President Joe Biden has fought his entire presidency to increase the corporate tax rate while also increasing tax loopholes and giveaways. This may sound contradictory: Why are you increasing corporations’ taxes and cutting their taxes at the same time? But higher rates and more loopholes is a perfectly consistent tax policy if you see the […]
Commentators on the Right and Left have been calling on the government for years to regulate social media to protect children from the apparent harms. The most common retort worldwide is that the government should have no role and that parents who don’t want their children to have an iPhone or a TikTok account should […]
The NCAA women’s Elite Eight matchup between the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and the Louisiana State University Tigers on Monday night was one for the ages. It was a highly anticipated contest featuring the defending national champions, LSU, against the team with the game’s best player, Caitlin Clark. The game was an instant classic and […]
A host of Democratic legislators have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in opposition to subjecting unhoused people to criminal penalties. Led by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), 18 Democrats argue that arresting or fining people who have no other choice for sleeping outside is unconstitutional and will trap unhoused people in a cycle...
A spring storm system that brought heavy rain, wind, snow and tornadoes across several states Tuesday is now making its way to the East Coast, putting potentially millions more in the path of severe weather. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a bulletin Wednesday that residents from the Great Lakes region, New York, New England...
A new poll found most Americans agreeing on most of the country’s core values including the right to vote and freedom of religion. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 91 percent of U.S. adults said the right to vote is either extremely or very important to the nation’s identity. Eighty-four percent of...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office is opposing former President Trump’s demand that his fast-approaching hush money trial be delayed because of prejudicial publicity. In court papers made public on Wednesday, prosecutors argued the April 15 trial date should go ahead as planned, noting it was Trump’s eighth bid to postpone the schedule as...
Billionaire investor Steve Cohen said Wednesday the increase of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will help bring forward the four-day work week. “My belief is a four-day work week is coming,” Cohen, the owner of the New York Mets, said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Cohen said l that “between the advent of AI” and...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. knocked CNN on Tuesday for the way it framed comments he made on the network's air about the "threat" he said both President Biden and former President Trump pose to the country. During an interview that aired on Erin Burnett's program Monday, Kennedy said he could “make an...
Media companies Paramount and Skydance are in talks about a possible merger, according to a new report. The two companies have been holding discussion about a potential deal in recent weeks, The New York Times reported Tuesday, noting entertainment mogul David Ellison, founder of Skydance, has met with Paramount’s board committee to discuss his vision...