Donald Trump’s clear victory in yesterday’s presidential election certainly seemed to prove the old maxim that perception is reality. Exit polls of 10 battleground states showed that 68% of those surveyed said the economy was “not so good” (35%) or “poor” (33%). Of the third (32%) who identified the economy as the issue that mattered […]

A fixture at Donald Trump’s final campaign rallies features the Republican nominee asking, “Are you better off now than four years ago?” Even with the steep pandemic and war induced-inflation of 2022 and early 2023, the data clearly show the answer is “yes.” Over the last two weeks, even the conservative Wall Street Journal (“U.S. […]

With Election Day less than two weeks away, Americans are putting the economy at or near the top of their list of most important issues. And as Forbes reported on Thursday, recent polls show voters wrongly perceive Republican Donald Trump as the stronger option to lead the U.S. economy over the next four years. That […]

There is much we still don’t know in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The shooter’s motives and mental state remain a mystery. Exactly how the Secret Service and local authorities failed to secure the would-be assassin’s location and prevent his deadly fire is still undetermined. An authoritative ballistics assessment of the […]

So it’s come to this for the United States. In 1948, the U.S. launched a massive airlift of supplies into Berlin to help prevent over two million people from starving in the face of a total blockade by our enemy, the Soviet Union. In 2024, the U.S. will launch air drops into Gaza to help […]

As Texas Governor Greg Abbott doubles down on the Lone Star State’s refusal to follow federal immigration law and the ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the border with Mexico, it is worth recalling the words of the President of the United States: The power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by […]

Virtually alone among major world economies, the United States has a debt ceiling which limits how much money the government can borrow to pay the bills it has already incurred. From the time Congress created the debt limit in 1917 to simply the massive borrowing need to fund the U.S effort in World War I […]

To my Republican friends willing to trigger a global economic catastrophe by refusing to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling, let’s engage in a little thought exercise. Imagine for the moment that Donald Trump actually won reelection in November 2020. (That shouldn’t be hard, given polling that shows that 66% of Republicans already wrongly believe […]

In its September 30 story titled “‘Mandates Are Working’: Employer Ultimatums Lift Vaccination Rates, So Far,” the New York Times reported some of the best COVID news for Americans since the delta variant first exploded here in July. In a nutshell, employer mandates implemented by states like New York and California as well as by […]

Sometimes a little historical context can put current events in perspective. Two weeks after the fall of Kabul, the United States successfully extracted over 120,000 Americans and Afghans from the capital. But thirteen American servicemen and women were killed in a terrorist attack during the high-risk mission to protect the ongoing airlift. Two weeks after […]