Farmers are feeling a little bit better about how things are going for their sector of the economy under President Donald Trump, after tariff fears spooked them. That is one reasonable way to read the last several months’ results of the Ag Economy Barometer, a nationwide joint survey by Purdue University and the CME Group […]
The surprise attack that Israel launched against Iran in the early hours of June 13 initiated one of history’s most ingenious, complex, and successful campaigns. A tiny country, its population barely a tenth of Iran’s, projected a multidimensional preemptive strike with pinpoint accuracy over distances up to 1,200 miles without losing a single airplane or […]
The Supreme Court has just finished a term that should please conservatives, particularly because of United States v. Skrmetti, which OK’d state laws that restrict gender-related medical interventions on minors, and Trump v. CASA, Inc., which limited district-court power to block administration policies. Yet President Donald Trump is really unhappy with the courts, and with […]
One day after Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg penned a story under the headline “Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’: The Republican Nominee’s Preoccupation with Dictators, and His Disdain for the American Military, Is Deepening,” Donald Trump was in Bucks County, putting on an apron for a day’s work at a local McDonald’s […]
Just two months after President Donald Trump began a brief detente with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, he’s ramping up his old pressure campaign. Although Trump has stopped short of reiterating his prior, but since-retracted threat to fire Powell, the president has teased announcing his nominee to replace him long before the beleaguered central bank […]
Two important things happened on May 13, 2021. The first was that, according to a bulletin posted that day on the website of the American Hospital Association, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today updated its interim guidance stating that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in […]
I am part of the repertory cinema scene in Los Angeles, that lonely confederacy of men in graphic tees, paying for parking just to watch movies you could easily rent on Amazon. So I speak from both authority and trial and error when I say the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion […]
Near the beginning of F1, veteran racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is forced to endure a brief meet-and-greet with Peter Banning, a cardboard-stereotype corporate villain played with relish by English stage veteran Tobias Menzies. “I’ve caught up on all the Drive To Survive episodes,” Banning says, and the audience is meant to understand that he […]
President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday that the White House will host a special event in honor of the Nation’s 250th birthday next July, an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight. “We’re going to have a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House. We have a lot of land there,” he announced at an event in Des […]
President Donald Trump traveled to Iowa on Thursday evening for early Fourth of July festivities. Trump’s visit commenced a yearlong run of the Iowa State Fair that will continue through next summer to commemorate the nation’s 250th birthday. The president jubilantly opened his remarks by touting the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, […]
