The record, by topic

Deportation operations, detention, travel bans, refugee and asylum policy, and the legal fights over them - each decision documented with its measured effect on communities, labor, and the courts.

Latest: A second try at birthright limits, five weeks later

Tariffs, trade wars, tax and budget law, and market-moving executive action - with the documented cost to consumers, businesses, farmers, and the federal balance sheet.

Latest: Forced-labor tariffs replace the expired global surcharge

Mass layoffs, agency closures, impoundment, and the restructuring of the civil service - and what each change did to the services Americans rely on.

Latest: $810 million canceled without a vote

Public health, vaccine policy, research funding, and the science agencies - decisions traced to their documented impact on care, coverage, and American research.

Latest: Order trims universal child vaccines to 11 diseases

Energy, climate, pollution rules, public lands, and disaster response - each rollback or order recorded alongside its measured cost to health, ratepayers, and the environment.

Latest: EPA scraps carbon limits on power plants

Pardons, prosecutions, defiance of court orders, and the independence of the Justice Department - the decisions that test the limits of executive power, with the rulings that followed.

Latest: A grand jury aimed at the president's investigators

Alliances, aid, sanctions, military action, and diplomacy - how each foreign-policy decision landed abroad and what it cost the United States at home.

Latest: Iran war drains arsenal; allies told to wait years

Voting rights, DEI rollbacks, universities, and equal-protection enforcement - documented decisions and their effect on Americans' civil rights.

Latest: Federal investigators sent to probe voting before midterms

The press, public broadcasting, cultural institutions, and independent agencies - decisions affecting the institutions that hold power to account.

Latest: Federal warning signs outside the Smithsonian