Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has been heralded as a sort of intellectual progenitor of “Trumpism” as a political philosophy. The Ohio senator’s career has evolved from his bestselling memoir and excursions in venture capital to becoming former President Donald Trump’s running mate on the 2024 GOP ticket. But for all of […]
Texas is the largest oil producer in the United States. Nothing surprising there, but the state is also, perhaps less well known, the largest producer of wind energy. It also comes in second as the country’s largest producer of solar power, behind only California. Perhaps that makes it a very good example of how energy […]
Pete Buttigieg, secretary of transportation and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has returned to the public spotlight as a possible running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee. A candidate for president in 2020, Buttigieg is a Rhodes scholar and the first openly gay man in a presidential Cabinet position. Among […]
The White House is keeping its work on proposed changes to the Supreme Court under wraps from key Senate Democrats even as some seek to offer their two cents on policies they would play a crucial role in passing during President Joe Biden’s final months in office. Several Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee surveyed […]
One of our wisest philosophers (Homer Simpson) described television as “teacher, mother, secret lover.” Reality television belongs to that final classification, a mistress we can’t quite quit yet also will never introduce to our parents. It is ubiquitous as dirt and as dirty as, well, dirt. Critics have mostly treated it like dirt, too. If […]
Democrats know they aren’t tying themselves to President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket in November. They will almost certainly be attached to Vice President Kamala Harris as their party’s presidential standard-bearer. Yet it’s unclear whether chopping half of the Biden-Harris ticket will improve downballot candidates’ odds of winning pivotal contests that could […]
A constant stream of news headlines illustrates the wave of rising global instability, from the descent of Haiti into gang rule and rising cartel violence in Mexico and South America to the war in Gaza and unrelenting attacks by Houthi rebels on global shipping. Global instability is clearly on the rise. Among the principal culprits […]
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign early Friday morning, becoming two of the most high-profile Democrats to support her bid after President Joe Biden suspended his campaign on Sunday. Barack Obama and the Harris campaign had previously been in regular talks about the endorsement after […]
Catholic social conservatives are calling on Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to clarify his statements about access to the abortion pill, mifepristone, saying that his latest stance runs contrary to his Catholic faith. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, has made opposition to abortion a central part of his public identity […]
If ever there were an event about which Americans can be justifiably, sincerely, and perpetually proud, it was surely the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. You remember: Neil Armstrong, Tranquility Base, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” — the whole bit. Yet, in a sign of the perversity […]
