During a brief presser Wednesday, a reporter asked President Joe Biden about inflation. The president responded, “I told you we’re going to have a soft landing, we’re going to have a soft landing. My policies are working. Start writing that way, OK?” There is a lot to unpack from that brief exchange. Let’s start with Biden’s […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed SB 1084 into law in May, which made Florida the first state to effectively ban cultivated meat products from development and consumption. Alabama was quick to follow with its own copycat legislation outlawing “the manufacture, sale, or distribution of food products made from cultured animal cells.” But other states thinking about similar bans, including Tennessee […]
Crypto-friendly Democrats offered their full-throated support for Vice President Harris on Wednesday night while also encouraging the campaign to seek a “reset” with the industry amid frustrations with the Biden administration. More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers and candidates, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), spoke...
A new study found no significant relationship between bail reform and crime rates, pushing back on the notion that bail reform led to the mid-pandemic spike in violent crime, the Brennan Center for Justice said Thursday. The report, published Thursday, analyzed monthly crime data from 2015 through 2022 in 22 cities that had put in...
Former President Trump has claimed he, and not President Biden or Vice President Harris, was responsible for capping the price of insulin at $35 a month. While the Trump administration implemented a temporary program under which some Medicare drug plans could voluntarily cap the cost of insulin, it was the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed...
The far left thinks a Harris administration is poised to upend a 75-year bipartisan security alliance with Israel, the only democracy in the region. The far right is convinced a Trump administration will leave Ukraine to fend off Vladimir Putin by itself. Are they right to think that? Both campaigns owe voters an answer.
Jon Stewart says former President Trump's "decline" has the former commander in chief becoming more like President Biden in the White House race, now that the president has dropped out. "I'll tell you what I think is happening, to be perfectly honest. I think he is, before our eyes, becoming Biden in this race," Stewart said of...
A federal judge has struck down rules in Missouri that aimed to limit the impact environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies have in investment advice. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough sided Wednesday with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in an order on all four counts, saying that the rules violated the First Amendment,...
The Pentagon has likely undercounted the number of sexual assaults in the military, with cases much higher than official estimates, according to new research from Brown University's Costs of War Project. Researchers looked at Defense Department data from 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, to 2023, and found levels were two to four times higher...