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Trump Sues Jamie Dimon for $5 Billion
“President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon in a $5 billion lawsuit filed Thursday, accusing the financial institution of debanking him for political reasons,” Fox…
Judge Rejects Attempt to Charge Don Lemon
“A federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s initial attempt to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters who breached a Minnesota church over the weekend,” CNN…
Trump Budget Office Orders Review of Blue State Funding
“The Trump administration has ordered Cabinet agencies to review federal funding for a group of Democratic-controlled states, as the administration looks to cut off resources for ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions that refuse…
Watching a Superpower Die By Suicide
Garrett Graff: “Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are…
Trump’s Framework for Greenland Wasn’t Written Down
“President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte reached a verbal understanding about Greenland during their meeting on Wednesday, but no document has been produced yet memorializing a future…
Trump Predicts Another Government Shutdown
President Trump predicted Thursday that the U.S. is likely headed toward another shutdown before the funding deadline at the end of January, The Hill reports. Said Trump: “I think we…
Vance Says He’ll Try to Calm Tensions in Minneapolis
Vice President JD Vance, previewing a trip to Minneapolis today to meet with ICE officers and members of a community awash in tension, said that he will aim to “turn…
Why Trump Always Chooses Conflict
I wrote last week that the real power center of today’s Republican Party isn’t the party leadership — it’s conservative media. That reality helps explain why moments like yesterday feel…
Democrats Abandon the Clintons Over Jeffrey Epstein
“Democrats attempted to turn the page on the Clinton era Wednesday, delivering a stunning rebuke of the power couple that dominated their party for more than two decades,” the Wall…
Jasmine Crockett Dares Democrats to Rethink Electability
Washington Post: “The controversy is part of a larger Democratic disagreement about what makes a candidate ‘electable,’ a term many party leaders have used in recent years to describe scripted,…
Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem
Marc Novicoff and Jonathan Chait: “A key source of Newsom’s appeal is the belief that he’s electable. It’s easy to see why the party’s voters have such a favorable view…
TikTok Deal Finalized
The U.S. and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. business to a consortium of mostly U.S. investors led by Oracle and Silver Lake, capping off…
Republicans Play Defense in the States
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “In our first handicapping of state legislature control for the 2026 cycle, we find 15 chambers that are competitive—either Leans Republican, Toss-up, or Leans Democratic. That’s…
Jamie Dimon Slams Trump’s Credit Card Cap
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon criticized President Trump’s proposal to impose a 10% cap on credit card rates, saying it would cause an “economic disaster,” Bloomberg reports. Save to Favorites
An Interactive Map of Trump’s Approval
G. Elliot Morris: “Over the past few months, I have been working behind the scenes on a big interactive map of Trump’s approval at the local level. National polls are…
Why Netanyahu Was a No Show at Davos
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to join President Trump’s “peace board” but could not attend the signing ceremony as he’s wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war…
Watching Trump with Fear and Shame
Paul Krugman: “I listened to Trump’s Davos speech with fear: How much damage will this demented, vindictive individual do to America and the world? I also felt a deep sense…
Johnson Backs Impeaching Two Judges
Speaker Mike Johnson endorsed impeaching a pair of federal judges, including one who has repeatedly ruled against President Trump, The Hill reports. Save to Favorites
Trump Changes the World Order
Nahal Toosi: “Not long ago, many foreign policy professionals were still asking if the post-World War II ‘rules-based international order’ was dead. In the wake of Trump’s Greenland gambit, I’m…
Allies Snub Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
Under the “Board of Peace” charter signed this morning, “one man has the power to veto decisions, approve the agenda, invite members, dissolve the board entirely and designate his own…
