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On July 3, the “Wings of Freedom” demonstrations over the National Mall featured three hours’ worth of aerial entertainment cooked up by the Trump administration […]

Donald Trump’s administration is increasingly defined by its foreign policy adventures. To his critics these are the deadly flailings of a mad king; to his […]

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The White House dropped CNN from President Donald Trump’s Thursday press pool, days after a federal judge blocked his ban on the outlet. The network […]

Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings grew colder behind the scenes for weeks before cursing at a fellow panelist on live television. Adam Mockler, the political […]

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The guy who caused the high gas prices is now trying to blackmail a red state. Alaskans are their own people, who do their own […]

After 23 years of war and occupation, the last US soldiers officially left Iraq on Wednesday, Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced in a statement […]

It was a bit tense watching Jack Smith get grilled before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. During his testimony, the former special counsel defended […]

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg reports on an interview with Justice Alito explaining the justice’s last-minute decision to recuse in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, the major […]

Canada’s Supreme Court legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2016, and there has been no end to debate and controversy over the end-of-life process: […]

Democrats are ready for Trump to try anything and everything to avoid becoming a lame duck president if Democrats win all or part of Congress […]

Sometimes in politics, there isn’t a direct line of causation. Unintended consequences of policy decisions are common. Presidents and Congress can think they have thought […]

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Despite the Trump administration’s hostility towards renewable energy, information released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that utility solar capacity — large-scale projects that […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was ridiculed online Wednesday after promoting a bizarre 36-second video showing service members exercising outside the Pentagon under the banner “This […]

Jack Smith testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee today and apparently the senators made fools of themselves. I had to be away while it was […]

I spent several hours yesterday poring over the two new opinion polls about the top contests in Vermont. So of course I missed something very […]

Last Wednesday, the head of an AI tech company casually announced, in a long-winded post on X, a discovery that, if true, would represent a […]