President Donald Trump said early Friday his administration is resuming a broad set of tariffs on dozens of countries after a 90-day pause, as trade negotiations with many of those nations have failed to yield new deals. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews just after midnight, Trump said letters informing countries of their specific tariff rates will begin going […]
President Donald Trump will celebrate the Fourth of July on Friday with a bevy of victories. Chief among them is the passage of a significant domestic policy bill ready for the president’s signature. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” met the July 4 deadline lawmakers set after the House passed the legislation Thursday afternoon in a 218-214 […]
Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single day of trading,” reads one headline about the 38-year House member from San Francisco, who was speaker from 2007 to 2011 and 2019 to 2023. “Nancy Pelosi outperforms major hedge funds with […]
After months, the massive GOP tax cuts and spending bill is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk to become law. Republicans pushed the bill through the House in a 218-214 vote on Thursday, a day ahead of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Fourth of July deadline. The megabill, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, makes […]
For a couple of years or so in the mid-1990s, it seemed like every fourth pop song on the radio was by the Gin Blossoms. The jangly guitar-riffed, post-grunge, alt-rock band scored decent, if not blockbuster, commercial success. Highlighted by the group’s jealous guy breakout tune, “Found Out About You.” That track, sung from the […]
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 […]
