In my younger years, I had a more materialist view of the world (meaning not that I cared about owning material possessions but that I attributed people’s beliefs and actions principally to their economic interests). Over time, I have come to put more weight on conviction, and less on self-interest, to explain why people do...
The great ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu taught that warriors who lured their enemy into a trap should leave a way of escape to save face and avoid a desperate battle to the death. The conservative House members seeking to trap Speaker Kevin McCarthy into a hard-line position on federal spending as a government...
The most remarkable and unique feature of American politics is one that is rarely discussed: the Republican Party’s extreme anti-statist ideology. The Republican party is the only major conservative party in the world whose governing doctrine rejects higher taxes on absolute principle, refuses to acknowledge anthropogenic...
Joe Biden became the first president to ever walk a picket line on Tuesday as he rallied striking autoworkers in Michigan....
For weeks, it’s been clear that the extremist grip on the House Republican conference is making it nearly impossible for Congress to avoid a government shutdown before the money runs out at the end of September. And now the situation is getting steadily worse. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s nemesis, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz,...
The 92-year-old media baron was fond of the Fox News host — but Donald Trump complicates everything.
With the September 30 deadline approaching, House Republicans are hopelessly divided and Kevin McCarthy is struggling to find a way forward.
It already didn’t look great for Lauren Boebert when she got kicked out of a Denver theater for being disruptive during a performance of the Beetlejuice musical — or when video emerged of the voluble Republican congresswoman being escorted out of the theater. But that was hardly the end of this saga. A second video showed...
