Media reports prompt Trump to end plan to brief Musk on secret potential war plans for China
Rachel Maddow follows up on last night's breaking news that the Pentagon planned to brief Donald Trump's top campaign donor, ...
'Our client has been disappeared': Lawyer seeks answers on Venezuelan imprisoned with no due process
Lindsay Toczylowski, president of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, shares a photo of her client publicly for the first ...
Trump’s Justice Department seeks to shield president in Jan. 6 civil cases
The president is still facing several civil suits related to Jan. 6, though his Justice Department is trying to prevent this ...
Elon Musk’s Pentagon briefing to include information on China, sparking controversy
The Defense Department is poised to provide information on China to Musk, a defense contractor with financial ties to ...
Opinion
Maddow: Trump admin shows folly of blind obedience to someone who doesn't know what they're doing
Rachel Maddow reports on the ridiculous, bungled spectacle of the Trump administration's release of unredacted documents related to the JFK assassination. Donald Trump appears to have thoughtlessly ...
As GOP lawmakers face angry voters, Trump doubles down on another unpopular policy
The American people are against Putin. The American president is very much for him. That should be unsustainable in a ...
Trump is a repeat loser as his slash-and-burn rampage collides with U.S. law
Rachel Maddow reports on yet another bad day in the courts for Donald Trump as he was made to restore jobs his top campaign ...
Opinion
The biggest (and most avoidable) mistake in Trump’s release of the JFK assassination files
The White House knew unredacted JFK assassination files would expose Social Security numbers. Donald Trump did it anyway.
'The plan is to scuttle the agency': Democrats demand answers from Musk on Social Security cuts
New changes to Social Security being implemented at the end of March are seen as a way of degrading services and dismantling ...
Why Trump touted the designation of the F-47 fighter jet
Donald Trump’s fascination with and rhetoric about airplanes became an unexpected staple of his first term, which came to mind anew as the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the ...
Opinion
The Trump administration’s approach to food safety continues to be tough to swallow
The Trump administration’s approach to food safety was already controversial. Now, it’s worse. New safeguards related to food safety were poised to take effect in January 2026, but as The New York ...
Opinion
Republicans’ case against the courts rests on one weird assumption
In 2023, the GOP’s case against prosecutors was based on ridiculous and faulty assumptions. In 2025, its case against the judiciary is eerily similar.