Newsroom

When voters choose a president, they are also choosing someone to wield enormous power — and they rely on a functioning system of checks, public information, and constitutional safeguards to hold that person accountable between elections. Recent weeks have put several of those mechanisms under stress, raising concrete questions about how democratic accountability works in practice.

Donald Trump is facing a growing wave of condemnation from religious leaders, conservative allies, and members of his own political base following a series of inflammatory social media posts and escalating war rhetoric that critics say has crossed clear lines of decency. At the center of the uproar was an AI-generated image Trump shared depicting himself as Jesus Christ — dressed in robes, with glowing hands and a demon lurking in the background. Trump deleted the post rough

A sitting U.S. president and the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics are publicly feuding — and the fight centers on war, power, and who gets to define American values on the world stage.

A short documentary filmed on the front lines of Ukraine is raising urgent questions about whether the United States military is ready for the next generation of warfare. The film's message has taken on new weight as American troops are now facing the very same drone threats overseas.