On Tuesday, New Hampshire Republican primary voters put Donald Trump on a glide path to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, leading high-ranking Republicans to declare the race effectively over. Three days later, those GOP officials got a taste of what they will be forced to account for over the next nine months. And it reinforced […]Read More
Unless you are under age 20 or so, you are likely to have seen myriad rebuttals of arguments like the one made by Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) last week. Phillips, who is making a functionally hopeless bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, offered a map of the 2020 presidential results by county. The Democrats condemning […]Read More
A consequential development of the Trump era is what increasingly looks like the Republicans’ acrimonious divorce from the rule of law. The party that once prided itself as the law-and-order side has leaped headlong into highly speculative theories about the “weaponization” of the justice system, spurred by former president Donald Trump. Both Trump and his […]Read More
The Wisconsin Supreme Court asked a state elections board Monday to respond this week to Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips’s claim that he has been unlawfully left off the state’s April 2 primary ballot. The Wisconsin Elections Commission and the Wisconsin Presidential Preference Selection Committee, acting on the recommendation of the state Democratic Party leaders, […]Read More
Former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley would like to be president. Step 1 of that plan is to become the Republican Party’s nominee — a step that, as you know, isn’t going terribly well. Yes, she’s one of two remaining candidates, but that’s a bit like saying that Pete Best is one of […]Read More
Ex-Starbucks employee sues chain for wrongful termination after stopping attempted
A former Starbucks employee is suing the coffee chain, saying he was wrongly terminated after he confronted robbers at his store. NBC affiliate KSDK of St. Louis reported that Michael Harris, 20, was working a drive-thru shift last month when, he said, two men entered the store and began frisking customers. When the two men […]Read More
A former IRS contractor who leaked a slew of confidential tax records filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of President Donald Trump, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday by a federal judge in Washington. Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty last year to one count of unauthorized disclosure of income tax returns, a rarely prosecuted crime […]Read More
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff stood in front of a giant menorah outside the White House during Hanukkah last month and assured a crowd of Jewish Americans that he understood their pain. He knew that many felt unmoored amid a wave of antisemitic incidents following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack in Israel. He mentioned a Jewish restaurant […]Read More
Home mortgage rates have soared during the economic recovery from the pandemic, but the swelling ranks ofhomeowners facing steep interest payments this year may find some relief based on how they file their tax returns. Thanks to the mortgage interest deduction, filers who choose to itemize their tax returns rather than take the standard deduction […]Read More
The economy grew at a much more rapid pace than expected in the final three months of 2023, as the U.S. easily skirted a recession that many forecasters had thought was inevitable, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced, increased at a 3.3% annualized rate […]Read More