Donald Trump doubled down on his pro-Russia strategy on Monday, deflecting blame away from Moscow for deadly ballistic missile attacks in Ukraine, while taking no action to ratchet up pressure on the Kremlin to implement the cease-fire the president repeatedly promised on the 2024 campaign trail. Trump has made normalizing …
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You may have noticed that the first night of the Democratic National Convention ran quite long on Monday. So long, in fact, that elements were forced to be cut — like the appearance of James Taylor. The legendary songwriter was slated to close out the evening with Carole King’s “You’ve …
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Back in June, when the Biden campaign was still in full swing, the president visited Los Angeles for what turned out to be a record-breaking fundraiser with Hollywood heavyweights like Julia Roberts. But the day before the star-studded main event, the campaign was busy courting a less famous and arguably …
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George Washington could tell a lie, Taft didn’t get stuck in the bath, and Mary Lincoln never used Todd, her maiden name, after marriage. As a presidential historian, I love eviscerating falsehoods with an arsenal of contradictory evidence. I start by naming the false witness, identifying his motivations, methodically trace …
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Watching focus groups isn’t a good way to make yourself feel better about America, especially when their participants assert inconvenient truths. I know this first hand because for the last four years, I have acted as Senior Adviser to the Research Collaborative, which has done 25 focus groups and frequent …
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SeatGeek made national news on Thursday when alongside Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the ticket reseller had announced with President Joe Biden at the White House that it would adopt an all-in pricing strategy to be more transparent with fans and stop hiding fees until the end of a purchase. Critics, …
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In a 314-117 majority vote on Wednesday night, the House approved a bill to suspend the federal debt ceiling through January of 2025. The vote took place just days before the June 5 deadline for the government to free up funds lest the United States be unable to pay off …
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Electric cars are awesome.Now, thanks to new vehicle-emissions standards proposed this week by the Biden administration that aim to accelerate the adoption of electric cars, it’s pretty obvious the internal-combustion engine is the dodo bird of energy technology, soon to exist only in the memories of aging car buffs and …
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The White House is giving government agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from all federal devices and systems, Reuters reports. The Office of Management and Budget calls the guidance, announced Monday, a “critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data.” In December, Congress …
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President Biden‘s lawyers found classified documents in his former office at a Washington think tank last fall, a White House lawyer said on Monday, according to CBS News. The documents were found on Nov. 2 by Biden’s lawyers while they were packing files at an office at the Penn Biden …
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