Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Donald Trump has set Elon Musk loose on the executive branch, to stunning early effect. Musk controls the government’s payment system and may block payments he deems wasteful. He has claimed credit for unilaterally shutting…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs (widely referred to as DEIA) have been a central theme in the early days of the second Trump administration, including in a shameful and fact-free rant…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Elon Musk’s “Fork in the Road” email offering 2.3 million federal civil servants a “deferred resignation” through September set off a number of legal questions this country has never been forced to consider, and…
This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “Yes I do think so, and I think he should pardon all of those people that have been accused and who have been targeted so we can clean the slate.” —Jim Clyburn, when…
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s thwarted attempt to install Matt Gaetz as attorney general is the first major failure of Trump’s promised autocracy. It sends a message that just as in his first term, his antidemocratic excesses—as we document at State Democracy Defenders Fund in our American Autocracy Threat Tracker—can and will be checked. And although it is early…
There are 40 men on federal death row who have been convicted of capital offenses by the federal government going back as far as 1993. The offenses committed by federal death row inmates include drug-related murders, a murder in a national park, killings during terrorist attacks, and the fatal shooting of a bank guard during…
Americans of color are apparently moving to the right. Donald Trump is poised to make historic gains with nonwhite voters in November, according to recent polling, accelerating the racial depolarization of the electorate. Polls consistently show that Latinos are continuing a significant shift toward Trump, who already received a surge of Latino support in 2020….