“If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.” — Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, in remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Aug. 25 Vance, in defending former president Donald Trump’s proposal for across-the-board tariffs, argued that Trump managed to bring back manufacturing jobs from […]Read More
The FBI has still not determined what motivated a gunman to try to assassinate former president Donald Trump at a July campaign rally in Pennsylvania, officials with the federal law enforcement agency said on a call with reporters Wednesday. Federal officials sifted through five years’ worth of online activity by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks and […]Read More
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to immediately clear the way for theBiden administration’s new student loan repayment plan, adding to uncertainty about the future of a program that would affect millions of borrowers. Biden introduced the program, Saving on a Valuable Education, last fall as millions of Americans resumed student loan payments following a […]Read More
Two things are true. It is true that the Democrats’ position in national and state-level presidential polling has improved since Vice President Kamala Harris became the party’s nominee. It is also true that Harris is underperforming where Hillary Clinton was at this point in 2016 and that she is even underperforming the 2020 ticket on […]Read More
The details of an altercation Monday between Donald Trump’s campaign aides and an official at Arlington National Cemetery over the campaign capturing images of an area the military regards as hallowed remain murky. Regardless of the precise details, it’s merely the latest in a long line of such Trump-fueled controversies. Trump has repeatedly injected politics […]Read More
Even as mortgage interest rates were rising, home prices reached the highest level ever on the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. On a three-month running average ended in June, prices nationally were 5.4% higher than they were in June 2023, according to data released Tuesday. Despite being a record high for the […]Read More
It is inevitable that political candidates are proxies for belief systems. They have to be; they are by design. A representative democracy is ideally one in which voters choose between politicians to identify the one they are most confident will make decisions that comport with their own. To serve as the voter’s proxy. Particularly in […]Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is launching a new ad campaign this week that will continue to tie Donald Trump to Project 2025, an aggressive right-wing agenda touted by the former president’s allies and written by several of his former administration members and appointees. As part of a major ad push leading up to the […]Read More
The NFL’s most exclusive club just let in new members. At a special league meeting in Eagan, Minnesota, on Tuesday, National Football League owners voted in favor of allowing select private equity firms to buy up to a 10% stake of a team. Each fund or consortium will be able to do deals with up […]Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will travel across South Georgia on Wednesday, the pair’s second bus tour in two weeks and the first burst of campaigning since the Democratic National Convention ended last Thursday. The tour, which will end with a Harris rally in Savannah on Thursday, is the campaign’s latest […]Read More
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