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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress. The military said in a statement on social media that the strikes targeted “designated terrorist organizations,” killing three people in the first vessel, two in the second boat and…

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and other Republican leaders discussed health care plans with a vote regarding an extension of the ACA subsidies looming. Heather Diehl/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Heather Diehl/Getty Images We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The circumstances have led to deep consumer concerns about higher…

It’s a big deal that Republicans in Indiana’s state Senate last week squashed President Trump’s demands for a gerrymandered US House map that would have awarded the GOP a 9–0 congressional delegation in the state.Yes, the remaining map is still a GOP gerrymander. It ensures Republicans seven safe seats, which they won in 2024 by an average of 30 percentage points, despite netting just 58 percent of the statewide vote. A more balanced map would include as many as four districts within plausible reach of Democratic candidates.And yes, throughout the rest of the country, Republicans maintain the upper hand during…

Rob Reiner speaks onstage at the screening of “The American President” during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 25 in Hollywood. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM hide caption toggle caption Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM President Trump disparaged Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who died along with his wife over the weekend in what officials are investigating as a homicide. Their 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested. Reiner, 78, was a prominent supporter of the Democratic Party and a vocal Trump critic. “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump said in a…

Over the past year you’ve read Nation writers like Elie Mystal, Kaveh Akbar, John Nichols, Joan Walsh, Bryce Covert, Dave Zirin, Jeet Heer, Michael T. Klare, Katha Pollitt, Amy Littlefield, Gregg Gonsalves, and Sasha Abramsky take on the Trump family’s corruption, set the record straight about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s catastrophic Make America Healthy Again movement, survey the fallout and human cost of the DOGE wrecking ball, anticipate the Supreme Court’s dangerous antidemocratic rulings, and amplify successful tactics of resistance on the streets and in Congress. We publish these stories because when members of our communities are being abducted, household…

A cotton field in north Louisiana. Dylan Hawkins hide caption toggle caption Dylan Hawkins NEW ORLEANS – James Davis had the best year in his entire farming career this year. The third-generation Black row crop farmer estimated picking almost 1,300 pounds of cotton, an average of 50 bushels of soybeans, and an average of around 155 bushels of corn on 2,500 acres of his farmland in northeast Louisiana. But with U.S. commodities facing steep retaliatory tariffs overseas, he says he and many other farmers can’t sell their crops for enough to cover the loans they take out to fund the…

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters outside his office in the Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. Kevin Wolf/AP/FR33460 AP hide caption toggle caption Kevin Wolf/AP/FR33460 AP After the Senate failed to advance bills to address health care costs this week, House Republicans released proposed legislation late Friday that would not extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax subsidies but would make other changes party leaders insist will improve Americans’ access to health care. Time is running out for Congress to act. Once the subsidies for Americans who buy health care plans through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expire…

The last time a Democrat was elected as mayor of Miami, Bill Clinton was president.Over the ensuing decades, Miami became such a consistently Republican town that outgoing Mayor Francis Suarez—who was reelected in 2021 with almost 80 percent of the vote—briefly sought the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.But on Tuesday, Miami voters replaced Suarez with Democrat Eileen Higgins,a Peace Corps alumnus, former foreign service officer in Latin America, and Miami-Dade County commissioner with a track record of championing affordable housing, mass transit expansion, and environmental initiatives.Running with ardent support from President Trump—who declared before the vote, “Miami’s Mayor Race is Tuesday.…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, sitting with other senior military leaders, listen as President Trump speaks at Marine Corps Base Quantico in September 2025. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP U.S. service members — including staff officers and at least one drone pilot — are seeking advice from outside groups, fearing they could face legal consequences for any involvement in the Trump administration’s lethal strikes on suspected drug boats. Over the past three months, the U.S. has blown up more than 20 vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific that the administration says were running illicit narcotics. More…

Politics / Hiding in Plain Sight / December 12, 2025 And yet, that’s what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do. Ad Policy Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flank Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office, on August 25, 2025. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images) This week, the Supreme Court made clear that it was likely going to rule in favor of Donald Trump’s right to summarily fire board members of supposedly independent regulatory agencies. If and when such a ruling…