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Trump Says GOP Would Never Lose If Filibuster Ended
“President Trump rattled off a list of GOP policies that would benefit from eliminating the filibuster on Friday, including the assertion that Republicans would never lose another election if the…
Crack-Up at Heritage Foundation Is Warning for MAGA
“The Heritage Foundation is no ordinary think tank. Since the days of Ronald Reagan, it has been the conservative movement on the march, delivering ready-made policies and battle-hardened pundits to…
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Food Aid
“The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown,” the AP…
Trump Dismisses Affordability Concerns
“Republicans in Washington came away from the recent elections with a clear takeaway: focus on the high cost of living or risk big losses in next year’s midterms,” the Wall…
Senate Is No Closer to Ending the Shutdown
“A week that started with optimism ended with no obvious off-ramp for the longest government shutdown in American history,” NOTUS reports. “There’s no deal, no plan to come up with…
Hegseth Vows to Shake Up Way Pentagon Does Business
“Nearly every new defense secretary since the end of the Cold War has at some point declared war on the Pentagon’s sclerotic bureaucracy,” the New York Times reports. “Defense Secretary…
Judge Rules Against Trump Officials on Partisan Emails
“A federal district judge in Washington ruled on Friday that the Trump administration had violated the constitutional rights of furloughed federal workers by using their work email accounts to send…
Trump Exempts Hungary from Russian Oil Sanctions
“The White House said Friday that it has agreed to exempt Hungary from U.S. sanctions on buying Russian oil for one year following President Donald Trump’s meeting with Hungarian Prime…
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Trump Calls for Probe Into Meatpacking Companies
“President Trump said he has asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into meatpacking companies to determine whether they are colluding to drive up beef prices,” the Wall Street…
Great Power Diplomacy
Just published: Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger by A. Wess Mitchell. “From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by…
Flight Cancellations Could Rise to 20%
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that flight cancellations across the U.S. could rise to 15%—or even 20%—if the government shutdown continues, the Wall Street Journal reports. Said Duffy: “If this…
Democrats Have a New Winning Formula
Derek Thompson: “On the surface, Mamdani, Spanberger, and Sherrill emerged victorious in three very different campaigns. Mamdani defeated an older Democrat in an ocean-blue metropolis. In Virginia, Spanberger crushed a…
The Trump Before Trump
Andrew Sullivan: “There was something perfect about the Supreme Court’s review of President Trump’s tariff spree the week Dick Cheney passed away. What the court was weighing, after all, was…
Senate Eyes Weekend Session
“Senate Majority Leader John Thune said senators could begin voting as soon as Friday on a package of FY2026 spending bills and a stopgap funding measure that would reopen the…
Ted Cruz Says Republicans Are Scared of Tucker Carlson
Sen. Ted Cruz blasted fellow Republicans for failing to criticize Tucker Carlson, saying the conservative pundit has “spread a poison that is profoundly dangerous,” Politico reports. Said Cruz: “My colleagues,…
Labor Department Depicts White Male Workforce
“A year ago, the Labor Department’s social media messaging focused heavily on portraying a diverse assortment of employees and laborers, both in gender and race,” the Washington Post reports. “But…
Hegseth Purges Military Leaders With Little Explanation
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals over the past nine months in a series of ousters that could reshape the U.S….
Infighting Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push
“Pressure from the White House to speed up the pace of deportations has spawned infighting at the Department of Homeland Security over which tactics to use to remove more people…
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration
“Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration on Friday that will restore hundreds of millions in federal funding to the university,” the New York Times reports. Save to…
