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The story about boys online that Adolescence misses

Less than a month after its Netflix debut, the limited series Adolescence is already influencing public debate on internet safety and the troubling role of social media in young people’s lives. The four-episode drama follows a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a female classmate. As the story unfolds, we learn this innocent-looking child was immersed in the misogynistic […]

Pope Francis is cementing his legacy of surprises

Pope Francis has ensured that his legacy will not easily be upended. 

Barbara Lee locked in tight race with Oakland mayor rival; race too close to call

Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is neck and neck with her main rival in the Oakland special mayoral election, with the race too close to call. The initial tally of the results of the ranked-choice election shows former City Council member Loren Taylor (D) leading with 48.2 percent of the vote, just over 1,000 votes more...

How many dead Americans will it take for Democrats to start caring?

Democrats often distract from the real issue of immigration laws by talking non-stop about immigration, while failing to acknowledge the fact that enforcing immigration laws as written would prevent many murders and crimes committed by illegal aliens.

Biden, Obama-appointed judges oversee bulk of Trump cases

The Gavel is The Hill's courts newsletter. Sign up by clicking here or adding your email in the box below.  The Gavel has broken down the more than 200 lawsuits challenging major Trump administration actions and it found that most of the cases — 72 percent — have been assigned by judges appointed by a Democratic...

Jan. 6 defendants, allies vexed with Trump admin 

The Jan. 6 defendants granted sweeping clemency by President Trump are growing increasingly vexed with his administration because they don’t believe it’s delivering on his campaign promise of payback for their prosecutions. It marks the apparent end of a honeymoon period between the administration and some of Trump’s most ardent supporters, as criticisms that top...

Vance defends Trump administration’s move to deport Abrego Garcia

Vice President Vance defended the Trump administration’s move to deport Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, criticizing legal efforts to secure his return to the U.S. In a lengthy post on the social platform X on Tuesday, Vance argued that former President Biden allowed approximately 20 million undocumented immigrants into the country, which he said has...

You could be the next one unlawfully imprisoned in Trump’s Salvadoran gulag

A word exists for a prison that “functions outside a judicial system” and where “prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.” According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the word for that kind of place is a concentration camp.

We are still feeling the aftershocks of the Oklahoma City bombing 

It's been 30 years since the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in the United States: Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Morning Report — Trump tests limits of deportation powers with Abrego Garcia case

In today’s issue: The legal battle over the Trump administration’s efforts — or lack thereof — to return a mistakenly deported Maryland migrant may eventually wind up back before the Supreme Court as President Trump tests the limits of his executive power. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia already reached the high court, but on...

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