As the multi-day festival organized in part by President Donald Trump designed to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary continues to fall apart, former presidential speechwriter David Frum flagged on Sunday what he believed was behind the event’s ever-increasing list of problems.Dubbed the …
Month: May 2026
A federal judge just put President Donald Trump in the “danger zone” after launching an inquiry into the lawsuit that produced the president’s nearly $1.8 billion so-called “anti-weaponization” fund last week, a former federal prosecutor warned on Sunday. Glenn Kirschner, the former deputy U.S. atto…
Chris Blattman, a renowned economist and political scientist, issued a dire warning Sunday over what he called “hard proof” of an impending economic disaster, the causes of which have only been exacerbated by the Trump administration.The “hard proof” Blattman was referencing was “The AI Layoff Trap,…
Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council director, caught heat from political analysts and observers after he made what some described as an “incredible” claim about the financial health of Americans during a Fox News interview. Hassett joined Fox News host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday,” wh…
Journalist Charles Davis expressed shock on Sunday at the lack of media coverage on Gregory Bovino, the Trump administration’s ousted Border Patrol chief, having attended what he described as a “neo-fascist summit” in Europe, and just one day after promoting himself by making a “Hitlerian greeting.”…
A Nobel Prize-winning economist issues a startling warning about what it will take for the U.S. to move on from Trumpism and the Make America Great Again movement in a new Substack video on Sunday. Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 for his work on trade theory, said in the v…
Fans of President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement melted down on Sunday after Trump’s former vice president sharply criticized one of Trump’s major initiatives. Mike Pence, who was vice president during Trump’s first term, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump’s idea to create a ne…
Friends,It’s impossible to understand American politics without also understanding the American economy (and vice versa). Politics and economics may be different disciplines but they’re two sides of the same coin.This came home to me again when I saw Thursday’s report on the U.S. gross domestic prod…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was brutally mocked on Sunday after he made a strange claim during an interview on Fox News. Paxton joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures,” where the two discussed Paxton’s primary battle against Texas state Democratic lawmaker James Talari…
Donald Trump is facing pushback from within his own base after elevating Tom Barrack, a longtime Trump friend and fundraiser who was previously charged — and acquitted — of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates, to a key Middle East envoy role. Critics on the right are…