As a survivor of 9/11, Fox News reporter Eric Shawn remembers the day vividly. The walk to work in New York City, the booming sound of an airplane flying overhead, and the rush to the assignment desk. What he told staff was that it wasn’t a small plane that hit the World Trade Center — […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) went all-in on California’s Proposition 50 as the Democratic counterpunch to Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting effort. Now, Newsom, who is expected to launch a 2028 presidential bid, is acknowledging that Democrats may not get everything they wanted from the new map. In an exclusive interview with the […]
MONTREAL — The punditry industrial complex has taken many hard hits over the past 11 years with predictions of President Donald Trump’s political demise. Since the self-promoting businessman and reality TV star descended the Trump Tower golden escalator in June 2015, many have said he would soon be finished. First, it was “I like people […]
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers entered the U.S. political fray this week, blasting President Donald Trump in a podcast interview. Rodgers trashed the president and the Make America Great Again movement, predicated on his belief that Trump has failed to deliver “any of his campaign promises.” The future National Football League Hall of Famer made […]
Almost every American who has ever stood in a supermarket aisle and felt an unease about how food arrives there already knows Wendell Berry, even if they have never opened one of his books. His saying “eating is an agricultural act” sounded like common sense until you noticed how much of modern life had been […]
Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Hung Cao’s shocking admission that the Iranian military caused extensive damage to the Navy base in Bahrain, saying that Iran “blew the hell out of Bahrain,” did not go unnoticed by Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi. In a social media post, early Friday morning, Araghchi expressed gratitude for the acting […]
There was a dilemma at the heart of the Republican midterm convention that every speaker had to navigate in their own way. The midterm convention was designed to address a specific decade-long problem: support for President Donald Trump isn’t easily transferable to other Republicans, especially when he isn’t on the ballot. Some Trump voters don’t […]
DALLAS — Secretary of State Marco Rubio, one of President Donald Trump’s top deputies, isn’t in Dallas this week during the Republicans‘ high-stakes midterm convention. But Rubio’s absence isn’t leaving him with a blemish on his image. Attendees and Republican candidates told the Washington Examiner that while they would have loved to see the former […]
President Donald Trump reiterated his wish for Republican voters to pretend he is on the ballot for the midterm elections, which he called “one of the most important elections.” Trump closed out the Republican Party’s two-day midterm convention in a rambling speech Thursday night, urging Republicans to “get out and vote” this November. Otherwise, Democrats […]
The second night of the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas undoubtedly belonged to Vice President JD Vance, who was greeted by loud chants of “48” as he paid tribute to Charlie Kirk and excoriated Democrats, in particular Michigan’s Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed. Beyond Vance’s barnstorming performance, and President Donald Trump’s (very) extended cameo […]
