s personally receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties. In marketing this book ($69.99, not including shipping) ...Read more

Declaring the start of a new “golden age” for America, Donald Trump has returned to the White House. Even as his record of lies, division, and criminality continues to tarnish the office of the presidency.

Trump was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol on Monday, four years and 14 days after a mob of armed supporters stormed and desecrated the same...Read more