• New Poll Reflects Broad American Distrust in Health Agencies and Their Advice

    The manner in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has run HHS – the promotion of fringe theories as a substitute for scientific methods; the replacement of scientists in key positions with anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists, and more — has consequences: Americans’ trust in federal health agencies like the CDC and its childhood vaccine recommendations is declining, and more than twice as many people think the administration’s policies have made the country less healthy as those who think they have made the nation healthier.

  • When Government Websites Become Campaign Tools: Blaming the Shutdown on Democrats Has Legal and Political Risks

    Many airports refused to show DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s message to passengers about the shutdown because it wasn’t much more than naked partisan propaganda. Since January 2025, federal communication systems –agency websites, automated emails, and public information portals –have been used not to inform, but to persuade. Each such incident may violate the Hatch Act, but collectively, they amount to a systematic campaign to transform nonpartisan federal agencies into partisan political messengers. And what sets the 2025 messaging apart isn’t just the volume and tone–it’s the scale, the coordination, and the brazenness of its political targeting.

  • Circumcision, Tylenol, and Autism? RFK Jr. Misses the Cut

    When public health officials use their platforms to promote pet theories instead of proven science, it’s not just sloppy—it’s dangerous. These pronouncements shape research priorities, regulatory decisions, and the information the public is allowed to hear. When science gets filtered through political agendas and personal crusades, public health becomes a tool of control rather than a source of trust. HHS officials wield enormous influence over Americans’ medical choices; that power demands humility and restraint—not speculation masquerading as science.

  • China “Targeting” Mississippi River System: FBI

    China’s plan to gain monopolistic control over key global industries extends to the U.S. inland waterways and major ports. Major ports in southern Louisiana serve as the gateway to the rest of the river network and the U.S. interior.

  • As Trump Champions Fossil Fuels, the World Is Betting on Renewable Energy

    If you live in the U.S., seeing how the Trump administration is hobbling the development of renewable energy, you could be forgiven for thinking that renewable energy is on the outs. But the US is n outlier: Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

  • Armed Conflict? Trump’s Venezuela Boat Strikes Test U.S. Law

    President Trump has declared that the United States is now engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels and has suggested further escalation. He has since signaled that his administration is preparing military options to target drug traffickers inside Venezuelan territory. These moves could mark a major shift in U.S. counternarcotics policy and raise legal and diplomatic questions by blurring the lines between law enforcement, interdiction, and war.

  • ADL Split Marks FBI Shift Away from Targeting Right-Wing Violence, Scholars Say

    FBI director Kash Patel last week announced that the FBI would end its working relationship with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Scholars told Axios that the FBI’s split with the ADL is but the latest piece of evidence that under Trump administration the FBI is less interested or invested in investigating hate groups and right-wing domestic terrorism, focusing instead on investigating what it deems left-wing violence.

  • Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

    A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.

  • History is repeating itself at the FBI as Agents Resist a Director’s Political Agenda

    President Trump has installed loyalists to head the DOJ and FBI – loyalists who are determined to use the organizations they lead to advance the president’s political interests. In the past 50 years, the FBI has had only one other director as overtly – if not as unabashedly — political as Kash Patel: L. Patrick Gray, who served for a year under President Richard Nixon. Gray was held accountable after he tried to help Nixon end the FBI’s Watergate investigation. Whether Kash Patel has more staying power is unclear.

  • “See You in Valhalla”: How the FBI Director Waded into the Far-Right’s Obsession with the Vikings

    At a press conference after Charlie Kirk had been killed, FBI director Kash Patel ended his speech, saying: “We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla.” References to Valhalla were an integral part of the Norse people’s mythology of Viking heroism and sacrifice — and were adopted by the Nazis, especially by Himmler’s SS, as an example of the Aryan white race supremacy. It is used today by the white supremacist elements of the far right. The majority of far-right memes on social media highlighted the apparent absurdity of someone of Patel’s ethnicity cosplaying as a Viking, but there were those who reveled in the fact that a stock phrase of violent white supremacy had found its way into the mouth of the director of the FBI.

  • “Warrior Ethos” Mistakes Military Might for True Security – and Ignores the Wisdom of Eisenhower

    Renaming the Department of Defense the “Department of War” represents far more than rebranding –it signals an escalation in the administration’s embrace of a militaristic mindset that, as long ago as 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address, and that the nation’s founders deliberately aimed to constrain.

  • Making a Scarecrow of the Law: A Former Agent’s Reaction to Recent Events at the FBI

    FBI Director Kash Patel’s ongoing campaign of political purges at the FBI leads former FBI agent Michael Feinberg to lament the assault on the Bureau’s integrity, professionalism, and political impartiality. He writes that “Right now there is some new agent trainee at Quantico, going through her paces at the FBI Academy, who will never know the honor of serving a Bureau unblemished by the taint of political weaponization. Her loss is something worth noting, and it is certainly something worth mourning.”

  • Trump’s Targeting of “Enemies” Like James Comey Echoes FBI’s Dark History of Mass Surveillance, Dirty Tricks, and Perversion of Justice Under J. Edgar Hoover

    As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies. As president, he is doing that. His campaign of vengeance will be helped by the FBI, the independence of which has been sacrificed by Director Kash Patel, who has, essentially, made the bureau an arm of the White House. It marks the first time since J. Edgar Hoover’s 48-year reign as FBI director that the FBI has been used to target people perceived to be political enemies.

  • Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened

    The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

  • Health Officials from 10 Northeast States Officially Band Together

    More states are responding to – and rebuking — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s antivaccine efforts by pulling their resources so they can provide evidence-based, science-informed vaccine guidance and coordinate public health efforts which are independent of the federal government.