Clocking in at nine whole pages — down from 103 in 2024 — the new State Department human rights report is “functionally useless.”

A collection of U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past language on violations in El Salvador, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Israel, all seen as partners by President Trump.

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report on Tuesday.