Kalshi bettors picked Alina Habba as the favorite to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary, but President Trump's former personal attorney quashed rumors she's taking the role.
WARRENDALE, Pennsylvania — One hour before Dave McCormick, the Republican Army veteran running for the U.S. Senate seat against Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), was set to arrive at a Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, a suburban Pittsburgh music venue, the expansive parking lot was spilling out into neighboring businesses and side streets to accommodate the crowd. Many […]
Between blue states and red states, it is easy to discern America’s geographic political polarization. Republicans move to reliably red states such as Texas, Florida, and Wyoming, while Democrats migrate similarly toward states such as Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Oregon. Subtler is the intrafamily polarization characteristic of today’s politics. For its own part, geographic polarization is […]
In the weeks since Sean “Diddy” Combs was indicted on sex trafficking and other charges, much of the conversation has focused on the celebrity fallout. What other famous faces will get swept up in the scandal? Who attended the music mogul’s infamous parties? This sort of tabloid treatment is expected, but it misses the point. The crime […]
Democratic politicians and university officials think antisemitism is nothing more than a partisan political matter to which they can pay lip service while standing by and doing nothing to address it. A report from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which includes emails and texts from university leaders, exposed exactly this. The committee […]
LATROBE, Pennsylvania — “If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole damn thing.” Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump announced these words to rallygoers in this Westmoreland County town at a packed event, which included several former Pittsburgh Steelers taking the stage to endorse him and steelworkers as well, who even got the former […]
After the political firestorm from President Joe Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage,” the White House and its allies in the media are scrambling. But no matter how they try to contextualize or downplay his words, it’s difficult to obscure the uncomfortable truth: This was no slip of the tongue. Biden’s comment reflects a broader and […]
AS ELECTION NEARS, A FINAL TORRENT OF BS. Vice President Kamala Harris got some terrible news going into the last weekend of the presidential campaign when the Labor Department reported that the economy added just 12,000 jobs in October. Even with hurricanes and a Boeing strike, economists had expected a job gain of 100,000 or 110,000 […]
