Friday, December 12, 2025

Bishop Barber warns that tens of thousands will die under GOP healthcare cuts

Faith leaders and advocates hold nationwide eulogies for Americans projected to lose their lives due to sweeping reductions in Medicaid, SNAP, and public health funding.

The Trump-Mamdani show was amazing. But downsides for Progressives could turn out to be...

Trump and Mamdani found each other newly useful last Friday. Only later will we know who was more effectively using whom.

Soldiers must disobey unlawful orders under Trump, lawmakers warn amid escalating threats

Lawmakers warn troops that refusing unlawful commands is their duty as Trump escalates threats and expands unauthorized military actions.

Ozymandias on the Potomac

When Donald Trump’s term in office is done, this country moves quickly to recover its capacity for economic rationality, it should be able to regain some version of its place in the world economy.

Venezuela isn’t the global threat, Trump and Rubio are

Will the U.S. government push forward with regime change in Venezuela?

Public opposition surges as Trump weighs military action in Venezuela

New polling shows widespread rejection of war while legal experts, lawmakers, and regional leaders warn the administration’s escalating campaign lacks explanation and violates core constraints

2025 elections could be the beginning of the end of MAGA—if Dems seize the...

The MAGA movement should be very worried about its political survival. If Democrats stick to the blueprint the 2025...

Priceless teaching moments from the last five presidencies, especially today’s craziest, most corrosive

Character matters because that’s the best future predictor; career success matters because past is prologue; competence matters because gross negligence is catastrophic.

Graham blocks repeal of law giving senators $500,000 payouts over seized phone records

House votes 426–0 to undo provision that could grant multi-million-dollar awards to Republicans under 2020 election investigation.

Judge rules Trump’s National Guard deployment in Washington, DC, illegal

Federal court finds the president “acted contrary to law” after sending thousands of troops to patrol the capital amid falling crime rates.