CHICAGO — The Ukrainian Village, a neighborhood nestled only a mile north and slight jog west of the United Center, where Democrats are convening this week, is the heart of the Ukrainian diaspora in Chicago — a compact enclave of faith, hope, resilience, anxiety, fear and a notably transformed political sensibility shaped by old memories […]Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent anti-price-gouging push has met with significant skepticism from policy analysts and even some normally politically aligned commentators. They’ve suggested that her somewhat vague “federal ban on price gouging” to combat inflation is unworkable, counterproductive, a “gimmick” and pandering. Many have noted that Richard M. Nixon tried price controls in August […]Read More
“Fact: Trump announced a budget to cut Social Security and Medicare every single year he was in office.” — tweet by the Harris-Walz campaign, Aug. 14 “Remember he tried to cut Medicare every year he was president, threatening a program that tens of millions of seniors count on.” — Vice President Kamala Harris, remarks in […]Read More
DETROIT — Canada’s two largest railroads are starting to shut down their shipping networks as a labor dispute with the Teamsters union threatens to cause lockouts or strikes that would disrupt cross-border trade with the U.S. Both the Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National railroads, which haul millions of tons of freight across the […]Read More
It is not because of Donald Trump that the Republican Party is associated with the color red (for that you can largely thank George W. Bush and the state of Florida), but few Republicans have embraced the color as enthusiastically as have Trump and his followers. Trump’s branding skills might be overstated, but he has […]Read More
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, narrowed down his appearances on the Sunday political talk shows this weekend to just one: Fox News. Perhaps this was because his multiple appearances a week ago had him trying to defend his running mate Donald Trump’s past engagement with a notorious antisemite; perhaps it was […]Read More
House Republicans on Monday released a long-awaited report from their impeachment probe into President Joe Biden’s activities as vice president, accusing him of obstructing federal and congressional investigations and improperly leveraging his power to benefit his family. Despite a trio of House committees finding Biden engaged in “impeachable offenses,” Republicans did not recommend further action […]Read More
Congressional committees have sweeping power that can be deployed to uncover wrongdoing or waste or malfeasance that directly or indirectly harms the American people. But they are granted that power with the tacit expectation that it will be deployed in good faith, to earnestly target questionable actions and actors. The release of the final report […]Read More
CHICAGO — When Hillary Clinton became the first woman to clinch a major party’spresidential nomination eight years ago, Democratic convention showrunners made sure there was no subtlety in marking the significance of the history-making moment. Images of the nation’s 44 male presidents appeared on the Jumbotron in Philadelphia beneath the image of a plate of […]Read More
It’s easy to tell a more complicated story about the 2024 election than is necessary. For the first half of the year, it appeared that the country was destined for a rerun of the 2020 contest, except with that year’s winner, President Joe Biden, seeing far less and far less enthusiastic support than he had […]Read More
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