Despite the sheer craziness of the political and cultural landscape in recent months, one particularly nutty 2024 bingo-card item none of us expected began with the bizarre argument that the Nazis were somehow the victims of World War II. And now it’s morphed into the equally absurd claim that the Soviet Union was morally superior […]
Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, summarized the political career of Benjamin Disraeli, Britain’s great 19th century Conservative prime minister, as “failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete triumph.” There is something in this sequence that parallels President Joe Biden’s half-century in politics, although in his case ultimate and complete triumph applies only […]
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed Wednesday that the central bank is pushing back its plans for rate cuts as inflation plateaus well above the bank's target. The Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC), the central bank committee tasked with setting monetary policy, voted Wednesday to keep the federal funds rate at a range of 5.25...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Where RFK Jr. is on the ballot Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has now qualified to be on the ballot in a few states and has gained enough signatures to make the ballot in about a half dozen...
Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Mike Turner (Ohio) are calling on the Department of Justice to open a criminal referral into former President Trump's ex-fixer, Michael Cohen, for making contradicting statements to a congressional panel in 2019. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and...
To help rebuilding and recovery efforts, I call on every country to devote 1 percent of its GDP to transform camps into incubators of hope rather than more Gazas.
A policy advocacy group founded by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) is investing $500,000 into efforts to enshrine abortion rights in the Florida Constitution as a strict six-week ban takes effect in the Sunshine State. "Today, women in Florida will be stripped of nearly all their reproductive rights. An extreme, six-week abortion ban is dangerous,...
The Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates at a 23-year high as inflation has edged up and the labor market remains strong, likely pushing potential rate cuts even later into the year. Interest rates will remain at a range of 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent, where they have been since last July, the Federal...
Climate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found. Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science. The risk...