The Trump administration presented a plan Thursday to dramatically cut staffing worldwide for U.S. aid projects as part of its dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, leaving fewer than 300 workers out of thousands.
Two labor unions sued Thursday to try to stop President Trump's takedown of the U.S. Agency for International Development, arguing he's gone well beyond the presidency's powers.
The grownups in charge of the Democratic Party have made their share of errors and canoodled with extremists on all sorts of matters. However, in one regard, they’ve been pretty successful in keeping their party kind of normal: speaking about marriage and family as if they are good things. This has taken some effort by […]
The Democratic Party is adrift in a second Trump era with little idea of where to go from here. That means Democratic governors have been left to come up with their own “resistance” messaging, and the results just keep getting weirder. Democratic governors are trying to boost their “resistance” bona fides by opposing President Donald […]
I don’t think anybody quite understands what President Donald Trump is proposing in Gaza. At its most idealized form, anyway. Think of the territory reframed as a kind of Dubai. A sparkling, sprawling, high-rise fusion-mix of resort, conference center, Ferrari dealership, off-shore banking haven, yacht marina, and hotel spa. Gazans get rehoused while the futuristic […]
President Donald Trump is back at the White House, so politics are back at awards shows. Accepting an award for “global impact” at the Grammys over the weekend, singer Alicia Keys alluded to the president’s executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal government. “This is not the time to shut down […]
If you want to watch a video that perfectly captures how hopelessly out of touch the modern Democratic Party is with 99% of the nation, you couldn’t do better than the one-minute, 30-second video posted on X by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) earlier this month. Staring into the camera, Huffman announces he is about to […]
A man was murdered in Sweden last week by Islamists. What was the response of the authorities? To make it harder for people such as him to get on the wrong side of the extremists in the first place. Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian asylum-seeker, was shot in an apartment in Stockholm after he burned […]
Fire. Brimstone. Locusts. Plagues. Expensive avocados and Mexican beer. This was to be the fallout from President Donald Trump’s imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada. It was going to be the end of the world as we know it, and people in the country wouldn’t be able to afford guacamole for the Super Bowl. That […]
Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Whatley said during an interview there may be ramifications for Republican lawmakers if they do not support President Trump’s legislative agenda. “Well, I certainly think that the American people certainly expect that Congress is going to work with the president to hammer out this agenda,” Whatley said during his...