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Even when -- if -- tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz can get back to normal, we'll be feeling the economic after-effects for a long time....
Generally speaking, I’ve always considered myself a “techno-optimist,” sometimes perhaps to the point of Panglossianism. As a teen, I embraced...
No president has ever been held to account by, and punished by, Congress for exceeding his powers and exercising its, not his, prerogative of...
On February 20, the US Supreme Court ruled part of US president Donald Trump’s crazy-quilt tariff scheme illegal in its particulars. Specifically,...
“[The International Emergency Economic Powers Act] does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.” That’s the single really important...
“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections,” US president Donald Trump declared in a February 13 Truth Social rant, “whether approved...
"Alex Pretti was murdered, in public and on camera, by thugs. Period. If you're lying to others about that, shame on you. If you're lying to yourself...
I write three syndicated columns a week, and the vast majority of them could easily run with the title “Stupid and Evil US Government Action of the...
A quick headline roundup from the last couple of weeks: “US Electric Grid Heading Toward ‘Crisis’ Thanks to AI Data Centers” (Common Dreams,...
In a Truth Social post, US president Donald Trump says he’s “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more...
On December 17, surrounded by festive holiday decorations, US president Donald Trump delivered an upbeat — one might even say manic — address to...
“In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security...
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth,” the US Supreme Court held in a short, unsigned ruling on November 6, “no more offends equal...
On November 3, the Washington Post reports, “fast-fashion” retailer Shein banned sales of sex dolls on its site after a government regulatory...
Citing two Trump administration officials, NBC News reports that “the entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished ‘within days'” to...
Back in June, I attended the first “No Kings” rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While...
Back in June, I attended the first “No Kings” rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A senile reality TV star and a publicity-seeking nepo baby walk into a press conference and announce that a...
“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Brendan Carr said on September 17. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”...
On September 10, Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal looked at the state’s law against “open carry” of firearms, looked at the US...
If there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s that no one should be murdered for speaking. In the aftermath of Charlie “Prove Me...
Let’s assume that US regime officials, including US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and US secretary of state Marco Rubio, were truthful in their...
The Israeli regime has lost its multi-front war in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Yes, really. It may not look like it, but the...
I’m not going to lie: I don’t particularly like Cracker Barrel’s new branding. The popular restaurant chain recently replaced its iconic logo,...
On August 7, the Gainesville, Florida city commission voted to make three pedestrian crosswalks less visible, and the pedestrians using them less...
On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee...
It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political parties are already well into their campaigns to win US House and Senate seats in the 2026...
On July 23, the Israeli Knesset voted 71 to 13 in favor of a “non-binding” motion to “annex” the West Bank, where Palestinian Arabs have...
On July 21, the US National Archives made more than 250,000 pages of documents relating to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King,...
On July 17, the Wall Street Journal published an exposé by Khadeeja Safdar and Sadie Gurman, detailing a racy — and, in context, rather damning...
On July 14, Roman Storm’s trial — on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and...
“I now think the United States may well be evolving,” Damon Linker writes at Persuasion, “to become a competitive authoritarian system in...
“John Marshall has made his decision” regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, US president Andrew Jackson...
In 1938, five years into Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the US remained mired in the depths of a “Great Depression.” Real income...
US president Donald Trump, Axios reports, “is edging closer than ever to invoking the Insurrection Act, driven by a vision of executive power free...
“8647.” Those numbers are spelled out — in seashells — in a May 15 Instagram photo posted by former FBI director James Comey. The meaning...
Bing search results inform me that women from Texas seeking abortion-inducing drugs can likely get them through Whole Woman’s Health of...
As of market close April 21, major US stock indices have fallen by double-digit percentages since the beginning of the year, while bond yields — the...
On April 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged another 2,000 points, the S&P 500 fell another 322 points, the Nasdaq index officially entered...
“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations” Nikola Tesla wrote in 1905, “invariably result from misunderstandings in the...
“House Democrats erupted into apoplexy,” Axios reported on March 14, “after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he would...
It happens twice a year, every year. I complain about it — often to you! — twice a year, every year. It’s the semi-annual switch between...
On February 26, ABC News reports, Europol announced the arrest of 25 individuals it accuses of being “part of a criminal group engaging in the...
In mid-February, the White House barred Associated Press journalists from presidential events for refusing to change the name of a body of water from...
So much going on! Will Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency succeed in their supposed quests to shut down everything...
As January bled into February, Lora Kelly notes at The Atlantic, US president Donald Trump “announced 25 percent tariffs on the country’s North...
Last November, when DOGE remained a gleam in president-elect Donald Trump’s eye, its leader apparent promised, via a post to his favorite...
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last November (“The DOGE Plan to Reform Government”), Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy asserted that “[r]equiring...
Well, here we are: After a long presidential campaign full of warnings from each “major” party campaign about the horrible things the other...
On January 10, US president-elect Donald Trump officially became a convicted felon as New York judge Juan Merchan sentenced him on 34 counts of...
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