Two months after giving a brave and memorable commencement speech at Benedictine College, NFL kicker Harrison Butker is still getting under people’s skin. The latest furor came after it was announced that he signed a lucrative contract extension with the Kansas City Chiefs. Butker signed a massive four-year contract worth $25.6 million, including $17.75 million […]

THE KAMALA HARRIS BOOM-AND-BUST CYCLE. If the polls are right, support for Vice President Kamala Harris, the new Democratic nominee for president, is booming. After months of President Joe Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls, Harris now narrowly leads Trump. The last six polls in the average show Harris […]

Vice President Kamala Harris’s choice of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as running mate solidifies the presidential race’s jump to either end of the political spectrum. When former President Donald Trump chose Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for his running mate, surprise rang out at the choice of a non-centrist, and the same echoes bounced off the […]

Initial unemployment insurance claims dropped last week by 17,000, a small but encouraging sign for overall employment levels as worries about a recession for the U.S. economy are resurfacing. Unemployment claims dropped to 233,000 for the week ending Aug. 3, down from 250,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week moving average...

Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Vice President Harris's presidential campaign, slammed former President Trump's decision to elevate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) to his running mate, saying the senator is "not ready" for office in an interview Thursday. “The fact of the matter is, Donald Trump's character is right where it needs to be," Landrieu said on...

Nicolás Maduro's fraudulent election victory in Venezuela has sparked widespread protests and calls for the release of tally sheets, as the opposition unites and the international community refuses to recognize the results.

The Harris campaign argued in a memo Thursday that union workers would help drive the Democratic ticket’s success in November ahead of a meeting in Detroit with United Auto Workers (UAW) members. Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), were set to meet Thursday afternoon with UAW members for their...

Former President Trump and Vice President Harris are tied in a new survey of Georgia voters, as Harris strengthens her position in the campaign and puts the Peach State back in play. The AARP poll published Thursday found that both Trump and Harris received 48 percent support when placed head-to-head. With third-party candidates included, Trump...

The 2024 presidential election is likely to be turbulent due to the expectation that the election will be rigged, the dangerous prospect of a contested election, the normalization of Jan. 6, and the Supreme Court's ruling that nearly everything is an official act.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a podcast interview released Thursday that she has “never been that impressed” with President Biden’s “political operation.” “I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation,” Pelosi said of Biden in an interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick on a Thursday episode of “The New Yorker...