Ali Velshi comments on last week’s vote results: “‘Democracy is not a spectator sport’… You can’t just watch from the sidelines, and expect democracy to succeed. You have to participate and work at it… On election night 2025, in state after state, that’s exactly what voters did.”

70 years ago, at the height of the Red Scare, the United States deported Qian Xuesen, a pioneering Chinese-born aerospace engineer. The government accused Qian of being a communist, which he denied. Back in China, Qian continued his work, becoming known as the father of Chinese rocketry and laying the foundations for the nation’s missile and space programs. Former US Under Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball called Qian’s deportation “the stupidest thing this country ever did.” Now, the Trump administration is seeking to block international students from studying at Harvard, threatening to revoke the visas of Chinese international students, and cutting funding for a wide range of scientific research. This is nothing more than a self-inflicted brain drain, and its consequences, driving the world’s best and brightest away from the United States, could weaken the country for generations to come.

As Donald Trump prepares to take office again, award-winning historian and presidential biographer Jon Meacham discusses what history shows us about the resilience of democracy against the rising tide...

On President Trump’s first day in office he signed a handful of executive orders to launch his promised crackdown on immigration and declared a national emergency at the border to empower the military to support border patrol. Sending active-duty troops to the border is not new and it is legal. But, it becomes illegal when active-duty members of the U.S. military start carrying out law enforcement functions on American soil. One of Trump’s executive orders tests the legal limits of using the military to enforce domestic operations. What President Trump appears to be doing is equating immigration with territorial integrity in order to justify the use of the military at the border.