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President Donald Trump, in a tantrum that would make a 3-year-old blush, kneecapped his own party and canceled an affordable housing bill signing Wednesday, saying it “pales in comparison” with an election bill. The one that would benefit one person: Donald Trump.
“Eat real food,” the slogan behind the USDA’s new food pyramid, has been one of the most popular, bipartisan ideas hammered home by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary. But the administration Kennedy serves is making it more expensive for families to do that. Grocery prices are 26% higher than they were five years ago, according to Labor Department data. Much of this ...
The kids aren’t all right – at least, according to politicians.
The journalistic adage “we don’t report planes that land safely” means that what is deemed newsworthy often involves dysfunction and folly. Now, however, comes evidence that “good news” is not always an oxymoron. A judicial ruling has prompted two senators to prod the legislative branch to curtail certain executive branch mischief.
SpaceX’s initial public offering made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. You might think there’s not much you can buy with a hundred (or a thousand) billion dollars that you can’t buy with one billion dollars. But there is: absolute power.
Quentin Tarantino has said that he will retire after he makes his next film. (Whatever that film turns out to be; the upcoming “The Adventures of Cliff Booth” was written by Tarantino but directed by David Fincher, so it doesn’t count.) Tarantino’s reason for this tends to change with every interview – Tarantino talks a lot – but his primary impetus seems to be: He thinks filmmakers get worse when they get old. “I know film history, and from here on in, filmmakers do not get better,” he said in 2021. He was 58.
The good news about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turning greener than Kermit the Frog’s keester is President Donald Trump finally has a swamp to drain.
Way back on March 6, not long after President Donald Trump hurled America into the dumbest war imaginable, our Nobel-Peace-Prize-deficient leader declared on social media: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
The First Amendment needs all the help it can get these days. Many progressives want restrictions on “hate speech,” while Democrats weren’t shy about pushing private companies to censor “misinformation” during the pandemic. Meanwhile the FCC under a Republican president has threatened to use its licensing authority to punish broadcasters over perceived political slights. It is against this ...
As President Donald Trump sinks deeper into an Iran quagmire, he looks like a loser for joining an ill-planned war of choice and failing at peace talks. Even if a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (or MOU) is signed soon, this will not be a “peace deal” but will merely kick negotiations on all the tough issues down the road. And the MOU will most likely leave the U. S. worse off than ...
Early polling for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary has former Vice President Kamala Harris as the front-runner, followed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Some of the party’s stronger general election prospects, including Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are stuck in the low single digits.
Polls indicate that President Donald Trump is doing a lot that most Americans don’t support: The war with Iran; the arbitrary tariffs; the retribution campaign against his perceived enemies; the 250-foot Triumphal Arch; the $1.776 billion fund intended to reward Trump loyalists. (Even Republicans don’t like that one!) There’s so much that it’s hard to know what’s important. In the middle of a ...
It turns out you actually have to do things for your constituents to win elections. Who knew?
For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why. For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, summer break is associated with a significant drop in earnings and work hours. This tightens already tight family budgets and adds to the gender pay gap, as fathers don’t tend to reduce work hours in the summer. Then there’s the financial (and administrative) ...
The turmoil engulfing CBS News and “60 Minutes” has left me wondering what my grandfather Andy Rooney would make of it all. Rooney died in 2011 after more than three decades as a fixture of the newsmagazine, and with each passing year I find myself wishing we could hear one more of his droll observations about the state of the world. He had a gift for taking something maddening, absurd or just ...
The fact that a pair of Republican senators are being heralded for doing their jobs reveals just how much Congress has atrophied, especially during President Donald Trump’s second term. Freed from the president’s political yoke, Senator Thom Tillis (because he opted against running for reelection) and Senator Bill Cassidy (because he lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed opponent) have suddenly ...
I have great news for Americans worried that inflation just jumped above 4%, the highest hike in three years. It turns out rising consumer prices are fantastic!
This is a reflective time of year for me. My father, Ronald Reagan, died in June 2004, and each year I let myself drift into whatever realm my thoughts and memories lead me to. Sometimes it’s about who he was as a father — magical when I was a small child, but elusive and a bit awkward as I grew up. This year I have found myself reflecting on who he was as America’s parent — not in a political ...
Republicans are constantly saying the United States can’t afford programs that keep our country running – yet when it comes to the whims of President Donald Trump, they’re happy to foot the bill.
While most folks think that the U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on farm policy, the largest agency within USDA is the Forest Service — famous for Smokey Bear and quietly doing significant work on many fronts. As secretaries of Agriculture during the Clinton and Bush administrations, we spent years getting to know what this agency does: not only timber management but also stewardship of ...
