Back in 2010, I coined a term to describe a specific kind of political threat: the Insidersaurus. From its very inception in my 2010 U.S. Senate campaign ad, the term was engineered to target the corrosive reality of insider politics: the insulated class of career politicians, consultants, and political elites who operate in a vacuum […]
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne hides a rock hammer inside a hollowed-out Bible. In Everett, Washington, school officials decided the Bible itself was the contraband. On Oct. 13, the Everett Public Schools board approved a settlement with LifeWise Academy, a privately funded, off-campus Bible program. The district agreed to pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees, […]
We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak about it, and ask people to defend their decision to reach across a religious or cultural divide. Meanwhile, a Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman and sent […]
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Wednesday pushed back against the Trump administration's renewed attempt to fire her from the central bank's Board of Governors, despite a Supreme Court ruling preventing her removal. Cook's lawyers, Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen, said President Trump has "no legal basis" to remove their client. The Fed governor, who was...
Almost anywhere else, we would call it a public health crisis, an occupational safety crisis and, quite possibly, a mass tort.
In the NFL today, we just call it football.
Rep. Seth Moulton and Sen. Ed Markey are squaring off for Massachusetts's Democratic Senate nod next week in the latest primary to spotlight young challengers vying to push out the party's old guard. Moulton, a 47-year-old who’s been in the House for six terms, is mounting a long-shot bid to unseat Markey, who at 80 has served on Capitol Hill for...
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Wednesday announced an investigation into a “major” cybersecurity incident that the Qilin ransomware group claimed responsibility for. The ATF said a standalone system operating separately from the agency's network did not appear to affect its enterprise network, eForms system or other systems, according to a...
In today's issue: ▪ Trump’s mail-in voting order challenged again ▪ Meta agrees to restrictions in settlement ▪ FDA approves major pancreatic cancer treatment ▪ Abbey Gate bombing fifth anniversary Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will step into the spotlight this week as he delivers his first major speech as chair, with investors anxious to see whether he...
Republicans on Capitol Hill are divided over whether to make a last-ditch push to enact legislation to stimulate the economy and cheer up voters before Election Day as the latest federal data shows the economy is slowing and inflation remains a problem. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) last month floated a fourth budget reconciliation...
Iowa Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek on Wednesday shot down the idea of former Vice President Kamala Harris campaigning for him. When pressed by a reporter at a Wednesday event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa about the topic of working with Harris during his campaign, Turek — a state representative and two-time Paralympic basketball gold medalist...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday suggested housing data centers in space amid mounting controversy surrounding the facilities’ growing presence in the U.S. “Let's take our data centers, put them in Earth orbit, take advantage of that free fusion reactor that's out there for us and use that to ensure we do win the ......
Texas state House candidate Jorge Borrego issued an apology Wednesday for past posts that featured “crude and immature jokes” after laughing the posts off earlier this week. “In no ways do those past posts represent my current sentiments and feelings,” Borrego wrote. He added that the posts stemmed from his childhood “in an environment where...
The self-proclaimed and accused "mastermind" of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center is scheduled to stand trial in 2028, according to an order issued Wednesday.
Two Phoenix, Ariz. suburbs became the latest municipalities Wednesday to terminate their contracts with Flock Safety, cancelling their use of the company’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that have drawn widespread privacy concerns. The city of Tempe, which had an $80,000 contract with the company, said it would turn off all of its Flock cameras...
