Shortly after President Donald Trump started his second term, his new Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, promised, “We are committed to bringing the Iranians to going back to the 100,000 barrels a day of oil exports.” Fulfilling that commitment appears far off. In February, Iran exported 1.7 million barrels per day, mostly to China; the following […]
One of American history’s most iconic comedy bits is Abbott and Costello’s Who’s on First? In this sketch, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to discuss the positions of a baseball team whose players have confusing names: The first baseman is named “Who,” the second baseman is “What,” and the third baseman is “I Don’t […]
President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot for Monday’s federal elections in Canada, but the vote was all about him. There’s no doubt that Trump was the loser, as much as Canada’s disappointed Conservatives were. Prime Minister Mark Carney and his ruling Liberal Party came from behind to triumph by running against Trump. However, the […]
President Donald Trump is, as they say, transactional by nature, not an ideologue. His philosophy is to exert leverage by every means necessary and secure results that magnify his power and prestige. This is how he conquered the Republican Party, won the presidency twice, brokered the Abraham Accords and the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and more. But […]
U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) shrank during the first quarter of 2025 as a surge of imports ahead of President Trump's tariffs took a bite out of economic growth calculations. U.S. GDP fell at an annualized rate of 0.3 percent during the first three months of the year, according to data released Wednesday by the...
President Trump on Tuesday said he could facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month, but suggested in a recent interview that he will not. In an Oval Office interview with ABC News's Terry Moran, Trump was asked about Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who had been...
President Trump has picked dozens of fights since returning to the White House, but few have been so unrelenting as his war with the courts. Amid nearly 250 lawsuits challenging his agenda in his first 100 days, Trump has made his focus the judges overseeing them. In courtrooms, his Justice Department has argued that the...
President Trump should accept the "win" on tariffs, retreat from most of them, and focus all his energy on China, which was the real target all along, as the U.S. can afford to do this due to being the world's biggest consumer.