President Donald Trump’s announcement that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop hitting each other’s energy sites, a deal he tied to rising diesel prices, unraveled within an hour.Trump made the claim in a Monday post on Truth Social, which also blamed the Russia-Ukraine war, not his own war with I…
Month: September 2026
A “clan of predators” at the heart of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is turning American foreign policy into a tool for private gain, according to a sweeping new report.MAGA is often described as isolationist, but Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum argued Monday that description misses its…
A “far-reaching” federal investigation into the officials who once investigated President Donald Trump now stretches to Mar-a-Lago and beyond, a new court filing says.The account comes from a sworn declaration filed Monday in Washington federal court by Kenneth Wainstein, a lawyer for former CIA Dir…
Kansans may remember the rise and spectacular fall of Gov. Sam Brownback’s disastrous tax experiment, which was designed to eliminate the state income tax. Less well known to Kansans is the key role that current gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson played in the enactment and execution of the failed…
Donald Trump Jr.’s second wife fired back on Monday at a report that their extravagant wedding in the Bahamas was underwritten by a Russian oligarch.In a post on Instagram, Bettina Trump (formerly Anderson) called the report “fake news” in true Trump fashion, while at the same time admitting that Ru…
Humanity’s last 300 years have seen its share of paradigm shifts: the power of steam mechanics, electric power, the assembly line, robotic automation, computers, the net. They all upended the status quo. Moreover, even early in each transformation, everyone understood the world would never be the sa…
A conservative icon is warning that the true threat to American democracy this election cycle isn’t Nov. 3, but Jan. 3, 2027 — the day the next Congress would be sworn in.J. Michael Luttig, a former federal appeals judge appointed by President George H.W. Bush and a longtime conservative critic of D…
In 2022, then-Lt. Gov. Jon Husted stirred controversy when he joined the board of a regional bank.He already had two official jobs with the state that paid $176,000.Why, critics asked, did he need another? And, because the executive branch he was part of regulates such banks, did he have a potential…
A quiet crypto filing is setting off loud alarm bells over whether the Trump family is gearing up to take the money and run.According to The Washington Sun, “four anonymous digital wallets” simultaneously moved more than 20 billion $WLFI tokens — one of two cryptocurrencies issued by the Trump famil…
Reactions poured in to new reporting about a foreign oligarch who bankrolled the lavish wedding of President Donald Trump’s oldest son.Donald Trump Jr.’s three-day wedding celebration in the Bahamas in May was substantially bankrolled by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch with close ties to President …