2026 midterms: Trump’s threat to “take over” elections, explained
President Donald Trump seemingly cannot let the 2020 election go. Despite winning convincingly in 2024, including, for the…
Trump polls: MAGA Republicans on ICE, the Epstein files, the economy.
Today, Explained will now be publishing video episodes every Saturday in audio and video, featuring compelling interviews with…
Greenland: Did Trump surrender to Denmark and Europe? Is it over?
And just like, the Greenland crisis seems to have been defused. It was a crisis of President Donald…
How Trump changed immigration and asylum at the border
When he first emerged on the political stage more than a decade ago, Donald Trump made closing America’s…
JD Vance has big plans
After a successful 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance came into the White House ready to shake things…
Will prediction markets corrupt elections and politics?
Everyone you know is about to start putting their money where their mouth is. Prediction markets are booming.…
What we learned from Trump and Hegseth’s speeches to at Quantico
When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned around 800 top military officers to Quantico, Virginia, this week, there…
Trump $100,000 H-1B visas: The cost of limiting high-skilled immigration.
With one declaration, President Donald Trump upended an aspect of our immigration system. Last week, Trump announced that…
The paradox of Trump’s deportation push
President Donald Trump has vowed to deport 1 million undocumented immigrants out of the United States every year.…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is spending billions on AI after its metaverse flop
Companies in the AI race are barreling toward a new goalpost: so-called superintelligence, or an AI model that…
Living on Mars would suck
The billionaire owners of Space X and Blue Origin have competing visions of a space-based future. Elon Musk…
Elon Musk, the America Party, and a brief history of third-party candidates
Earlier this month, Elon Musk said he wanted to form a new political party. He’d been teasing the…