Post readers discuss New York AG Letitia James’ aide allegedly ordering staff to target people associated with President Trump — and her Michigan counterpart saying Jews “have a moral...
It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
According to a Gallup poll, younger Americans are becoming less religious, with about a third of Gen Z and Millennials identifying as non-religious, and the number of Americans overall who are not religious has nearly tripled since 2000.
Former President Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson are among the most liked politicians, according to new YouGov surveys. In one YouGov survey on Democratic figures, 58 percent of respondents said they felt “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” toward Obama. Meanwhile, 36 percent said they either...
Pollster Nate Silver revealed his early prediction for who he could see at the top of the Democratic Party's 2028 ticket on Wednesday: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). In a video and newsletter published to his “Silver Bulletin" Substack, Silver and former FiveThirtyEight podcast host Galen Druke both signaled that Ocasio-Cortez, 35, is the likely pick...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris leads in a hypothetical gubernatorial primary in her home state of California, according to a new poll, but half of voters say they do not think she should enter the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The survey from Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics/The Hill found 31 percent...
President Trump slammed the “too late” Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell after he warned of the economy facing stagflation due to the president’s sweeping tariff agenda, adding that his termination cannot come soon enough. “The [European Central Bank] is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, ‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell of...
Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy to Russia and Iran, is making major concessions at the expense of strategic long-term considerations, complicating our national security challenges and making them far more difficult to solve.
President Trump has sought to take shortcuts in the otherwise lengthy regulatory process via executive order that could mark a notable expansion in presidential power. In recent weeks, Trump has directed federal agencies to withdraw various rules, sunset vast swaths of environmental protections and give regulatory exemptions to dozens of coal plants. Such moves would mean skipping...
In today’s issue: President Trump’s efforts to persuade international partners to join the U.S. in isolating China collided Wednesday with a starkly downbeat 2025 economic outlook from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, dashing the hopes of those looking for global certainty anytime soon. Multiple tariff deals Trump hopes to negotiate with Asian nations are becoming...
President Trump’s potential tariffs on semiconductors are stoking alarm within the technology sector as companies brace for the ripple effects across the industry and its competitive standing on a global stage. The Trump administration launched an investigation this week into the effects on national security of importing semiconductor technology, just one day after the president...
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) has requested a congressional delegation to visit a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has sent numerous deportees. In a Wednesday letter addressed to House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Ramirez asked “that the House Committee on Homeland Security authorize a Congressional Member Delegation (CODEL) to...
