The growth of the national debt beyond the $40 trillion mark and the increase in yields on long-term Treasuries have reignited talks of a bipartisan fiscal commission. Fiscal hawks are urging action. In addition to the towering $40 trillion debt and higher interest costs, the trust funds for Social Security and Medicare face exhaustion in […]

At a glance, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is exactly the sort of Democrat who should be at risk of succumbing to an anti-establishment wave that has taken down a dozen incumbents this cycle, many of them older. Markey is 80 years old and has been in Congress longer than his opponent, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), […]

On Sunday afternoon, the United States launched strikes against Iran on Laruck Island. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account with the caption “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens.”  The video is AI-generated. It features the back of the head of a pilot of a United States aircraft […]

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, a mainstay of right-wing French politics, could not be in a better position at the moment. Coming off the first presidential debate of the election season, she is polling in a distant first-place among French voters who see her as a populist outsider resilient enough to be battered by […]