Politics

So, hats off to extremist NC primary voters who endorsed this absurd, super-MAGA bigot, managing to put in play among the greatest backfires in American political history.

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

There is a good chance that the scandals ensnaring some of his more odious political supporters will overshadow this story and allow him to continue bilking his marks of their money.

The Canadian company behind the Keystone Pipeline is suing the U.S. government. It’s a perfect example of why many environmentalists are wary of Obama’s secretive trade deals.

America doesn’t need their charity. We need them to pay their fair share in taxes.

The introduced tax code for the nearly 700 billionaires would raise $1 trillion over ten years, according to a press release.

In rural districts short on resources, wind farm revenue can clearly make a huge difference.

The figure, delivered under questioning at a hearing repeatedly interrupted by protesters, marked an increase from the last official estimate and drew immediate criticism from Democrats on the committee.

New facts, figures that help explain the presidential election.

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.