When economic anxiety strikes, protectionist politicians reach for the same dusty playbook: Slap tariffs on imports, invoke the national interest, and promise that “local industries” will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the markets the government just torched. The approach sounds pragmatic—even patriotic—but in practice, especially in the Middle East, it has been […]
The Trump administration has made it clear that they will not respond to emails from reporters who bother to stipulate their preferred pronouns. “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told a New York Times reporter who had asked an unrelated question. […]
On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that repeals the Biden administration’s December 2021 definition of a showerhead—saying instead that the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of showerhead will do for the purposes of federal regulations. “I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. I have to […]
A few hours after President Donald Trump announced an abrupt and partial reversal of his plans to slap huge tariffs on virtually all imports to the United States, a reporter asked him to explain the process that led to that decision. Trump’s response was a telling one. “It came together earlier this morning,” Trump explained. […]
An American citizen detained in Russia was released on Thursday in an early morning prisoner exchange. Russian authorities arrested Ksenia Karelina, who lives in Los Angeles, in early 2024 during a visit to see her 90-year-old grandmother and other family members. Law enforcement flagged her at the airport after noting she had a U.S. passport […]
For years, families have complained of cruelty from the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) when their incarcerated loved ones become seriously ill or die. Now, legislation in Congress is attempting to put a stop to what it calls inhumane treatment. Sens. Jon Ossoff (D–Ga.) and John Kennedy (R–La.) introduced legislation Wednesday—the Family Notification of Death, […]
President Donald Trump’s preferential treatment toward fossil fuels has backfired and left many American energy producers anxious about the future of the industry. The president doesn’t seem to care. On Tuesday, Trump doubled down on his fossil fuel energy agenda with an executive order to bolster “America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry.” The edict labels coal […]
Night. Quiet. Somewhere in the Middle East. Armed men in fatigues enter a structure on a residential street, flashing lights in the eyes of terrified residents. When dawn breaks, they’re encamped on the top floor, having knocked through a concrete barrier to reach an upstairs apartment. They wait. And wait. They send coded messages. And […]
Republicans claim they are slashing government, but they’re about to explode the budget deficit to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts—which would balloon interest payments on the national debt, already one of the largest expenses in the federal budget. That’s no way to slash the size of government. They could offset the lost revenue from […]
(NA) On Tuesday, GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and Democratic Rep. Josh Harder reintroduced the End Kidney Deaths Act. This law would give kidney donors who donate kidneys to strangers a $50,000 “fully refundable” tax credit, and thereby incentivize organ donation. Currently, some 40,000 Americans die each year of kidney failure, for lack of available organs. […]