Trump’s Latino Honeymoon Is Ending at the Checkout Line Seventy-three out of every hundred Latino voters in the most competitive House districts in the country say they are just surviving. Not thriving. Not getting by. Surviving. That number, according…
The Math the Government Refuses to Do Picture an eight-year-old packing a backpack she does not get to bring anywhere, sitting at a kitchen table while a pastor she barely knows decides where she will sleep tonight. That is…
The Map That Decides Our School Boards Is Up for Grabs Now When most of us think about who runs our lives, we picture Washington. But the people who decide whether our kid’s school gets new textbooks, whether our…
Xi Knows How Many Patriots We Have Left. Do You? Here’s the scene. President Trump shakes Xi Jinping’s hand on the marble steps of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing this week. The CEOs of Boeing, Nvidia,…
Patience Costs Money We Don’t Have A week ago, financial traders pegged the odds of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this year at 16%. Today those odds have more than doubled to 34%, according to the CME FedWatch….
Trump Promised a Boom. Our Receipts Tell a Different Story. Pull up to a gas station this week and watch the numbers tick past $4.50 a gallon. For some filling up their diesel trucks, holding the pump steady when…
Two-thirds of America’s Nonprofits Are Sounding the Alarm. We Should Listen. There’s a stretch of America you probably won’t see until it’s gone. It’s the diaper bank that keeps a young mother from missing her shift. The community radio…
The White House Made Mothers a Website. The South Is Burying Them. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants us to know the administration cares about mothers. He has a website to prove it. On Mother’s Day, the Department of Health…
When Ancient Egypt Becomes Subversive A book about the digestive system got pulled off a school library shelf this past year. So did one on ancient Egypt. Somewhere in America, a parent or a politician decided that the inner…
When Only 28 Percent of Us Support a Bill, Why Is It Still Moving? Washington has talked itself into believing that the SAVE America Act is the most urgent fight in the country. Voters, it turns out, are barely…
Fewer Swastikas, More Funerals: The 2025 Antisemitism Report We Should Actually Read The Anti-Defamation League says antisemitic incidents in 2025 fell by a third compared with 2024, dropping from 9,354 down to 6,274. Take a breath. Now read the…
The “Elephant in the Room” Just Hit 59 Percent The polite phase is over. Almost six in ten of us now say the president doesn’t have the mental sharpness to do his job. Read that again. We are not…
The Race Nobody Watches Could Decide the One Everybody Does Pop quiz. Who certifies your state’s election results? If you blanked, you’re not alone. Most of us couldn’t name our secretary of state or our state attorney general on…
Selling the Oval Office One Cologne Bottle at a Time Picture two scenes from this week. In one, a sitting president promotes a $249 bottle of cologne called Victory 45 47 to millions of followers on a social media…
The Court Just Handed Politicians a New Tool to Pick Their Own Voters The fastest way to win an election isn’t to convince more people. It’s to choose which people get to count. And on Wednesday, six justices on…
We Started a War in February. The Bill Arrived in April. Pull up to a gas station this week and the math stops making sense. Four dollars and eighteen cents per gallon, the highest pump price in four years,…
Worse Than 2008, Worse Than COVID, and We’re the Ones Holding the Bill A quarter century covers a lot of ground. Two recessions. A pandemic that snapped supply chains in half. A financial crisis that gutted retirement accounts and…
The 48 Votes Standing Between Us and a Different Kind of Presidency Pennsylvania matters. Michigan matters. Wisconsin matters. If you live anywhere else, your presidential vote is mostly decoration. That sounds harsh until you look at the numbers. In…
Half Our Missiles Are Gone. The Bill Is Just Starting. $1.9 billion in cruise missiles launched in just sixteen days. That’s what we spent firing 535 Tomahawks into Iran during the opening weeks of Operation Epic Fury. And that…
One in Five Trump Voters Wants Him Gone. That’s Not a Blip. Something shifted this month, and you can see it in the polling, the pundits, and the portfolios. A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll released this week shows…
When the Revolving Door Only Spins One Way Count the empty chairs in Trump’s Cabinet this week. There are three now, and if you line up the nameplates, a curious pattern emerges. Kristi Noem out in March. Pam Bondi…
Red tulips on a marble floor. That is what it took to stop traffic in the halls of Congress yesterday. Sixty two veterans and military families walked into the Cannon House Office Building rotunda, stood in a quiet circle,…
They Worked Around the President. We Should Be Worried Imagine this. The president of the United States, the man who holds the nuclear codes, is pacing the West Wing screaming at his staff for hours on end. Two of…
Inflation Wasn’t Defeated. It Was Reloading. Back in January, standing before global leaders at Davos, Trump declared victory. Inflation, he said, was finished. Grocery prices, gas, mortgages, rent, car payments, all of it supposedly tumbling fast. Three months later,…
New Poll Reveals Key Voting Bloc Digging Trump’s Midterm Grave If you want to understand where the 2026 midterms are heading, stop watching cable news for a minute and pay attention to Latino voters. A sweeping new poll from…
