For the past six weeks, as this US-Israeli war with Iran has played out, the economic impact of the conflict has gotten a lot of attention. And rightfully so. As anyone who’s consumed any news about this war knows well by now, the Strait of Hormuz is a major energy […]
Over the weekend, the US and Israeli governments attacked Iran. In the days since, both militaries have reportedly struck thousands of targets, and Iranian forces have retaliated by launching hundreds or even thousands of missiles and drones at Israel and at US bases in surrounding Gulf countries. When announcing the […]
On Friday, six weeks after a deadline that was reluctantly signed into law by Trump, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The drop caused a lot of discourse online over the weekend as journalists and investigators began poring through the documents. […]
Trump’s political opponents in the Democratic Party and establishment media trotted out a new line of attack on his administration over the weekend. It began after the Washington Post ran a story on Friday about the first strike against what the Pentagon claims were drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean back on September 2. According […]
DOGE is no more. Or, at least—according to Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management—the Department of Government Efficiency “doesn’t exist” anymore as a centralized entity, despite having eight months left on its official mandate. Some key DOGE figures have left government entirely, while others have relocated to […]
There are very few things that Americans agree on these days. After all, this is a massive country full of hundreds of millions of people in different stages of life, subscribing to many different political ideologies, religious beliefs, and cultural values—all fighting over temporary control of one powerful centralized state […]
It’s been nearly six years since the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread into the United States, ushering in the pandemic that would come to define the first quarter of this decade. Considering how recently it occurred and how much it affected every facet of American life, it is somewhat remarkable how absent the pandemic […]
One year ago, as the 2024 election entered its final weeks, Donald Trump’s campaign focused its entire operation around one final objective: to drive home its “closing argument”—the one basic vision that the whole campaign had been built around. At a flurry of rallies from Madison Square Garden to the site of […]
President Trump caused a stir last Friday after he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hours after it released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. In a post on his social media site Truth Social, the president blamed the Biden-appointed BLS commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, for manipulating jobs numbers to […]
Last Sunday, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced that they had concluded that Jeffrey Epstein did not have a list of clients and that the convicted sex offender and formerly well-connected financier really did die by suicide. To back that up, the DOJ released video footage from the area outside Epstein’s prison […]