Saturday, May 25, 2024

Biden continues drilling boom on public lands despite campaign pledge, analysis shows

“The reality is that in the battle between the oil industry and Biden, the industry is winning.”

Manchin under fire for blowing potential $60 billion hole in US economy during pandemic

The death of Democrats' $1.75 trillion reconciliation measure could deprive the U.S. economy of $60 billion in gross domestic product (GDP) over the next three quarters, hampering the nation's fragile recovery.
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Missouri’s last abortion clinic faces imminent closure. Meet one of the OB-GYNs fighting back

“This is harassment and attempted intimidation of doctors at the highest levels of government.”
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What foreign policy will new French president pursue in the Middle East?

Macron favors continued French intervention in West Africa and Mali in order to “eradicate the threat at its origin.”

Hillary Clinton’s Flat and Misleading Foreign Policy Speech

If Hillary wins the presidency, she will be much like Brezhnev and Andropov, senior apparatchiks of an empire in denial of its own precipitous decline.

The misadventures of ‘tariff man’

For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction.

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting with minor

Agreeing to forfeit all obscene material from his electronic devices, Weiner is currently scheduled for sentencing on September 8.

America’s biggest economic problem isn’t China

Xi Jinping might possibly agree this weekend when he meets Donald Trump on further steps to bring down China’s trade imbalance with...

Should the American public vote to impeach Trump now?

Never underestimate the power of a public aroused to action.

Trump’s Wrecking Ball Defines His Singular ‘Greatness:’ Demolition

For a guy who brags interminably about his self-evident genius — getting rich by building colossal, ritzy stuff— Trump’s historic significance is getting fully established: he is a uniter of odd bedfellows (against his excesses) and already the demolisher-in-chief, whether of his party or campaign.