It’s been nearly a year and a half since the first Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. But we still don’t really know what Israel’s end-game strategy is for the Palestinian enclave. Does Israel plan on re-occupying the territory, as it did from 1967 to 2005? Is the goal merely to force Hamas […]
Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina, who has been wrongfully detained in Russia for more than a year, has been released and is on her way back to the United States.
House Republicans failed to pass the Senate’s budget reconciliation instructions last night, setting up the possibility of Congress adjourning for two weeks without any progress on avoiding a crippling tax hike at the end of this year. The Senate Republican legislation is far from perfect, lacking the serious spending cuts needed to avoid adding to […]
The promotion of Steven Jensen, the architect of the FBI’s overzealous January 6 investigation, to head the Washington Field Office has confounded Trump supporters...
It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different words — say, “buyer-dominant” countries and “seller-dominant” countries. Perhaps […]
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) expressed uncertainty about President Trump’s trade policy to CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday. “I still don’t know exactly what his total strategy is,” Johnson said on Capitol Hill in a clip that aired on CNN’s “The Arena,” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “We know what his goal was … he...
The Senate confirmed Paul Atkins as the next Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leader. Atkins, a former Republican SEC commissioner, was greenlighted by the Senate in a 52-44 vote on Wednesday evening. President Trump nominated Atkins, a Wall Street consultant, to the head the independent financial regulator, describing him as a “proven leader for common...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s attorney John Bash is running to succeed Ken Paxton (R) as Texas’s attorney general, becoming the first candidate to throw his hat in the statewide race. Bash, who is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, said he is running because the Texas attorney general’s office is at the...