You don’t often find the philosopher Donald Trump of Queens and the historian Thucydides of Athens in the same article. Kudos, as Thucydides would say to Foreign Policy magazine. A Foreign Policy contributor from the Rand Corp. argued last April that Trump is running a “grand experiment” in realist theory, the view of international relations […]
Throughout President Donald Trump‘s second, nonconsecutive term, pundits across the political spectrum have warned that the economy is on the cusp of mass job losses. They have cited everything from the demonstrable downward pressure on the labor market from tariffs to Trump’s orders for the Federal Reserve, an independent body, to immediately slash the federal […]
Young men are turning to fascism. I don’t use that word lightly. Hypochondriac leftists apply it to everything they dislike, from farmers’ markets to air travel. Still, when I see the combination of antisemitism, white nationalism, hostility to markets, and apologias for actual, literal Nazism (notably through the elevation of Adolf Hitler’s legal apologist, Carl […]
The best government data will be delayed again, thanks to yet another shutdown caused by the Democratic Party. But the best private data show rents fell again in January, the sixth month in a row, leaving them 1.4% lower than a year ago, the first decline in decades. President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies are […]
Enforcing federal immigration law is the remit of the federal government alone, per Supreme Court precedent — the court famously ruled against Arizona’s efforts to step up enforcement at the state level during the Obama administration — but said enforcement is a more efficient and safer process for everyone involved when state and local authorities […]
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 Friday that the president’s aggressive imposition of unilateral taxes on imports is “invalid as contrary to law.” Trump has claimed sweeping authority to impose, remove, and modify at will tariffs on any country in the world all under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act which, as the court notes, has never...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Monday he hopes House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “will listen to the pleas” of victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as he and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) prepare to hold a press conference with the individuals. “Our press conference with 10 victims of Epstein‘s sex trafficking is at 10:30...
A House panel investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has withdrawn a subpoena for former FBI Director Robert Mueller, citing his health. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in early August announced he had issued subpoenas to 10 high-profile former government officials, including Mueller. However, after the committee was informed about...
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he plans to leave Congress at the end of his term instead of run for reelection in 2026 while calling for "generational change" in the Democratic Party. Nadler, 78, a fiery Manhattan liberal who has served in the House for more than three decades, told The New York Times in...
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the hospital Monday after undergoing treatment for injuries from a car crash in New Hampshire over the weekend, his son said. “I'm happy to report that he got out of the hospital today. He’s walking, thank God," the former mayor's son Andrew Giuliani said on the “Cats...
Thousands of people turned out in cities across the U.S. on Monday to protest President Trump and billionaires on Labor Day. May Day Strong, a coalition of dozens of labor and advocacy groups, organized more than 1,000 protests and other events in more than 900 cities. The nationwide push, backed by the AFL-CIO, is dubbed...
President Trump on Monday demanded drugmakers “justify” the success of their treatments for COVID-19 amid turmoil in his administration over vaccines and other health issues. “It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!”...
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President Trump declared Washington, D.C., a “crime free zone” and pushed for other Democratic-run cities to work with his administration to bring down the crime rate in their areas. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump touted the “very popular” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and urged other Democrats to follow...
President Trump announced Monday that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as his personal lawyer during high-profile legal battles over the 2020 election results, would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. "As President of the United States of America, I am pleased to announce that Rudy Giuliani,...
Economic stress and instability among parents, caregivers and educators can have a negative impact on children's success, highlighting the need for businesses and governments to invest in good jobs, care infrastructure, and labor laws that support workers and their families.
The Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial has opened trading for its new digital currency, dubbed $WLFI, according to the company's website. “Big day - @WorldLibertyFi just launched the $WLFI token. This isn’t some meme coin, it’s the governance backbone of a real ecosystem changing how money moves,” Donald Trump Jr., President Trump’s eldest...
