When Democrats say they need a generational change in their party’s leadership, they usually aren’t referring to former President Barack Obama. Although the 63-year-old has been out of the White House for eight years, he retains his grip on the Democratic imagination. Perhaps last year loosened it some, however. Obama took it upon himself to […]
Democrats are hoping to fill the vacuum left by Republicans‘ decision to avoid town halls, planning events across the country that highlight the Trump administration’s layoffs and federal funding cuts. Last month, the campaign arm for House Republicans urged members not to hold in-person events in their districts after blowback over President Donald Trump’s Department […]
More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation as a real estate developer, Trump became familiar with the things that make a building more than merely functional but surpassingly beautiful. One senses that […]
The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display. Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that rules Gaza, perpetrated the largest slaughter of […]
I am a writer in Los Angeles, which is just a sidelong way of saying I still have roommates as I approach 30. I’m lucky in that it’s a largely frictionless affair, though the television is far too communal for someone who watches far too much of it. The other night I was catching up […]
Federal agencies submitted their plans on Thursday to the Office of Personnel Management for widespread federal worker layoffs, which will soon provide the clearest picture yet of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the U.S. federal government. Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has pursued a sweeping effort to slash the size of […]
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin’s efforts to cancel $20 billion in climate grants meant to fund clean energy projects in low-income communities have led to litigation and controversy. The grants were issued through the Biden administration’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was established as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act passed by Democrats […]
The Trump administration suffered a judicial setback on Thursday night regarding the layoffs of federal workers. It was the second such ruling against the Trump administration on the day. U.S. District Judge James Bredar ruled late Thursday that blocked the administration’s order of mass layoffs of probationary federal workers, multiple sources reported. Bredar’s decision means […]
An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link between the president and Rose, who died Sept. 30, 2024, at age 83, that, in hindsight, seems obvious. It’s one that became clear as day when Trump, on […]
A penny saved is a penny … urned? The possible impending death of the penny has piggy banks, give-a-penny-take-a-penny jars, and manufacturers of coin wrappers a bit nervous. In a move that would put the United States alongside Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the big deal commonwealth countries, more or less, President Donald Trump said […]
