Whole Hog Politics is a weekly newsletter from political editor Chris Stirewalt. Subscribe here or in the box below: On the menu: Partisan divide on NATO; Funky foliage; Dems clash over youth movement; McConnell replacement primary ugly already; Nobody comes out clean The late, great Charles Krauthammer famously told us that “bungled collusion is still...
President Trump in an interview published Friday was adamant that he was serious about his talk of adding Canada as the 51st state, something Canadian leaders have outright rejected. The president sat down for an interview with Time Magazine, where a reporter suggested Trump may have been “trolling a little bit” with his repeated comments...
President Trump blamed Ukraine for initiating the war with Russia by eying a NATO membership, adding that he thinks Crimea will stay under Moscow's control as part of a deal to end the war. In an interview with Time magazine published on Friday, Trump expressed optimism that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a peace deal...
Ukraine's officials say three people were killed by a Russian drone attack early Friday, less than a day after President Trump urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP” the assaults and focus on peace negotiations. The drone hit an apartment building in the southeastern city of Pavlohrad, killing three people and injuring at least 14,...
President Trump in a new interview suggested that he won’t be looking into "loopholes" to run again for a third term, an idea he has flirted with in the past. Trump told Time magazine that he didn’t want to discuss what he meant by his previous comments that “there are methods which you could do it.” “I’d rather not...
Several states originally objected to REAL ID requirements, but all have since come into compliance ahead of the deadline, according to federal officials.
Florida state Sen. Jason Pizzo, who was the state Senate Democratic Leader, abandoned the Democratic Party, announcing a switch to no party affiliation.
A Public Policy Institute of California report found California has among the lowest homeownership rates and the most expensive housing in the country.
There is no shortage of books or reports on the U.S.-China rivalry, especially as artificial intelligence portends to become a nuclear-like inescapable linchpin of this competition. We recently extensively dealt here with the geopolitical consequences of the AI race as laid bare in the “Super Intelligence Strategy” paper by Eric Schmidt and two executives from […]
The editors at National Public Radio made a decision to mislead their readers about a current Supreme Court Case. “Supreme Court weighs who should decide public school curriculum: Judges or school boards?” Of course, the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor was about nothing of the sort. So it’s worth inquiring what was so important in […]