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James Jones carries sandbags while trying to prevent water from running off a property scorched in the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., as the region remains under flash flood warnings on Saturday. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP SAN DIEGO — The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency left his job Monday after just six months, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the latest disruption in a year of mass staff departures, program cuts and policy upheaval at the agency charged with managing federal disaster response. David Richardson is leaving the post after replacing previous…

Activism / November 17, 2025 How Swing Left is learning to listen, not lecture—and rebuild trust door to door. Ad Policy A veteran canvasser knocks on doors while canvassing a neighborhood of Los Angeles on October 22, 2025, ahead of the November 4 election.(Frederic J. Brown / Getty Images) When I took a job as a church-based community organizer in 2010, I had no previous exposure to religion. As a secular Iranian American, my knowledge of the Bible was limited to my Bay Area high school’s AP English elective, Gay Literature, where we analyzed homosexual innuendo in the books of…

Emil Bove, then a Justice Department official, testifies during his nomination hearing as U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit in June 2025 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images At a Justice Department conference in February, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department’s top drug prosecutors that the Trump administration wasn’t interested in interdicting suspected drug vessels at sea anymore. Instead, he said, the U.S. should “just sink the boats,” according to three people present for the speech. At the time of Bove’s comments, President Trump had only been back in…

Feature / November 17, 2025 All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care. Illustration by Hanna Barczyk. This article appears in the December 2025 issue, with the headline “Far From Home.” It was a Sunday this past June, and Virginia Ortega was heading to work at her job cleaning hotel rooms, putting in overtime so she could pay her rent. She asked her son Cesar (a pseudonym), an autistic 16-year-old who also suffers from hallucinations, if she should find someone to watch him while she worked,…

Protesters march against the use of ICE and other federal law enforcement in Chicago on Oct. 25. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images The Defense Department is scaling back the number of federalized National Guard troops in Chicago and Portland, Ore., as weekslong court battles have stalled their deployments. A defense official, not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed to NPR that 200 California National Guard members in Oregon and 200 Texas National Guard members in Illinois will return to their home states in the coming days. The troop withdrawals were first reported…

Demonstrators hold signs asking for the release of the Epstein files during a “No Kings” protest in downtown Las Vegas on Oct. 18, 2025. Steve Marcus/AP/Las Vegas Sun hide caption toggle caption Steve Marcus/AP/Las Vegas Sun President Trump now says that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide.” In a Truth Social post Sunday evening, he again called the issue a “Democrat Hoax” intended to “deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party.” Trump noted in the lengthy post that the Justice Department now has an additional investigation focused on Democrats who…

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth salutes as he inspect a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony prior to the 57rd Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) on Nov. 4 in Seoul, South Korea. Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool/Getty Images Recent operations under the Trump administration have raised eyebrows and drawn criticism, not only because of their missions but also because of their names and the intent behind them. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced Operation Southern Spear, aimed at what he calls “narco-terrorists” who are allegedly bringing illegal drugs into the country. The Department of Homeland…

Politics / November 10, 2025 The Democratic leader’s cave-in makes it all too clear: It’s time to clean house in the Senate. Ad Policy Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer leaves a Senate Democratic caucus meeting at the US Capitol on November 9, 2025.(Nathan Posner / Anadolu via Getty Images) Last Tuesday, voters all over the United States sent a resounding message: They were sick of Donald Trump, sick of the Republican Party’s attacks on what remains of the American welfare state (seen most clearly in the ongoing government shutdown as well as threats to gut Medicaid), and wanted their elected…

President Trump arrives after being greeted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to address a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on March 4. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., once one of President Trump’s strongest supporters in Congress, called his foreign policies “not America first positions” and said his recent attacks against her can “put my life in danger.” Greene and Trump have traded barbs in last few days over the future of the Make America Great Again movement, raising new questions about the president’s firm grip on the…

Ad Policy A bronze-painted statue titled “Best Friends Forever”, depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands on October 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) The scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused children and died in a prison cell in 2019, has never gone away. It continues to explode now that House Democrats have released thousands of e-mails from Epstein and his cronies. But while the political class and mainstream media are understandably focused on the sex scandal, another dimension of the scandal goes uncovered except by independent media outlets such as Drop Site:…