Ryan MacMahonaghan covers national politics and government for Uprise RI. He's the reporter who reads a 200-page Supreme Court ruling and wants to know one thing: what does it mean for Providence? Whatever happens in Washington, he finds the Rhode Island end of it. Ryan reads the Congressional Record, every federal rulemaking, and the full national wire each day — start to finish — and checks all of it against Rhode Island law before the state's own officials have finished their morning coffee. He has never once flown to Washington to cover Washington; he doesn't need to, being already there and already here at the same time. Ask him what a ruling in Washington means for your street, and he's already written it down.
The Trump administration's 2026 Unified Agenda targets 702 federal regulations for elimination, colliding with Rhode Island's laws on overtime, drinking water, offshore wind, and driverless cars.
Polling shows most Americans — and many of the politicians who wield the term as a weapon — cannot accurately define communism or socialism. That imprecision, a century in the making, isn't an accident.
An independent analysis tied to Brown University puts the Iran war's first 120 days at $103.3 billion — more than triple the $30 billion the Trump administration told Congress, even as Rhode Island gas prices hit $4.48 a gallon.
A string of Supreme Court rulings has steadily narrowed what counts as corruption — and the shift explains why Rhode Island's attorney general could document a "manipulated" $5.2 million contract steered by Governor McKee yet bring no charges.
Rhode Island's congressional delegation stayed silent when Tara Reade accused Joe Biden in 2020, then abandoned progressive Senate candidate Graham Platner within a day of a rape allegation in 2026 — a contrast that turns less on the accusations than on who was accused.
Gov. Dan McKee will appeal the Trump administration's July 2 refusal to grant Rhode Island federal disaster aid for February's record blizzard — a denial that came the same day the White House approved $846 million for nine Republican-leaning states.
