Democratic National Committee members spent their summer meeting projecting a united front against President Trump and saying the gathering of party leaders was about "infrastructure," not ideology.
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The election of President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Senate and House offers a rare and timely opportunity for Washington to reshape America’s environmental and energy policies. Recent court decisions, such as the Supreme Court’s ending of the Chevron doctrine and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s challenge to the […]
Outgoing presidents in recent decades have abused their power to pardon crimes or commute sentences, but Joe Biden is taking the abuse to a new level. Presidential pardons and commutations can be good policy if judiciously awarded to deserving recipients. However, Biden is handing out blanket pardons for entire classes of crimes. Not only does […]
Weakness breeds aggression, and like the tottering international system represented by the League of Nations after World War I, today’s world order, grounded on the Pax Americana and the maritime democracies, is under severe strain. Once again, predatory dictatorships are testing their reach, most notably in Eastern Europe, where Russia is attempting to destroy Ukraine, […]
President Joe Biden is blowing a fleeting U.S. opportunity to shape the direction of post-Bashar al-Assad Syria in the U.S. national interest. Assad was responsible for the mass starvation of and repeated chemical weapons attacks against the Syrian people. His regime killed many hundreds of thousands between 2011 and 2024. Assad was also a close […]
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) apparently isn’t too badly hurt after a fall during an official congressional visit to Luxembourg, so as we wish her a speedy recovery, there’s no harm in a little levity about another of Pelosi’s travel experiences. She wasn’t “fallen” then, but for a few seconds, there was some confusion. […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is on a mission to remake his political image into one that is palatable to a new political state of affairs and recognizes the fact that his home state of Pennsylvania just voted for President-elect Donald Trump. Fetterman’s latest rebranding effort began with meeting with some of Trump’s more controversial Cabinet […]
