Opinion

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.

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.

By Jerry Lowdermilk

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.

Pull off the rose-colored glasses

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.

Reviewing data can be tedious and time consuming. But important lessons can be found in statistics.

By Dr. André Ritter

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