There are a hundred points to make and a hundred arguments to have about the chaos in Minneapolis, but the most salient question in the national political debate is why armed agents of the federal government killed two protesters. Yes, Gov. Tim Walz‘s (D-MN) leadership deserves criticism, as does Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s. The prudence […]
Trapped inside our home last week, my family was in search of a “snowy” movie we could watch together. After rejecting Alive, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Shining, we settled on Groundhog Day, which famously features a blizzard trapping Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Essays have been written treating Groundhog Day as […]
Do you want your sports spectating experience to come complete with political commentary from a bunch of random athletes who don’t know anything about what they are lecturing you? Well, it’s time to party like it’s 2020 again, because the NBA is back in the political arena. After the Border Patrol shooting of Alex Pretti, […]
As recently as 2009, the scolds were still warning us about a world with too many Americans. The Census Bureau then predicted a U.S. population of 400 million by 2050, with an expected 2025 population of 357 million. “Given that Americans, per person, produce many times more carbon dioxide emissions than people in developing countries,” […]
The District of Columbia funds the largest standing army the world has ever known and prints the currency that makes the world go round. Through a signature on sanctions or the shake of a hand, the district has the ability to make or break entire economies. But evidently, we cannot handle a little inclement weather […]
Read a comparison between Presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon, and more often than not, it begins and ends with scandal, abuse of power, and corruption. The term “Watergate” is synonymous with all of that, and people often use it to draw a direct line between Nixon-era abuses of power and those of today. But […]
In a recent interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump defended giving hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals visas to study in the United States. He argued that the tuition fees from Beijing more than make up for the potential espionage risks. The president even claimed that his Republican base supported this open-door immigration policy. […]
President Trump addressed his decision not to nominate National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett to chair the Federal Reserve, saying he did not want to move him from his current role. “[There] was great speculation that highly respected Kevin Hassett was going to be named Chairman of the Fed, and a great Chairman he would...
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal authorities in Los Angeles late Thursday night, according to his attorney. Lemon, now an independent journalist and a frequent critic of President Trump and his allies, had drawn scrutiny from the administration in recent days over his coverage of anti-immigration enforcement protests at a church in...
President Trump signaled Thursday that his administration would not pull back immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota, contradicting comments made earlier in the day by border czar Tom Homan about a "draw down" of federal officials in the state. “We keep our country safe. We’ll do whatever we can to keep our country safe,” Trump said...
President Trump on Friday morning announced his choice to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, naming Kevin Warsh to the role. “I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” Trump said of...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] What was Tulsi Gabbard, the nation’s highest-ranking intelligence official, doing at a suburban Atlanta elections office for the execution of...
