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How I learned to love the 9/11 Memorial — after years of being a skeptic

I refused to go see the memorial once it opened in 2011, and I made it a point to avoid the site for years after. Until, at last,...

Republicans’ Midterm Hopes Rest on the Insanity of Their Opponents

Republicans are counting on the flaws of Democratic candidates to overcome an overall political...

Draining the Swamp, Continued

How bad do you have to be when even the Qataris and UAE aren’t...

Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Seizure and the Chavez Crony Abetting It

A likely double fail in which the president both undermines the American-led global order...

For members of Congress, a picture may soon join a thousand words

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants lawmakers to be able to include images in the text of their bills, figuring it could help illustrate or simplify some of the trickier things lawmakers are trying to do in their legislation.

The Movement: Vance faces pressure over Carlson friendship

Vice President Vance is in hot water with some conservatives after a press briefing last week where he defended his friendship with Tucker Carlson. “Tucker is a friend of mine,” Vance said. “Tucker is a friend, despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things. And I’m not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because...

Congress needs a plan to remove incapable lawmakers who refuse to step down

Democracy requires that voters choose the people who represent them. But it also requires that the people charged with that responsibility must be able to discharge it. 

Senate ‘pure toss-up’ ahead of midterms: DDHQ

Fight for control of the Senate hangs in the balance with just eight weeks to go until the midterm elections, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).  The nonpartisan election analyst on Monday shifted its November forecast to “a pure toss-up” for the upper chamber of Congress for the first time since the beginning of June....

Education expert questions whether $100K-a-year colleges are worth it

Pondiscio says four-year degree holders still earn about $1 million more over a lifetime than those without one — but that math may not hold forever.

GLP-1 prescriptions for kids up more than 30,000 percent since 2019

Kids with obesity-related conditions like high cholesterol or sleep apnea were substantially more likely to be prescribed GLP-1s than those without.

The data are in: AI is not causing a jobs apocalypse

For two years, some of the loudest voices on AI have spoken on white-collar layoffs, vanishing entry-level jobs, and a generation of graduates shut out. Chief executives routinely point to AI when they announce cuts. Is AI the shiny new scapegoat on the block, or a legitimate culprit behind what would otherwise be faster job...

Economic headwinds stiffen as campaign season hits full swing

In today's issue: ▪ Midterm season enters home stretch ▪ Investigation launched into Amazon plane crash ▪ New Mexico naming controversy ▪ Dan Driscoll’s possible replacements President Trump predicted in a Labor Day message on Truth Social that Republicans would win “big” on Election Day. But Republicans are facing stiffening economic headwinds as election season kicks into high...

Massachusetts late-term abortion extremism can be help Republicans in the midterms

Democrats are aggressively promoting legal abortion through all nine months. Pro-life Republicans must highlight this.

Could Vance’s soccer mom bonus nudge married women back to the GOP?

Every Republican is liable to give you a different answer if you ask them what constitutes their party’s “base.” But from a purely demographic standpoint, it’s indisputable: older, married, working-class white men. The picture of the 2024 GOP electorate from The Associated Press’s now defunct VoteCast (a loss sure to be long lamented) is plain...

Vulnerable Republicans divided over wisdom of Trump’s midterm convention

Republican senators and candidates have mixed feelings about President Trump’s midterm election convention, with many hoping that Trump can rev up millions of MAGA voters but worried of being tied to a president with a slumping approval rating. Party officials are promising a big turnout of Senate Republican incumbents at this week’s convention, which Trump...

Rudy Giuliani urges Mamdani to not attend 9/11 anniversary

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who later worked as President Trump’s personal lawyer, publicly criticized current Mayor Zohran Mamdani for planning to attend a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero on Friday. “Frankly, whatever he’d like to say, he doesn’t agree that September 11th was an Islamic terrorist attack on the...

Trump posts updates about his DC ‘beautification’ projects

President Donald Trump made several posts on social media on Monday morning with pictures of statues and landmarks around Washington, D.C., that the National Park Service has been updating. Trump has been emphasizing his efforts to “beautify” D.C., including constructing an arch in his honor, fixing fountains and gold-plating statues, among other projects.  Each post...

Trump takes narrow Supreme Court rulings as big wins

The construction of a massive White House ballroom is moving full steam ahead after the Supreme Court found a historic preservation group likely had no right to stop it. "We have a lot of very happy construction workers," President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The $400 million project on the site of the former...

This week on the Hill: Political spotlight turns to GOP midterm convention in Dallas

The political world’s eyes are focused this week on Dallas, where Republicans are turning up the volume at a two-day convention meant to bolster the GOP’s chances in this year’s midterms. The event is being billed as a unifying and electrifying celebration of President Trump’s second term in office that is being put on by...

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