Republican Congressman Don Bacon pushes back on “hyperpartisanship” endorsed by Bannon, why Texas says it will not review pregnancy deaths from the two years after the state began banning abortion, a conversation with former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, and more.

The chaos of the Trump/Musk GOP, a new Democratic strategy for opposing Donald Trump, Paula Hawkins’ “The Girl on the Train,” and more

Rick Wilson, Barbara McQuade, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Donald Trump’s latest administration picks, Rachel Barkow and Rep. Jim McGovern on presidential pardon power, Michele Goodwin and Marc Hearron on Republican efforts to expand the reach of state abortion bans, Imara Jones on what trans Americans are doing to prepare for another Trump administration, and Paola Ramos on Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

What President Biden’s pardons mean for Trump’s pardoning plans, an exit interview with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm,  Nikole Hannah-Jones on the future of journalism in a new Trump era.

What Kash Patel as FBI Director could mean for Trump’s retribution agenda and the rule of law, lessons on outlasting Trump’s strategic chaos, what’s behind corporate rollbacks of DEI initiatives and more.

What Donald Trump’s tariff threat would mean for American consumers, an alarming new salvo in the abortion wars,  the story of a Louisiana librarian who was relentlessly targeted for speaking out against censorship, and more

Lessons from the first successful pushback against the Trump agenda, what we’re getting wrong about the First Amendment and who it really protects, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on what we can expect from a Trump cabinet that’s shaping up to be the opposite of a Team of Rivals.

Donald Trump tells on himself with cabinet picks that herald a Project 2025 agenda; who’s behind the well-funded effort to tear down the separation of church and state in America’s public school system; and Matt Gaetz’s new gig.

The story of how America became the kind of place where a pair of billionaires can be put in charge of slashing government spending, the truth about Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, and how Senate Republicans are faring against his pressure campaign to give up their constitutional duty of advice and consent

Lessons on standing up to an autocrat by someone who’s done it before, the Trump cabinet pick who warned that “the world is not ready” for him, and a roadmap for fighting censorship from Jodi Picoult

Why finding the path forward in a new Trump era requires a reckoning with America’s history, what’s behind the almost uniquely American problem of electing women presidents, and what governing will look like in Trump’s second term