In the most elementary of terms, the government at all levels has created the current housing crisis. On a national level, localities have all but criminalized new housing development through draconian zoning laws, though Democratic NIMBYs seem to be far worse offenders than Republican locales, while President Joe Biden lit the purchasing power of the […]
President Joe Biden will try to convince the public tonight that the state of our union is strong, but voters know it is not. Despite low unemployment and a soaring stock market, a whopping 72% of people rate the current economy as either “fair” or “poor” compared to just 28% who say it is “good” […]
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) recently joined a distinguished group of politicians that includes Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams: she is now an election denier. Porter ran for the California Senate seat that was held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein for decades until her death last year. But in the jungle primary election on Tuesday, she was […]
Wang Yi serves as head of China’s central foreign affairs commission and as foreign minister. He’s Beijing’s foreign policy supremo after President Xi Jinping. But Wang has a problem. While he’s very good at showing loyalty to Xi and conformity to the president’s wishes, Wang is not very good at building relationships or pursuing pragmatic […]
Congressional offices were inundated with tens of thousands of phone calls on Thursday from panicked young adults who had received a notification from TikTok warning that the app could be shut down by the federal government. “Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok,” the notification said, urging users to call their lawmakers and tell […]
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Wednesday to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, but in doing so, engaged in one of the sleaziest lawmaking traditions: earmarks. The bill that passed the House with broad bipartisan support contained more than 6,000 earmarks totaling $12 billion in pet projects […]
A federal judge on Thursday rejected former President Trump’s request to delay the $83.3 million judgment in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit, refusing to give Trump more time to post a bond with the deadline only a few days away. The former president and near-certain GOP nominee has mounted efforts to postpone the...