Queen stands looking out over the Tanzanian plains facing west — pondering the fate of the United States and what that destiny will touch on her people. Like many sub-Saharan Africans, she’s confused by the severe political divide in the world’s most powerful nation and worried about how the election and its aftermath will affect the […]
Heading into a bruising reelection fight, President Joe Biden faces an abysmal 38% approval rating on the economy. Yet the White House and much of the media blame the voters for failing to understand how good they’ve had it since 2021, with pundits and cable TV hosts trying to solve the mystery of how voters […]
The agency investigating last year’s 38-car train derailment and fire near East Palestine, Ohio, has begun teasing out its findings, with the final report coming later in July. The National Transportation Safety Board found plenty of blame to go around in the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train. For instance, that […]
Be careful what you wish for, goes the old saying, because you just might get it. This truism may have upended the 2024 presidential campaign before either major party’s nomination convention has even taken place. President Joe Biden wanted an early debate, largely conducted on his terms, that would give him time to recover if […]
EXCLUSIVE — Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson has denounced the Democratic National Committee for not encouraging a competitive primary process this election cycle as the party contends with concerns over President Joe Biden‘s age and mental acuity after last week’s debate. “It was the wrong thing to do to suppress other candidates,” Williamson […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) defended President Joe Biden’s ability to carry out a second term, warning voters in the key swing state of Michigan “not to be fatalistic” about his campaign amid questions about his age and mental acuity. During a campaign stop on Thursday, Newsom reiterated his support for Biden as the party’s nominee […]
Hamas sent an updated response to the latest ceasefire proposal with Israel a couple of days ago, which represented a “breakthrough on a critical impasse,” according to a senior Biden administration official. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that he had dispatched the Israeli negotiators to meet with mediators in response […]
If someone were to put the populism of Donald Trump, the unreconstructed libertarianism of Ron Paul, the midlevel star power of Jesse Ventura, and the Texas twang of Ross Perot into a blender, Kinky Friedman might just have emerged. The singer-songwriter, man of letters, adopted son of the Lone Star State, and sort of serious […]
A group of top Democratic donors and strategists is pooling resources into a new political action committee to help fund an alternative candidate to President Joe Biden should he withdraw from the presidential race, according to a new report from the New York Times. The fund, coined the Next Generation PAC, is aiming to raise […]
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was indicted on charges of money laundering and connections to undeclared diamonds he accepted from Saudi Arabia while in office, according to the Associated Press. The indictment comes after the Federal Police accused Bolsonaro last year of attempting to smuggle in diamond jewelry worth $3 million as well as selling two […]
