Last January the hedge fund Alden Global Capital sold The Baltimore Sun to David Smith, an executive at Sinclair Broadcast Group. Smith once told Trump that Sinclair was "here to deli...

What to make of the economy under Trump.

Since Kash Patel was announced as the director for the FBI, pundits have warned of a return to the era of J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the bureau for 48 years. 

The White House embraces far-right influencers; U.S.-Russia relations take a turn.

Days before Russia invaded Ukraine 3 years ago, Russian president Vladimir Putin read an essay he’d written in 2021, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” wherein he c...

Shaping government policy one X at a time. 

This week, the Senate will consider more of Trump’s Cabinet nominees, including his pick for FBI director, Kash Patel. For this midweek podcast, we're looking back at this conversatio...

Watching history get rewritten in real time. 

The former wife of the founder of the Oath Keepers on what it means for her ex-husband to be freed.