President Trump announced former deputy surgeon general Dr. Erica Schwartz as his nominee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director.
In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
Iran is taunting the Trump administration over gas prices in the U.S. and threatening ports on the Persian Gulf after President Trump announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, told the U.S. in a post on the social platform X Sunday afternoon to...
A federal judge tossed President Trump’s defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal on Monday over a story it published detailing a letter Trump allegedly sent to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. Trump denies writing the letter and claims it was faked. But U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles ruled the president failed to allege “actual malice,” the high bar public figures must clear to...
When a child could die tonight from a preventable disease, no family cares about shaving a fraction of a degree from global temperatures a century from now.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Sunday called on President Trump to release government files on aliens and unidentified anomalous phenomena, often known as UFOs. Speaking on Fox News "The Big Weekend Show," Burchett urged Trump to “peel back the layers of that onion, let America decide if we can handle it. I think we can handle...
Congressional Republicans are being criticized for their silence on President Trump's erratic behavior and potential cognitive decline, as they previously scrutinized President Biden for similar behavior.
Pope Leo XIV shot back at President Trump after the president went after him on his Truth Social platform Sunday, saying he does not fear Trump. “I’m not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel, which is what the Church works for,” the pope said Monday,...
Democrat Janelle Stelson’s campaign announced on Monday that the former broadcast journalist hauled in over $2.1 million in the first quarter of fundraising this year as she eyes a rematch against Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) this November, according to figures first shared with The Hill. Stelson’s campaign said it has received contributions from 9,000 unique donors; she starts off the second...
The real national emergency is the prospect that Trump, his administration and his supporters will declare an electoral emergency and either rig or try to overturn the midterm results. The history of midterm elections and Trump’s tanking poll numbers are motivation.
In today’s issue: President Trump’s threatened blockade on the Strait of Hormuz is set to come into force at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, a maneuver meant to disrupt Iran’s chokehold on the crucial corridor for global energy trade. Trump announced the plan on Sunday, after no agreement was reached during talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, the day before, the first direct...
Sudden outrage over a long-shot bipartisan immigration reform bill sparked a public battle among House Republicans, fueled by an onslaught of online activists, that’s putting GOP divides over immigration policy squarely into the spotlight. The bill in question, the Dignity Act, is not new and has little chance of getting a vote in this Congress....
It will be more expensive than ever to attend World Cup matches held in the United States this summer, a trend that has soccer fans in the U.S. and around the world frustrated about who will have access to watch historic clashes on the pitch in person. The record-breaking prices are a clear representation of soccer’s growing popularity in North America and are being seen as a...
