Democrats Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards advanced to a runoff Tuesday night in a special election for a U.S. House seat that has been vacant since March and will narrow the GOP's slim majority once a winner is sworn in.
Last weekend, Sen. Carlo Calenda of the Italian Republic cut off American academic Jeffrey Sachs mid-sentence. “You’re lying,” Calenda said flatly. Sachs looked extremely offended. The clip went viral because Calenda refused to treat Sachs’s sophisticated falsehoods as credible arguments. Sachs is a professor at Columbia University. In the early 1990s, he advised Russia during its transition […]
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on President Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs.” The case is another test of how far the president can stretch his executive authority. The ultimate decision by the Supreme Court will also shape the balance of power between the executive branch and Congress. Trump argues that the International […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary are urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to classify a compound known as 7-OH, or 7-hydroxymytragynine, as a Schedule I substance, placing it in the same legal category as heroin. This move would criminalize its use and block scientific research. The […]
The influence that index funds such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have had on markets is unmistakable. They are so influential that both President Donald Trump’s Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission filed a statement of interest in Texas’s lawsuit against those same companies for distorting energy markets by “using their management of stock in competing coal […]
Off-year election results are never a cause for panic, but they are a relevant data point. There is no denying that Tuesday’s election results were uniformly bad for the Republican Party. Democrats won governor’s mansions in two Democratic states, New Jersey and Virginia, a self-identified socialist won the New York City mayor’s race, another Democratic stronghold, and Democrats won a […]
For J.K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, the people in the publishing world who compile best-of lists may as well be dementors. Reader’s Digest recently published a list of the 36 Best Fantasy Book Series. Rowling’s Harry Potter series was not on the list. Here is Chicago librarian Rachel Strolle’s, who compiled the list, reason […]
President Trump on Wednesday morning will host Republicans senators at the White House for a breakfast as the government shutdown reached a record 36 days. His remarks also come after an evening of election losses for the GOP in several key races across the U.S. Trump has placed some of that blame on Republican leaders'...
