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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Even though I’m a religious person, I’ve always had a soft spot for a certain kind of cantankerous atheist. And although I’d never let myself be yoked with an unbeliever, I’ve always had a bit of an “older man” crush on Bill Maher. Maybe it’s the way his eyes crease when he tells a particularly […]
With primary provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire come 2025, either President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump will face a showdown in Congress to extend the tax cuts or let them die. But the former president has reportedly teased a plan to entirely sidestep this dilemma over his […]
