Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) appears to be living his best life. That is, at least for someone who will soon be out of a job. The fourth-term GOP senator is making the most of his remaining months in office, in part by using the time since losing his May primary runoff to Trump-backed Ken Paxton […]
California has spent years telling the rest of the country what good governance looks like. Now it is showing everyone what happens when voters refuse to accept change, no matter the results. The lesson is simple: In a state that is this committed to a particular ideological philosophy, failure is not grounds for reconsideration. It […]
The Democratic establishment is finally fighting back against the socialist takeover of the party that has been the biggest takeaway from this year’s primaries so far. Time will tell whether this resistance is too little, too late. Democratic leaders are circling the wagons around Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) against her left-wing opponent, Abdul el Sayed, […]
I learned to read through turning the pages of the New Yorker. It was the cartoons and ads that hooked me, but after I grew fascinated by silent films, I always looked in the back of the magazine for its pages of faraway weekly screenings, my head full of dreams. Sixty years on, I remember that […]
There may not be a memorandum of understanding that is so misunderstood and forgotten so quickly as the one the United States signed with Iran on June 17. It began unraveling less than a month later. The U.S. on July 11 relaunched at full scale strikes on Iranian targets, resuming the war it began alongside […]
The first round of August Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in 18 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Aug. 12. The second round will go out on Aug. 19 to those born between […]
The surge of acronym bills in Congress is a tell for American politics, marking the rise of the internet age, where citizens and lawmakers alike rely on the punchy over the deliberative. AID, or the Act for International Development, is believed to be the first piece of legislation titled with a snappy acronym headline, back […]
New Jersey Republicans are demanding answers after Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) revealed that thousands of noncitizens were mistakenly placed on the state’s voter rolls under the previous administration, sparking questions about why the error was not publicly disclosed for roughly two years after state officials discovered it. Sherrill announced this week that a software error […]
The House adjourned for its five-week August recess Thursday, with lawmakers fanning out across their districts for a crucial sprint of campaign events and voter outreach. Some members have already held their primary elections and are gearing up for their November general elections, but others are still facing off in contentious primary races. House Speaker […]
President Donald Trump took the stage at the redo White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Friday, sharing an at times unifying, at other times polarizing message laced with lots of jokes and several roasts of the media and members of his own administration during his one-hour speech. Three months after a gunman breached security in […]
