New Jersey House candidate Analilia Majia, backed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is narrowly ahead in a too-close-to-call Democratic primary.
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 […]
The Trump administration has suspended approval for most types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to a State Department cable reported by multiple media outlets. The internal memo, dated Aug. 18, instructed U.S. embassies and consulates to reject nonimmigrant visas to “all otherwise eligible Palestinian Authority passport holders” who are using that passport...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was hit by GPS jamming in what her spokesperson said was a suspected Russian operation. Von der Leyen landed safely in Bulgaria and was expected to resume her planned trip to frontline European countries. The pilot on the plane, after circling for the airport for an hour,...
The labor movement is facing unprecedented challenges from the Trump administration, including the stripping of collective bargaining rights from federal workers and the firing of Democratic members of the National Labor Relations Board, which has exposed its vulnerability to anti-union executive orders, corporate hostility and right-wing populism.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — For a few hopeful weeks this summer, a bright billboard on the major highway linking Toronto to New York greeted Canadian drivers with a simple message: "Buffalo Loves Canada.” The marketing campaign, which included a $500 gift card giveaway, was meant to show Buffalo's northern neighbors they were welcome, wanted and missed. At first,...
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President Trump stood by the steep tariffs he imposed on India as a penalty for buying Russian oil, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in a display of deepening ties with the Kremlin. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump reiterated his concerns about what...
The mask is slipping. In key midterm Senate races, so-called “moderate” Democrats are embracing extremism — defending policies that put men in women’s sports and radical ideology ahead of the will of voters. It’s an interesting turnabout for a political party that spent millions of dollars the last few cycles to convince women they were the party...
Related video – DC Bureau: Changes Atop the CDC Former directors of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday rebuked Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his leadership at the agency and for his decision to fire its director, Susan Monarez. In a New York Times op-ed,...
If federal employees’ union rights are not restored, we can expect to see a politicized civil service that puts politicians and special interests ahead of the American people.
