Latest articles

Emergency funds: What are they? How much should you have?

Bankrate found nearly 59% of U.S. adults are uncomfortable with the amount in their emergency fund.

Is that slavery on your pasta? Uyghur forced labor fuels China’s food exports

China's Xinjiang region is using agricultural industrialization to dismantle traditional communities and exploit Uyghur farmers, resulting in tainted products entering global supply chains and being sold in supermarkets worldwide.

O’Malley: Calling Social Security a ‘legal Ponzi scheme’ is bull

"Social Security is not on a path for bankruptcy or insolvency," O'Malley said during a Thursday appearance on "The Hill."

Sheriff calls for state of emergency over New Jersey drone sightings

Shaun Golden, the sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey, says that more government assistance is needed to identify the drones.

Morning Report — GOP lawmakers try to pack up 2024 to ring in 2025  

In today’s issue:   By the end of next week, lawmakers will bid farewell to a legislative year that proved to be both the best and worst of times. Their leftover legislative goals before the holidays are familiar but proved onerous: keep the government funded and put the annual must-pass defense authorization measure on the president’s...

These are the Trump appointees who have faced legal troubles

President-elect Trump has named several people to his next administration who have faced legal troubles, including Trump himself who was convicted in a New York hush money case during his 2024 campaign. Some of his appointees have served jail time, including cases that involve protecting Trump on Jan. 6 during his first administration. Other convictions...

Dem claims Trump wielding nuclear strike authority ‘should terrify you’ — then people point out the obvious

Sen. Ed Markey claims people should be terrified that Trump will have nuclear strike authority, but people pushed back, noting that Trump already had that authority during his first term.

The president-elect’s relationship with the legal system will play a decisive role in his second term

President-elect Donald Trump‘s fraught, tempestuous, yet ultimately empowering relationship with the legal system has defined his political career. It dominated his first term, continued to play a critical role during his antipresidency, and is now poised to exert a decisive influence on his second administration. It will do so in the same forms it has […]

The empathy hoarders

In 2020, political writers who favored Joe Biden seemed to all coalesce on the same word: empathy. Time magazine ran a big story about “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Importance of Empathy.” The Atlantic enthused that “in the entire history of American presidential campaigns, there may never have been a wider gap in empathy […]

Trump can’t let Ukraine be his Afghanistan

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict in his second term, but it remains unclear what exactly he means to do. His Cabinet appointees are an eclectic mix of national security hawks and skeptics, and Trump himself seems far more focused on competition with the Chinese Communist Party […]

All categories

Recent comments

spot_img