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A Thai police officer splashes water to control fire Thursday at a house in Surin Province, which Thai local security forces say was damaged by a Cambodian artillery strike. Wason Wanichakorn/AP hide caption toggle caption Wason Wanichakorn/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes had threatened to undo a ceasefire the U.S. administration had helped broker earlier this year. Trump announced the agreement to restart the ceasefire in a social media posting following calls with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister…

Politics / December 12, 2025 Voters want the party to get tough on the industry. But Democratic leaders are following the money instead. Ad Policy House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks at a news conference at the Capitol on December 1, 2025.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)) On Thursday, Time magazine named “the architects of AI” as its 2025 “Person of the Year”—a decision that obtusely revealed one of the deepest divides in American politics. One of the covers for the Time issue is a painting by Jason Seiler that repurposes the iconic 1932 photograph Lunch atop a Skyscraper (whose photographer…

Competing health care plans failed to meet the 60-vote threshold in the Senate Thursday. With federal ACA subsidies set to expire, health insurance costs are expected to surge in the new year. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Millions of Americans who buy health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace will soon have to pay a lot more unless Congress clinches a last-minute deal. Here’s NPR’s Saige Miller.SAIGE MILLER, BYLINE: As the calendar inches closer to January 1, Congress is at a stalemate on how to address health care costs. Senate Republicans and Democrats both put forth competing health care plans, but…

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 voter carries his son as he walks into the Oak Creek Town Hall to drop off his ballot on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, in Oak Creek, Colo. Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against four more states as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to access sensitive voter data. The DOJ is also suing one Georgia county, seeking records from the 2020 election. The department has now filed suit against 18 states — mostly Democratic-led, and all states that President Trump lost in…

Politics / December 12, 2025 In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who’s angling to be the next SCOTUS justice. Plus: Michael Jordan for AG? Ad Policy Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, the most pro-death penalty justice on the court.(Erin Schaff-Pool / Getty Images)   This is a preview of Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Click here to receive this newsletter in your inbox each Friday. Fascist Trump goon and recently elevated Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories A federal judge freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention yesterday. Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March due to what Immigration and Customs Enforcement called an “administrative error.” He was eventually brought back and detained in the U.S. A federal judge ruled that the government failed to produce a lawful order for his removal from the U.S. This decision came just as lawmakers were…

Economy / December 12, 2025 Trump’s tariffs and immigration raids are driving the latest farm crisis. White farmers have stood by him year after year—and still do. Ad Policy A farmer feeds cattle in Montrose, Missouri.(Clayton Steward / Bloomberg via Getty Images) On Monday, Donald Trump announced that his administration will give farmers a $12 billion bailout—a tacit admission that his trade policies suck. Farmers have spent much of the last year complaining about rising production costs, falling crop prices and the loss of multiple markets due to Trump’s tariffs and the trade wars they have launched. All in all,…

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at Mount Airy Casino Resort on December 9, 2025 in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. Trump discussed his administration’s economic agenda and its efforts to lower the cost of living. Alex Wong/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images North America President Trump spent the week making a bold case about a booming US economy with even better times ahead, as his economic policies kick in. The problem for Trump is that polls show a wide swath of Americans aren’t feeling that optimism yet – and in his initial attempts…

President Trump, center, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, right, listen as U.S. Sen Ted Cruz, R-Tex. speaks during a signing ceremony for an executive order on AI at the White House on Dec. 11, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is seeking to challenge state laws regulating the artificial intelligence industry, according to an executive order the president signed on Thursday, The order directs the Justice Department to set up an “AI Litigation Task Force” to sue states over their AI-related laws and also directs the the…