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It is not just Democrats in Congress who fear that Donald Trump’s war in Iran is going sideways. After a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee appeared shaken.
As Donald Trump behaves more and more like a mad king than a president – forcing America into an already disastrous war with Iran without congressional approval, targeting political enemies, babbling about building ballrooms and arches – the third round of aptly named “No Kings” protests arrives to highlight just how much our president is disliked.
A jury in Los Angeles may have just done for social media what early lawsuits did for Big Tobacco. Outside the courtroom, families who said they have lost children to the effects of these platforms gathered in shirts that read “We Are K.G.M.,” expressing solidarity with the 20-year-old plaintiff. Inside the court on Wednesday morning, the jury of the landmark case K.G.M. vs. Meta and Google ...
If there is a familiar refrain from the critics of President Donald Trump these days, it’s about his foreign policy excursions overwhelming his administration and preventing him from focusing on the economy and other domestic challenges, which register his approval rating at around 40%. Some of his MAGA loyalists are now questioning their 2024 votes for the America First candidate who criticized past presidents for fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Fetal personhood laws have been reaching new extremes in the post-Roe v. Wade era. A new ProPublica investigation shows just how far states are willing to go to invalidate pregnant people’s wishes in the interest of protecting an unborn child.
Everyone’s laughing at my president, Donald J. Trump, because he cast a mail-in ballot for a Tuesday special election in Florida. They think it’s funny that the GOP candidate he endorsed, in a district that contains the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, lost.
Most Americans probably don’t look back at March 2012 – if they remember it at all – and think of terrifyingly high gas prices. In the month when “The Hunger Games” ruled the box office and President Barack Obama was on his way to a comfortable re-election, the price of Brent crude closed the month around $123 a barrel. That would be about $175 a barrel in today’s dollars.
Federal immigration agents, hot off their success at being widely despised on the streets of American cities, are now loitering around airport security lines to lend a not-helping hand.
For those who suspect that Israel manipulated America into war, the resignation of Joe Kent, Donald Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, surely seems like confirmation.
For most of the postwar era, the United States has gone to war with partners whose military contributions ranged from moderately helpful to mainly symbolic. Britain in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to mind in the first case. Germany in the 1999 Kosovo War comes to mind in the second.
Those who quote Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” often mistake “Et tu, Brute?” as the dictator’s final line, as Caesar realizes his friend, Marcus Junius Brutus, has stabbed him. With vulgar Caesars dominating the news, from Donald Trump to Cesar Chavez, perhaps Caesar’s actual final line, “Then fall, Caesar,” offers a more appropriate lesson for our time. The allegations reported in the New York ...
I’m a pain researcher and a mom. My preteen son recently asked what kind of pain I study. I told him: menstrual pain. I explained what menstruation is, what the pain feels like, and mentioned that some of his classmates may soon experience it. To my great surprise, he didn’t roll his eyes or call it gross. Instead, he said, “That must be hard for girls trying to focus in class while in pain.”
If you’re looking for the hottest gift for your socialist situationship, you may find it in an unlikely place. Tucker Carlson’s media company just released a batch of merch, and some of it is pretty good.
A time of war is a time of sacrifice, friends. So I’m sorry to report that the war we already decisively won against Iran, the country whose military we 100% obliterated, is going to cost an additional $200 billion, presumably to ensure extra decisive winning and a side of further obliteration.
Two dissimilar government agencies have inadvertently combined to clarify the immigration debate. Stomach-turning excesses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned many Americans’ abstract political preference into something uncomfortably concrete. And the Census Bureau has demonstrated that the nation needs immigrants as much as they need the blessings of American liberty.
As campaigning for the midterm elections ramps up, I’m curious what issues Republican candidates will run on. Because at the moment, their best and only platform appears to be: “Oops.”
The nation’s highly anticipated monthly job reports have turned into the boy who cried wolf. Ever since the pandemic, these labor market estimates have been wildly inaccurate and required significant revisions. That’s troubling because major decision-makers from Washington to Wall Street no longer have reliable data, and the consequences affect every American family. The source of the problem ...
We Americans are a proud bunch. We are a nation founded on the principles of freedom and the rule of law, and our commitment to these values has propelled human flourishing to new heights and made us the leader of the free world. But in recent years, as our politics and media have become more toxic, we have become more cynical. Now our cynicism is making us stand out in a bad way. A recent Pew ...
New data has come out showing that Gen Z men across the world hold some pretty regressive views about women – even more than those of the older adults whose relationships they’re trying to emulate.
The most famous query in the history of modern warfare came from David Petraeus, then a major general, in an interview with Rick Atkinson, then a reporter, during the initial assault on Iraq: “Tell me how this ends.”
