Monday, October 26, 2026

Trump approval slump puts 2026 midterms and GOP strategy in jeopardy

New national polling shows President Donald Trump at 39 percent approval and 58 percent disapproval, his worst showing of the second term and rivaling the lowest point of his presidency overall, as voters sour on his economic, immigration, and high-profile executive actions while protest movements gain strength.

Trump’s Pacific pivot

Trump's plan: negotiate with China today, fight a war with it tomorrow.

Biden administration discarded internal finding on Shireen Abu Akleh killing, former investigator says

A former U.S. Security Coordinator official says evidence showed Israeli soldiers intentionally shot the Palestinian American journalist, but senior officials removed that conclusion and the State Department called it “the result of tragic circumstances.”

Trump’s power and control is slipping through his fingers—and he knows it

All of this should serve as evidence that Trump’s grip on power is quickly slipping through his fingers, and he knows it.

Trump is bad at running the country

It seems that what I learned all those years ago in El Salvador is increasingly becoming the essence of Donald Trump’s America.

The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry and corruption 

The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”

Was the GOP sponsored shutdown crafted to provide cover for Trump as he neuters...

”If there’s no access to the courts–there’s no functioning government.”

Abundance 2029?

A skeptical look at the Democrats’ ‘abundance agenda,’ from housing shortcuts to AI hype and labor’s place in the plan.

Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina sparks outrage as millions of Americans face food...

Critics accuse the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits during the shutdown while approving a $40 billion bailout tied to Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei.

Trump expands boat-bombing campaign to Pacific as death toll climbs and legal outrage grows

Critics denounce the latest strikes as “unlawful extrajudicial killings” as the Trump administration extends its maritime attacks beyond the Caribbean and signals possible land strikes ahead.