Stephen Janis

It’s not enough to oppose Trump at the national level. Democrats need to show that they can win locally—and deliver on what working people really need.

Police violence is only on the rise, and in many cases, cop watchers are at the front lines of defending working people and communities.

Triumphant from Trump’s victory, Congressional GOP leaders are cheering for DOGE and tariffs, promising “some pain” will be worth it. Their overconfidence could be disastrous.

As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.

The tenure of Maryland’s former Chief Medical Examiner Dr. David Fowler has been under review since his controversial testimony in the case of police officer Derek Chauvin who was convicted of murdering George Floyd.

Utah real estate photographer Jahshua Grover was simply doing his job when he was accosted by Morgan County sheriffs. An investigation reveals that the Utah Department of Public Safety had alleged credibility issues with the sheriff involved.

The Police Accountability Report explores the criminal liability faced by Deputy Iverson and the recent First Amendment failures of the Henderson police department.

Donald Trump’s usual tactics to deflect blame are failing as victims of Jeffrey Epstein expose the deep inequalities that protected the predator, and now implicate Trump himself.

"Trump has been able to make this spectacle where you have disorder on one side and him on the other, and he can constantly encroach upon the civil rights of Americans by convincing us that this disorder is so systemic that only he can fix it."

Taya Graham and Stephen Janis have been on Capitol Hill covering the current federal government shutdown. They break down why the current impasse is like no other, and who is really calling the shots.