EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse traded barbs over coal plant consumer costs Wednesday amid Trump's proposed 52% cut to EPA funding for 2027.
You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46% said they believed it was definitely or probably true that “the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July 2024 was orchestrated by his supporters to increase sympathy for him.” That’s a startlingly high number for […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. April 29, 1776 The time has come for the Army […]
On the heels of another debate among California’s candidates for governor, the state received more bad news about the failing high-speed rail project. Any serious candidate for governor should commit to ending the high-speed rail scam once and for all. The price tag for the high-speed rail has ballooned again, this time to a whopping […]
President Donald Trump increasingly has the same contentious yet symbiotic relationship with late-night television that he has had with the news media for the entirety of his career. Trump’s denunciations of late-night hosts such as Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert imbue these comedians-turned-commentators with new cultural relevance, even as critics sound the alarm that the […]
Gavin Newsom spent more than $450 million on a regional emergency call system that flopped, and was canceled. Meantime, the old system risks “catastrophic...
King Charles III’s state visit was carried out with impeccable diplomacy. Predictably, both the king and President Donald Trump invoked the illustrious past binding Britain and America. Much of what was said was not only appropriate but true. Britain gave America far more than a common language. Common law, foundational principles of liberty rooted in […]
President Trump's omnipresence, ambition and willingness to exercise power are making him one of the most dominant figures in American political history.
What do a sheep farmer in the Outback of Australia, a student in a Caribbean island country, a first responder in a natural disaster, and an executive on a long-haul flight have in common? They’ve all benefited from additional broadband internet connectivity delivered by low-Earth orbit satellite networks. Fortunately, the Federal Communications Commission is poised […]
At 2 p.m., the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Board will release its statement on monetary policy. The committee will keep the federal funds target range unchanged at 3.50%–3.75%. The fed funds rate is a key interest rate tool of the committee. Further, the committee will continue to signal that additional interest rate cuts […]
