Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) said she is pushing to increase the size of the child and dependent care tax credit in the Senate as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Britt, who has previously sponsored bipartisan legislation to boost the credit, told the Washington Examiner this week that she will try to get changes to the CDCTC […]
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk caused quite a stir on Thursday, exchanging insults on social media. Yet despite the very public rift, reports have emerged that they could be headed for a truce. Politico’s Dasha Burns reported that White House advisers have scheduled a call between Musk and Trump to resolve their disagreements. She […]
Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research is set to shutter at the end of June following a deluge of reporting on alleged financial mismanagement, poor leadership, and low research output. Similar academic centers hosted on college campuses across the United States share many of the same struggles that Kendi’s ill-fated venture at Boston University […]
A zeitgeist shift over laissez-faire homelessness, or “vibe shift” per the current colloquialism, is playing out in a longtime epicenter of the American epidemic: San Jose, California. The only way in which the Bay Area could reasonably be described as pathologically free-market is on this matter, right down to the “homesteading” of unoccupied land by […]
Just a few moments after Air Force One took off from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, President Donald Trump sat at his desk aboard the plane with a handful of his trusted staff members, including White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. All of them smiled as Air Force One […]
The Palestinian movement is at a crossroads. Fatah and its foremost rival for power, Hamas, are both weakened, the former by internal divisions and unpopularity and the latter by the Israeli military. Palestinian politics are entering a transitional phase, and Palestinian political institutions are dead or decaying. The aftershocks will be felt in the Middle […]
Private tensions between the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest spilled out into a public war on Thursday, ending the alliance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the most dramatic way possible. Since Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and former leader of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, started cozying up to […]
President Donald Trump’s administration recently raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%, less than three months after imposing a 25% tariff on them. But like the overall Trump policy, the steel and aluminum tariffs won’t help the United States economically. The June 3 move was a not-too-subtle rebuke to a federal court striking […]
Pavement is remembered as the epitome of ’90s slacker rock, southern California ironists who sang-talk impenetrable lyrics over meandering guitar licks, feedback, and toy instruments. With the advantage of hindsight, and with the disadvantage of living in a TikTok-ruled cultural hellscape where nothing seems that serious or that real, it’s finally obvious that Pavement made […]
Russia launched a wave of attacks against Ukraine on Friday, hitting the Eastern European country in several cities, including its capital, Kyiv. In Kyiv, four people were killed (though there were conflicting reports on that number) and 20 others were injured as Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital with missiles and drones, according to multiple reports. […]
