Several more Republican senators have joined Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) effort to ensure food stamp benefits continue during the government shutdown. The push underscores a rift within the Senate GOP conference about how best to navigate the shutdown and the cessation of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Some Republicans are holding firm to the notion […]
The Trump administration’s recent injection of funds into U.S. coal may give the flagging industry a short-term boost. But it’s not a long-term play, as market forces will increasingly turn to renewables, experts say. The move also threatens to make the United States an increasing outlier regarding efforts to lower emissions globally and fight back […]
George Santos, recently sprung from prison when President Donald Trump cut short his sentence, has plenty of company among former House Republicans. Trump on Oct. 17 commuted the New York Republican’s sentence after the disgraced ex-lawmaker served three months of his seven-year sentence in federal prison, due to his guilty pleas on fraud and identity […]
“Shutdowns are terrible,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) admitted several times in an October television interview. Clark spoke of “families that are going to suffer.” She insisted that her party, which at least technically caused the shutdown by refusing to end a filibuster in the Senate, “take[s] that responsibility very seriously.” At the same […]
A pair of Democratic candidates in neighboring Southeastern states, who held high offices as Republicans, are aiming for something members of their new party haven’t achieved since Bill Clinton was president: win their state’s governorships. In Florida, former Rep. David Jolly is running for governor, and so is former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan in […]
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police in Tanzania’s commercial capital Friday to demand the national electoral body stop announcing election results that have sparked protests, leading to the deployment of the military and an internet shutdown. State television was broadcasting the mainland results of Wednesday’s vote in which the Chama […]
If the federal government hasn’t reopened by the time you’re reading this column, then you’ve lived to witness the Democratic Party break a lamentable record of engineering the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history. It’s not as though the political pressure hasn’t been mounting. Democrats’ share of generic congressional polling has fallen since the […]
The summer before I went to college, a much-admired older boy loaned me a copy of Scorsese on Scorsese, a book-length interview concerning Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and other pictures from the director’s early oeuvre. I had seen none of those movies. Yet, the volume was a revelation, not only because of its […]
“Don’t take drugs!” Frances McDormand’s character in Almost Famous hollers after she has deposited her son, 15-year-old aspiring rock writer William Miller (Patrick Fugit), at a raucous concert in Southern California in the early 1970s. Perhaps you had to have been a member of the Just Say No club at a tiny suburban private school […]
“Antisemitism,” the German writer August Bebel remarked more than a century ago, “is the socialism of fools.” Recent events prove as much. For many on the global Left, antisemitism, dressed up in moral righteousness, has become the latest pet cause. And regrettably, once venerable institutions are now mainstreaming it for the broader public. On Aug. […]
