Politics
Homan tells Democrats to ‘get the hell out of the way’ on immigration
CHICAGO — Donald Trump’s choice to lead border security efforts promised a hard line on enforcement in a speech Monday to Chicago Republicans, with apparently little room for leniency even for the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants. Tom Homan, who has been picked to serve as “border czar” in the new administration, said the children…
The rapid collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
The early days of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime — which came to a stunning end this weekend after 13 long years of civil war as rebel forces entered the capital of Damascus and Assad fled into exile — were defined by two famous pieces of graffiti. The first was written by a…
How AOC says she would approach Democrats’ top Oversight job
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for the top Democratic Oversight Committee job could give her one of the most visible perches in Congress as the party tries to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda. In her Friday letter to Democratic colleagues, the 35-year-old progressive sketched out her vision for the panel’s Democrats as they brace for another…
The United Healthcare CEO’s shooting exposed people’s hatred of American health care. Here’s how things got so bad.
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. The shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was met by many people online with a morbid sense of inevitability. The often callous nature of the US health care system has long been a point of wide discussion, with evidence piling up that the way…
Elon Musk was behind mysterious pro-Trump super PAC that invoked Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elon Musk was the sole funder of a super PAC formed in the final weeks of the election that spent millions on ads claiming Donald Trump’s position on abortion was aligned with that of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The $20.5 million that Musk put into that group, RBG PAC, accounted for…
Jeffries stays out of the way as Dems mutiny against senior panel leaders
House Democrats are poised to unseat several senior committee leaders, and Hakeem Jeffries is letting it happen. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, 76, announced this week that he would step down from the top Democratic spot on the Natural Resources Committee. Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, 77, dropped his bid to continue leading Democrats…
What to know about the South Korean president’s martial law decree
Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. South Korea is in the grip of a political crisis after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday — a shocking move that sparked mass protests and drew sharp rebuke from the country’s parliament. Though Yoon has said he will reverse his…
Harris is telling her advisers and allies to keep her political options open
Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital. But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to…
‘Delete CFPB’: Musk calls for elimination of consumer bureau
Elon Musk said Wednesday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be abolished, calling for the elimination of an agency that would potentially regulate the future payments business of the Musk-owned X platform. “Delete CFPB,” Musk, who is leading an effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump to shrink the size of the federal government,…