Xavier Willis

The time before an appointment is already part of an institution's work. Honest updates and small choices matter more than a better sofa, and should expose, not conceal, broken systems.

Not expensive taste. Not a personal brand. Just the small, stubborn preferences that make somebody unmistakably themselves.

Real estate agents working for Elon Musk's AI company are going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, offering to buy homes near its data center and gas-turbine power plant - on the condition that sellers give up their claims in a lawsuit over the noise.

A 22-country experiment expected the pull to copy other people to vary with culture. It found little evidence that it does.

Ten days after the Gang Suppression Force formally launched operations, an ambush north of Port-au-Prince has left four foreign soldiers missing. The UN-backed mission is the second international attempt in two years to break gang control - and its hardest test has just begun.

European consumer authorities are investigating nine game companies over virtual currencies, real-money prices and purchase rights. The question is whether players can see what they are spending before they buy.

Seven new laws put electricity, water and land-use costs in the public record. The harder test is whether communities can act on what they learn.

The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s broad attack on birthright citizenship. A narrower order now tests how much of the same policy can return through exceptions and paperwork.

Ninety-one years after the Social Security Act became law, its promise remains indispensable and financially vulnerable.

Hiroshima Day arrives as the world's nuclear arsenals are being modernized, arms control is weakening, and thousands of warheads remain ready for use.

A 49–50 vote left the war in the president’s hands, and exposed how far Congress has retreated from its own constitutional power.

More than 1,000 civilians were reportedly killed by drone attacks from January through May as strikes reached markets, schools, water systems and roads.

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that President Trump's firing of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful. In doing so, the Court overturned a 91-year-old precedent that had prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will. The decision represents the most significant expansion of presidential power over the federal government in nearly a century. Independent agencies were designed by Congress to function as a check...

The week of May 11 through May 17, 2026, produced a set of civil rights developments that, taken individually, each warranted serious coverage. Taken together, they describe something more alarming: a coordinated, sustained effort to weaken the federal government's role in protecting racial equality. Voting rights took a hit. DOJ enforcement activity against civil rights violations slowed. Immigration policing expanded in ways that civil rights organizations and international human rights...

Teen Vogue dissolved its politics team in November 2025, one day before a major election. The timing was not accidental. It was a statement, whether Conde Nast intended it to be or not, about which kinds of coverage are considered expendable when the business pressure is high enough. Teen Vogue was not just another youth publication. It was, for about a decade, one of the most consistently serious outlets in American media. It commissioned incarcerated writers. It published grassroots...

Cole Allen walked into the most press-saturated room in Washington with a shotgun and two pistols. The story everyone covered was the shooting. The story fewer people covered is what it means for journalism.