Make America Great Again Inc., a top super PAC supporting former President Trump's 2024 White House campaign, says it raked in $104 million during the April-June second quarter of 2024 fundraising.
Republican Senate nominee Nella Domenici reports hauling in $2.9 million during the April-June second quarter of 2024 fundraising, a record for a U.S. Senate candidate in New Mexico.
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In Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) continued attempt to cosplay as a man of the people, the banker’s son stands at odds with former President Donald Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee-in-waiting. Hawley recently blasted Trump’s signature legislative achievement, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as not just a policy failure but heretical to religious […]
As a Midwestern suburban kid born during the Reagan administration, I grew up with no direct contact with cowboys, covered wagons, or the open trail. The only horses I ever came into close contact with were the coin-operated mechanical ones installed outside of supermarkets. In all the ways that matter, I am pure greenhorn. Nonetheless, […]
The past several months have provided much fuel for political fears both at home and abroad. But there is one worrisome political development in particular that has received too little attention: Are we in danger of a protest song revival? In May, for instance, the rapper Macklemore released “Hind’s Hall,” a song about the pro-Palestinian […]
Fredericka Mandelbaum, or Marm as she was known, was one of 150,000 Jews who left Germany and came to America in the mid-19th century hoping to escape antisemitism, restrictive laws, and poverty. When she arrived in New York City in 1850, Marm found conditions for women even worse than in Europe. Or at least for […]
The year 1989 was a watershed year in China, as it was in communist Eastern Europe, where the Berlin Wall fell that November and the Solidarity movement won Poland‘s first free elections since the end of World War II. In China, there was the massive student-led uprising against the Communist Party-controlled government at Beijing’s Tiananmen […]
Labour’s Keir Starmer has won the British election, raising questions about the next chapter in the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom. For all the talk of these ties between British prime ministers and American presidents, the truth is, it’s a pretty recent invention. Throughout America’s first century, England was seen […]
The debate over the greatest athletes of all time typically fixates on familiar names and revered figures from various sports, those whose exploits are extensively documented in the media. People recognize Michael Jordan and Babe Ruth for their persistent dominance in their sports. Yet amid these well-publicized personas, there exists a notable absence of recognition […]