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Good news and bad news for Trump in the polls

The latest round of polling contains good news and bad news for both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump less than a week before their first debate showdown. Biden enjoyed his first lead in a national Fox News poll since October. It is also his largest, with the president beating Trump by 2 […]

Infirm vs. intemperate: The peril and promise of the first debate for Biden and Trump

When President Joe Biden meets former President Donald Trump on the debate stage for the first time in 2024, both men will be seeking a breakthrough in a race that has been deadlocked for months. Given a choice of two extremely familiar and broadly unpopular candidates who have recently served as president, those in the […]

Biden comes out swinging against tariffs despite keeping Trump’s in place

President Joe Biden is ramping up his campaign attacks against former President Donald Trump‘s new tariff proposals, despite maintaining, and even expanding, the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports. Biden told donors at a campaign fundraiser in McClean, Virginia earlier this week that Trump’s suggestion to put 10% or higher tariffs on all imports to the U.S. in […]

The center cannot hold: What the elections in France and the United Kingdom mean for America

Summer’s here, and the time is wrong for voting in the booths. The personal ratings of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have never been lower. The British and French economies are feeble, and Sunak and Macron’s parties are deeply unpopular with their publics. Yet both leaders have called snap elections […]

Political fractures emerge around Netanyahu speech before Congress

Normally, a visit to Congress from the leader of a key U.S. ally in wartime wouldn’t be controversial. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t a normal world leader. And his scheduled July 24 speech to a joint session of Congress has the potential to be uniquely divisive. It comes amid increased global pressure on […]

Team Biden quieter about Electoral College ‘reach’ states than Trump campaign

HOUSTON — A pair of decades-old MLB teams that have never won a World Series lead their divisions. The Seattle Mariners hold first place in the American League West, and the Milwaukee Brewers are out front in the National League Central. While the Cleveland Guardians, which last won a World Series in 1948, lead the […]

Fauci unmasked: The consequences of school closures

Dr. Anthony Fauci was the face of the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. He has sought to defend his own tenure in government in a new memoir published this week. He has also faced renewed congressional scrutiny in recent weeks. This Washington Examiner series, Fauci Unmasked, will look at his record and legacy. Part 1 looked at […]

Biden deficit-slasher messaging undercut by ballooning national debt

For most of his time in the White House, President Joe Biden has bragged about a pandemic-era drop in the national deficit that occurred on his watch. But the president’s priorities are undercutting that messaging following a new score from the government’s nonpartisan budget forecaster that finds everything from his program to cancel student loans […]

Top bitcoin miners launch new group, hope to be influential force in politics

Top bitcoin miners have launched a new nonprofit organization focused on educating and galvanizing voters around that digital asset and the broader cryptocurrency space. The miners — from Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital Holdings, and CleanSpark — registered the Bitcoin Voter Project as a nonpartisan 501(c)(4), meaning it can’t primarily support a specific candidate or political […]

America needs new friends in the Middle East

After decades of war, the United States is pivoting away from the Middle East, gearing itself for great power competition with China and Russia. But recent events bring to mind Al Pacino’s famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” And […]
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