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[ad_1] Last week, The Washington Free Beacon revealed that the leading candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 12th district, Adam Hamawy, was a longtime friend and supporter of the so-called [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] From yesterday’s decision by Judge Anthony Trenga (E.D. Va.) in Fseisi v. O’Keefe Media Group: The Complaint alleges the following: Defendant James O’Keefe is a conservative political activist whose organization, Defendant O’Keefe Media Group (“OMG”), frequently engages in “sting” operations in which its agents use false identities to arrange meetings with individuals affiliated with government, mainstream media, or progressive organizations, and surreptitiously record them with the goal of publishing the subject’s potentially unflattering or controversial statements so as to tarnish the reputations of the subject or their affiliated institution or, in OMG’s words, to “expos[e] corruption.” Plaintiff, a top…

[ad_1] Image by Javad Esmaeili. Guns or butter. Butter or guns. Can we have both? If not, which should come first? Consider it one of those chicken-and-egg conundrums of modern society. “Guns” is the stand-in for a well-funded military and “butter” for all the human goods, comforts, and needs of a society. Economists, politicians, and generals have long considered the balance of guns and butter. Wage too many wars, produce too many arms, and there won’t be enough money to keep a nation decently fed and comfortable. Produce too many consumer goods, meet everyone’s needs, and a nation might find…

[ad_1] Higher inflation reports pushed U.S. Treasury yields on Friday to rates not seen since the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Yields on the 30-year Treasury rose to 5.13 percent, the highest since June 2007. The 10-year yield jumped to 4.59 percent, the highest since May 2025. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The rise in rates comes in the wake of increasing consumer, producer, and import–export prices. The Consumer Price Index jumped to 3.8 percent according to data released this week, the highest since May 2023. Fears over higher inflation pushed investors to demand…

[ad_1] Our politics have been analogized to Veep. A more apt comparison some days is that we are living in a cartoon. Every good cartoon needs a supervillain or three. Our supervillains created millions of jobs, made goods cheaper and far easier to obtain, and revolutionized access to information, among other terrible, terrible things.  I am referring to billionaires. Reasonable people will debate, and disagree on, the best way to sketch out the tax code. Protestations to “tax the rich” have long been central to progressive politics. But last week’s Met Gala was a reminder that there is something else…

[ad_1] For years, conventional wisdom held that the suburban shopping mall was dying. Seph Laws’s book Abandoned Malls, published in 2020, included photographs of more than 200 of them across the nation in various states of near-gothic decay. Anchor retail stores like J.C. Penney and Sears disappeared, smaller retail outlets moved their businesses online, and if a shopping mall figured at all in popular culture, it was as nostalgic background scenery, like the Starcourt Mall in the Netflix show, Stranger Things, set in 1983.  Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Rather than trying to engineer a grand bargain, this is a moment to prevent deterioration [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Image by Jasmina Ajkic. In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment against the Cuban people. Escalating sanctions have further tightened the noose of a punitive U.S. blockade that has strangled the island for more than half a century. The resulting “energy starvation” has deepened a manufactured crisis, threatening Cubans’ access to food, water, healthcare, fuel, electricity, and other basic human rights and needs, while intensifying the broader assault on the island’s sovereignty and development. Since 2017, when the first Trump administration began dismantling the limited normalization measures introduced under Obama, Cuba has…

[ad_1] Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin told the RCP podcast on Thursday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping invoking the “Thucydides Trap” during meetings with President Trump is “not good history” and a sign of weakness. Auslin argued that China uses the vague fear of war to deter America from taking action on any issue, and Xi repeating it signals that China’s ideology is “stale.” “It’s actually funny — it’s very retro,” he said. “Xi has nothing new to say.”President Xi told the ceremony welcoming Trump to China: “The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the United…

[ad_1] If you talk to folks in the anti-abortion movement, they’re pretty disappointed about the state of things in the US. [ad_2] Source link