12+ hour, 35+ min ago   (384+ words) In October 2020, from inside the White House, I stopped attending the Coronavirus Task Force meetings. I wrote to the vice president’s office in frustration that I had no time to spend teaching people who were “refractory to facts.” I did…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (611+ words) We just had the first “mid-term convention.” Do you remember anything from it? Maybe President Trump’s promise to send every adult a $5,000 check if Republicans win, but that's about it. And we all know that is never going to happen,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (614+ words) CMS is finishing work on a rule that would limit what states can route to providers through Medicaid managed care. The agency proposed it in May, closed comments in July, and Administrator Mehmet Oz has framed the whole effort around…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (651+ words) When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he had four years to assess what went right and wrong in his first term before it was sabotaged by COVID-19. To counter the true “China virus” (hegemony over critical…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (615+ words) American steelworkers are finally seeing real investment pour into their mills, and some union leaders still act like it’s a problem. The U.S. Steel contract expires September 1. Negotiations are underway and a very serious offer of 18 percent in wage increases…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (891+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood in front of business students at SMU's Cox School of Business in Dallas on Tuesday and said something refreshingly blunt: “We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem.” His prescription is 3 percent…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (723+ words) Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke? Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (758+ words) The labor market was in far better shape in August than experts had forecasted. Not only did the headline on the monthly jobs report show 162,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate remained low, but a deep dive into the…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (821+ words) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is weaponizing the apparatus of city government to crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the U.S. Constitution and fundamental fairness. If you're not a landlord, you may think this doesn't affect you…...