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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump posted an image of himself with bombs exploding all around and a message for Iran: “They better get smart soon! … No more Mr. Nice Guy!”
President Donald Trump erupted in anger at CBS journalist Norah O’Donnell after she read him excerpts from what is said to be a manifesto written by Cole Tomas Allen, the man charged with trying to kill Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Some conservatives seem to think no good can be served from reading these words, but that’s a mistake: It’s always useful to be reminded, again, of the banality of evil.
For the fifth time, the Senate Democrats last week tried to put constitutionally protected guardrails on President Donald Trump and his authority over the war in Iran. For the fifth time, Republican senators blocked them. The actions and statements of the president and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should snap Republican senators back to reality. Congress should have been consulted; it was ...
Cole Tomas Allen, who was arrested during an attempt to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday, may be America’s first normie liberal terrorist.
So a group of scientists got together and decided to give cocaine to a bunch of salmon. It sounds like the kind of fantastic idea a person comes up with while using cocaine, then talks about it for 13 consecutive hours to someone who is also doing cocaine and eagerly nodding in agreement while repeating, “It makes. So. Much. Sense.”
Just when you think the White House policy toward refugees can’t get any uglier, it sinks to new depths that should infuriate Americans of all political persuasions. After the suspension in November of a resettlement program for Afghans who helped U.S. soldiers and civilians, the Trump administration is now trying to send up to 1,100 of such Afghan refugees to the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Tucker Carlson, you might have heard, is sorry. Last week he posted a long conversation with his brother, Buckley, a former Trump speechwriter, in which they tried to make sense of the wreckage of the second Donald Trump presidency.
The House Ethics Committee wants to try to create a culture of disclosure and transparency in Washington, a place where secrecy, fear and power have long been the order of the day. A week after two representatives, California’s Eric Swalwell and Texas’ Tony Gonzales, resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct, Congress is taking a small, necessary and long overdue step to try to break the cycle of abuse and the silence that feeds it. The committee is being proactive and strongly encouraging “anyone who may have experienced sexual misconduct by a House Member or staffer, or who has knowledge of such conduct,” to get in contact.
Until recently, President Donald Trump always found a way to fail forward, through a combination of spin, threats, payoffs and bluster. OK, that’s the simplistic interpretation. The fine print tells a less-glamorous story: a man born on third base who spent decades insisting he’d hit a triple. Still, it’s hard to argue with success. When Trump entered politics, he redefined the rules of the ...
President Donald Trump is the new Gerald Ford. Fifty-two years ago, President Gerald Ford came up with “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) — a gimmick to convince voters to ignore high unemployment and rising gas and food prices during the mid-term election. There were signs, buttons, and speeches all to promote Ford’s presidency and his WIN economic plan, which consisted of asking people to ...
Last April, President Donald Trump announced what will go down as one of the dumbest economic policy decisions in American history. Nearly every economist told the president that tariffs imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were a loser — with disagreement coming mostly from how bad their impact would be — and the administration was warned the move was likely ...
University administrators sometimes ask how their institutions can best serve democracy. For decades, many believed that their role was to serve as instruments of social change. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs, especially in hiring and admissions, were one part of the tool kit. Politicized academic departments, often with the word “studies” attached to them, were another.
The defeat of Viktor Orban’s government in Hungary’s parliamentary elections may usher in a new era in Western commentary, when neither conservatives nor liberals will be tempted to draw sweeping lessons from a small landlocked country with a population smaller than the state of Michigan.
Donald Trump is the consummate dealmaker. But even the greatest dealmakers know that sometimes the best deal is no deal. If Iran is not ready to agree to Trump’s terms in the next few days, now will be one of those times.
Extremists are spreading hate online – and turning a profit.
The biggest losers in Sunday’s extraordinary election in Hungary, aside from its four-term autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán, were Russia’s Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump. Moreover, the reasons for Orbán’s fall offer surprising parallels with diminishing support for the U.S. president. And the restoration of Hungarian democracy at the ballot box offers highly relevant insights ...
With gasoline prices over $4 a gallon, the highest level since 2022, it’s clear that the war with Iran is inflicting economic pain. And not just at the pump: Food prices are poised to rise significantly if federal lawmakers do nothing to address a fertilizer crisis that was, in part, their own making.
A standard complaint people have about economic data, especially inflation data, is that it doesn’t reflect their own experience and is therefore wrong. This might annoy the economists, politicians and policymakers who are trying to use these numbers to make big decisions about the economy, but every now and then the complaint is spot-on.
Republicans are playing the victim once again – and allowing violent actors to evade the law in the process.
I should be celebrating. After decades of menopause being dismissed as “just hot flashes” by laypeople and the medical community, we’re finally seeing genuine public discourse on the topic. Celebrities are speaking out, asking for hormone treatment is no longer taboo, and women are sharing their experiences on social media without shame.
