Executive Branch

Empty bunkbeds await detainees at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) newest detention facility in Anson, Texas. Called the Bluebonnet Detention Center (BBDC), it will start receiving detainees during the week of Dec. 9, 2019 and is slated to accommodate up to 1,000 ICE detainees.1231bluebonnet002

As COVID-19 spreads in ICE detention, oversight is more critical than ever

John Hudak and Christine Stenglein

Thursday, May 14, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump LISTENS during a meeting with Republican members of Congress in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

In the Republican Party establishment, Trump finds tepid support

Friday, May 8, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in the daily coronavirus response briefing as seen through a window from outside of the White House press briefing room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

How instability and high turnover on the Trump staff hindered the response to COVID-19

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Thursday, May 7, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions at the daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19) task force briefing flanked by Dr. Anthony Fauci, Vice President Mike Pence, Dr. Deborah Birx and Admiral Brett Giroir at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2020. Picture taken April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Get rid of the White House Coronavirus Task Force before it kills again

Thursday, May 7, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago

Destroying trust in the media, science, and government has left America vulnerable to disaster

Marc Hetherington and Jonathan M. Ladd

Friday, May 1, 2020

People wait in a line around the block for a pop-up food pantry amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Americans give President Trump poor ratings in handling COVID-19 crisis

William A. Galston

Friday, April 17, 2020

This aerial picture shows the Washington Monument standing on the National Mall and the White House at far left in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1C9C4C2D70

Inspectors general will drain the swamp, if Trump stops attacking them

Thursday, April 16, 2020

The South Portico porch steps of the White House are seen after a renovation in Washington, U.S., August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC16122FF710

And then there were ten: With 85% turnover across President Trump’s A Team, who remains?

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Monday, April 13, 2020

US President Donald J. Trump calls on a reporter as he is joined by members of the Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks on the COVID-19 pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 07 April 2020.

Wartime leadership then and now

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at a press conference at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center during the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on March 30, 2020 in New York City.BANG MEDIA INTERNATIONAL FAMOUS PICTURES 28 HOLMES ROAD LONDON NW5 3AB UNITED KINGDOM tel +44 (0) 02 7485 1005 email: pictures@famous.uk.com

Cuomo and Trump’s daily briefings in a propaganda world

Linda Peek Schacht

Wednesday, April 8, 2020