Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) suggested adopting the tactics of infamous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in dealing with an illegal immigrant charged with assaulting police officers. Collins was responding to a post on X from fellow Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY), who posted an image of one of six illegal immigrants who were released on bail after […]
Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) attempted to commemorate Black History Month on X only to receive backlash from opponents to his termination of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. On Tuesday, Cox signed a bill into law eliminating DEI from universities and state-level government. On Thursday, Cox posted to “honor” African Americans in his state. “February is […]
Where is the line between Texas and Mexico? It’s a question that captivated Americans in 1846 but one that most of us thought was resolved definitively in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo two years later. Instead, here in 2024, the Biden administration is conducting a bold experiment in postnationalism by reducing border enforcement to a […]
PALM DESERT, California — The budding White House race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is hardly the only campaign rematch worth watching heading into November. The neck-and-neck fight for a House majority will play out in California’s 41st Congressional District, with its eastern edge about a two-hour drive east of Los […]
In politics, two things can be true at once. For example, Vice President Kamala Harris can be historically unpopular and also a great campaigner for her party. Harris, the first female, black, and Asian American vice president, has struggled to connect with the voting public, and her approval rating sits at just 36.2%, a figure […]
HOBOKEN, New Jersey — Rep. Rob Menendez’s (D-NJ) name was his greatest political asset in his initial House bid. Now, as he seeks reelection for the first time, it may be his biggest liability. Menendez, elected in 2022 to the Jersey City-area 8th Congressional District, hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing or committed other unforced errors […]
In their negotiations with health insurers, hospital systems have found a new tactic: removing themselves from the networks of Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage is the program via which beneficiaries receive their Medicare benefits through private insurance plans. The tactic is widespread. Beginning in 2024, San Diego-based Scripps Health no longer accepts any MA plans […]
There are other universes where none of this is happening. Ones where John Roberts is a wealthy lawyer in private practice nearing retirement. Or remained on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit or is only an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Still more where Donald Trump never came down […]
Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT) is currently last in House seniority. But she’s no stranger to how Congress works — and often doesn’t. Although Maloy has never held an elected position before, the Utah native worked in politics for years, most recently as the chief legal counsel for former Rep. Chris Stewart, whom she replaced in […]
The Air Force’s premier nuclear weapons program, the next-generation Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, is running the risk of becoming the next poster child for Pentagon procurement run amok. When the Air Force first drew up plans for a modern replacement for its aging arsenal of more than 450 Cold War-era Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, […]
