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 […]
White House border czar Tom Homan declared a victory of sorts in Minneapolis, saying the feds are now getting "unprecedented cooperation" from local communities and the Department of Homeland Security will remove 700 officers from the state.
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran is resigning from his White House job as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, fulfilling a pledge he made to senators to avoid the appearance of a conflict.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., believed that the top two congressional Democrats were "afraid of their shadows" as DHS funding negotiations gear up.
Senate Republicans fear that the Trump-Schumer deal, which included a two-week extension to DHS funding, won't allow enough time to prevent the agency from shutting down in the coming days.
