4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (612+ words) Become a member. Already a member? Log in. The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live for members. Should the president ever flip the bird at a factory worker? Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis," USA Today:…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (696+ words) Become a member. Already a member? Log in. President Trump's pick for ambassador to Iceland, former Rep. Billy Long, told Arctic Today that he apologizes for comments he made Tuesday about making Iceland the 52nd state with himself as governor. Said…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (592+ words) President Trump posted a chart on social media Thursday evening that included figures in the yet-to-be released December employment report, Bloomberg reports. The chart matched figures that were not publicly published until Friday. As President Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (678+ words) Anne Applebaum: "If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but rather a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of the president or promote the ruling party's foreign friends, then…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (680+ words) In their meeting at the White House today, President Trump will try to close the gap with Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu "who Trump believes is losing his grip on power," Politico reports. Said one Trump adviser: "Bibi is on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (690+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had the explicit backing of Trump to strike key Russian targets such as energy infrastructure and arms factories, and that if Ukraine gets sought-after long-range weaponry from the US, "we will use it," Axios…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (650+ words) In fact, it asks very little of the people. At important political moments it mobilizes its core supporters with frenzies of hatred, but its overriding goal is to render most citizens passive." Politico: Any chance of avoiding a shutdown next…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (655+ words) Zack Beauchamp: "The kind of authoritarianism I fear is emerging in the United States, which political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism," doesn"t involve the outright criminalization of the opposition or formal martial law." "Instead, it depends on perverting the law,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (750+ words) America's identity as a unified nation is eroding, with Republican- and Democratic-led states dividing into separate spheres, each with its own policies governing the economic, social and political rules of life," the Wall Street Journal reports. The bitter fight over…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (648+ words) Why do despots over the centuries keep wanting to own Greenland? The fascinating, calamitous story of the many who've tried" and uniformly failed. Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Political Books "State Department employees are bracing for mass layoffs as soon as…...