In recent years, movie studios have moved to capitalize on the trendy debate over Die Hard’s status as a Christmas movie: bona fide holiday classic or an action flick that just happens to take place amid the Yuletide season? After endless cloying stories of saccharine and serendipitous love, audiences have been pining for a version of Love […]
Senate Democrats are grappling with an intraparty divide over United States support for Israel that has only grown wider as its war against Hamas drags into a second year. Roughly a third of Senate Democrats voted in favor of three failed resolutions to block the sale of offensive weaponry to Israel on Wednesday, the clearest […]
Washington Examiner Magazine Managing Editor David Mark weighs in on the chaotic transition season for Democrats, including their late-night push for judicial nominations and the political infighting hindering progress, the animosity between Republicans and Democrats, the criticisms facing Vice President Kamala Harris and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, and how these tensions are affecting the legislative […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest personal legal defenders are set to transform into his Department of Justice leadership team and will, if confirmed, face their toughest loyalty test yet as they aim to fulfill Trump’s federal law enforcement visions. Trump’s personal lawyers will fill three of the most powerful positions at the DOJ, while former Florida […]
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) will return to a far more friendly Washington next year as two of his biggest enemies step aside in a historic transfer of power. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is retiring from leadership in January, ending an 18-year tenure that Scott has compared to a dictatorship. Scott will have a […]
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson suggested that his move to leave the Democratic Party last fall should have served as an early warning that a political reckoning was coming for the party of his youth. Many political pundits were stunned when President-elect Donald Trump led Republicans to sweeping wins earlier this month, breaking apart traditionally Democratic […]
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture. A policy adviser to Trump during his first term in office, Rollins is the president of the American First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank she co-founded in 2021 that has proposed plans for the president-elect’s second and final term in […]
Republicans have flipped the script on Democrats, according to Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin. Long criticized as the party of the rich, Martin, the Democratic National Committee vice chairman, admitted the public now sees the GOP as the party of the “working class and the poor.” He told Jake Tapper on Friday that the […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James reminded retailers on Friday that pet stores will no longer be allowed to sell dogs, cats, or rabbits anymore starting on Dec. 15. The Puppy Mill Pipeline Act aims to undermine the puppy mill industry, where pets are mass-bred, mistreated, diseased, and then sold for cheap. Signed into law […]
While most of the country took President-elect Donald Trump’s victory calmly, California has emerged as something of an exception. Shortly after Trump’s victory, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) called a special session of the state legislature to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights in the face of an incoming Trump administration.” Others took their own initiatives […]
