The COVID-19 era began five years ago with the cancellation of some NBA and NHL games followed by the closures of schools, churches, and businesses. Then, stay-at-home orders and social-distancing rules hit us, followed by mask mandates and, later, vaccine mandates. Of all the errors, follies, and misdeeds of this disastrous period, the most damaging […]
THE TRUMP UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. Back in 2016, when I was covering Donald Trump‘s first presidential campaign, I met a number of Republican voters who were open to Trump — they weren’t thrilled by other candidates, such as Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio — but they were not quite able to commit to supporting the […]
A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by firing squad, a method that has only been performed three times in the last 49 years.
Trump's proposal for a $5 million gold card residency permit has raised concerns about the potential for money laundering and soaring housing prices, as similar programs in Europe have led to scandals, public outrage and eventual collapse.
The Trump administration has dropped a lawsuit that sought to cut toxic emissions from a facility in a highly polluted area of Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley.” In 2023, the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Denka Performance Elastomer in an effort to get it to cut down its emissions of chloroprene. Chloroprene is a...
House Democratic leaders warned Friday that they won’t back a long-term extension of current funding levels, which GOP leaders are teeing up for a vote next week. The top Democrats — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (Calif.) — said the Republicans’ bill is a “partisan” effort “that...
The federal government canceled $400 million in grants to Columbia University amid its antisemitism probe into the school, the Justice Department's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced Friday. The cancellation is due to the university’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,” the Department of Justice, Department of Health and...
Trump has no mandate to inflict ruinous trade wars on America’s friends, disable the federal government rather than reform it and throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves.
Bipartisan legislation introduced by first-term Sens. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) would establish a nationwide response time standard for wildfires affecting public lands. Under the bill, the Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act, all wildfires on Interior Department- or Agriculture Department-administered lands would be subject to a half-hour response standard. In a statement, Sheehy...