What the arch-conservative blueprint for governing looks like in real life, how the gutting of the federal workforce could hit Black workers hardest, and what happens when Big Tech coddles authoritarian leaders

How Elon Musk’s DOGE is amassing power and President Trump is making good on his promise to dismantle government.

U.S. trade partners retaliate for Trump’s tariffs, Trump’s FBI purge meets pushback, and a new era of American unseriousness on the global stage takes hold

A new shock-wave of firings by the Trump administration, Day One of Trump’s new tariffs, and the state of the most endangered Trump cabinet nominations

The consequences of President Trump’s ongoing political retribution for America’s national security with Ambassador John Bolton and Rep. Bennie Thompson, and how wealth and power in the new Trump era is leading us down a path towards American oligarchy

How Donald Trump is reshaping justice in a new term, why we can’t assume his birthright citizenship gambit is doomed to fail, and what holding the line looks like now that he’s in office

Former CIA Director John Brennan weighs in on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to serve as Director of National Intelligence, Nobel Prize-winner Maria Ressa shares crucial lessons for reporting on a government that’s hostile to the free press, and why this week’s selection for the Velshi Banned Book Club, John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is still so relevant to American life and politics that it’s still being banned.

How mixed-status families are planning for Donald Trump’s promised immigration crackdown, how Trump’s pick for CIA is being received in the Senate, and the tech that could make wildfires detectable in minutes

The California wildfires are playing into a growing insurance crisis, Mark Zuckerberg is getting fact-checked on his motivations for ending fact-checking on Meta, what Donald Trump’s sentencing means, and a timely analysis of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic ‘Fahrenheit 451’ with author Lois Lowry and fascism expert Jason Stanley.

Donald Trump’s election win will be certified on January 6, 2025 - four years after his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn  his previous election loss. Congressman Jamie Raskin reflects on that dark day, the impeachment that followed, and “the struggle between authoritarian lies and democracy” that will continue into a second Trump term.