Amanda Becker / The 19thActing Commissioner Michelle King left as Elon Musk’s DOGE sought access to a database with information about anyone with a Social Security number.Courts & Law
Emily Elena Dugdale, Hanisha Harjani / The MarkupMatch Group, the company behind more than a dozen dating apps, has known about abusive users on its platforms for years, but leaves millions of customers in the dark.
Matt Broomfield / TruthdigTurkish airstrikes and an Islamist power in Damascus endanger the future of Syrian Kurdistan’s multiethnic democratic federation.Photo Essay
Angéline Desdevises / TruthdigPhotographer Angéline Desdevises captures life in Kurdish Syria, where the region's boldest democratic experiment finds new sources of resilience amid fresh rubble and political uncertainties.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan / DemocracyNow!By invoking Andrew Jackson, JD Vance and the Trump administration make clear their intention to cast aside the constitution in service of their agenda.LGBTQIA+
Heather Vogell / ProPublicaThe DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which fined and grounded SpaceX.Environment
Wyatt Myskow / Inside Climate NewsTrump has frozen funds on programs that create thousands of clean energy jobs across the country — most of them in Republican-led states.
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Katie Honan, Samantha Maldonado / THE CITYThe mayor says his “unnecessary ordeal” is over — but the language in a memo from the Justice Department allows charges to be refiled.
Michael Klare / TomDispatchA new breed of weapons makers has risen to challenge the power of the old guard. Expect political turbulence ahead.TD Original
Mattha Busby / TruthdigAcross the globe, policymakers are reckoning with the reality that drug use is increasing to historic levels.
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