A founding principle of President Donald Trump’s MAGA platform was a return to a USA-first military policy, flirting with a 21st-century brand of isolationism. Rejecting the neoconservative principle of international American exceptionalism as the world’s police force, Trump and his supporters have said they eschew foreign entanglements that could lead to drawn-out conflicts such as […]
Congress returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, emergency subsidies were first enacted during the coronavirus pandemic and expired at the end of last year. On Jan. 8, 213 Democrats and 17 Republicans voted to extend the Obamacare subsidies for three years. […]
To hear President Donald Trump tell it, he’s bringing back the American dream of mass home ownership. Unfortunately, at this moment, “because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress,” the American dream is more of a pipe dream for many. “[E]specially younger Americans,” Trump wrote on Truth Social […]
President Donald Trump‘s bet on artificial intelligence is pushing productivity growth to 5%. And the fruits of his signature domestic achievement, his self-styled One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are set to bloom in full this year. Trump should finally feel ready to tout an economy that is shedding the dregs of Bidenomics. Instead, he is […]
Liberal activists are deploying rapid response networks across Minneapolis to impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and tensions between protesters and ICE officers are rising a week after the ICE-involved shooting of activist Renee Good in Minnesota. Following the flow of cash between mutual aid allies, some of these guerrilla-like groups, operating in communities across […]
Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s campaign office on Thursday refused to answer if he would serve a full second term if reelected, sidestepping the question and insisting he is focused on improving the key swing state. The nonanswer, coupled with a book tour set to begin later this month, will inevitably fuel the firestorm of […]
The 2025 National Hockey League Stanley Cup champions, the Florida Panthers, visited the White House on Thursday, participating in the honorary custom of sports league champions — professional and college — getting a special ceremony with the president. The Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers for the second straight year. They won the seven-game series […]
There is a thin line between being admirably ambitious and being intolerably mercenary, but in the leading awards-season contender Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet shows himself determined to dance atop that tightrope. This constitutes an act of substantial actorly bravery on the part of Chalamet, who, along with the acting chops he demonstrated in Call Me […]
The peaks and valleys of legacy media over the last quarter-century or so can be measured by charting the trajectory of Scott Adams. In the 1990s and into the new millennium, Adams attained something close to pop culture ubiquity on the strength of the widespread syndication of his comic strip Dilbert in daily newspapers, which, […]
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison over his declaration of martial law in the country while he was president on Dec. 3, 2024. Yoon was found guilty by South Korea’s Seoul Central District Court on numerous charges from his martial law decision, including the fabrication of official […]
