Republicans appear unlikely to coalesce around a major legislative agenda ahead of the midterm elections, a dynamic underscored by a State of the Union speech this week that was light on congressional action items. Congress always struggles to pass major bills in election years, and several factors make legislating more difficult for the GOP, which controls the House and […]
President Donald Trump fired his first American diplomatic salvos against Canada early in his second, nonconsecutive term. Hosting then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, Trump mused about making the northern neighbor of the United States a “51st state.” That February 2025 tête-à-tête between the North American leaders turned out to […]
American small businesspeople likely let out a collective gasp at the Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime. Justices on Feb. 20, in a 6-3 decision, struck down the president’s sweeping tariffs. The ruling marked an extraordinary rejection of both his signature economic policy and the lever of power he’s used to bend the […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Heading into the 2026 election cycle, predicting a Republican candidate winning the California governorship would have seemed like a sucker’s bet in the heavily Democratic state. Now it’s more of a long shot — still unlikely but increasingly plausible. It’s not that the deep blue bastion has embraced conservative politics and policy […]
The Department of Justice filed federal lawsuits on Thursday against five states for failing to answer a request for complete voter registration lists. These states are: Kentucky, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Utah, and West Virginia. Each state was sent an official request to provide such lists to the DOJ for election security verification purposes. The Department […]
What feedback would you give to the American men’s hockey team that won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics for the third time in history and the first since the 1980 Miracle on Ice? That’s right: They failed to meet the moment. CRITICS OF OLYMPIANS AT STATE OF THE UNION ARE ‘WHOLE BOWL OF […]
The American labor force is shrinking and increasingly responsible for bankrolling the largest and wealthiest generation to ever age into retirement. And that retirement is becoming increasingly expensive, with the majority of tax dollars collected sent straight to Americans 65 and older. The United States’s $38 trillion national debt now nets an annual interest bill […]
Dozens of states across the country together gave more than $380 million in Medicaid funds to medical providers who were later caught defrauding the federally funded program, and in many cases, after years of pocketing payments, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of Medicaid spending data. Some states continued to pay providers post-conviction, including a […]
At a time when the Federal Communications Commission faces genuinely difficult questions about broadband expansion, spectrum allocation, and the future of communications infrastructure, Washington instead found itself consumed by a late-night comedy segment that never even aired. The spark was simple enough. Late Show host Stephen Colbert revealed that CBS would not broadcast an interview […]
Examining campaign finance records from the most recent presidential election, one would be hard-pressed to find any white-collar profession where conservative donors put up more cash in support of Republicans than liberals did Democrats. Even physicians, long hailed by Republicans for their conservative bona fides, contributed more funds to Democrats by a 2-to-1 margin in […]
