The trustees of the Social Security fund said Tuesday that the fund will be depleted by late 2032, a year earlier than the trustees’ projection last year of 2033. If nothing is done, benefits will automatically be cut six years from now.The common understanding is that Social Security’s shortfall is…
On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts, in a not-so-veiled swipe at Donald Trump, stressed that the U.S. Constitution’s “main innovation” was the creation of an independent judiciary. Our Constitutional system of government only works, he emphasized, if power shared between the three branches of f…
Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper is now considered the favorite by top election forecasters to win North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, a result that would make him the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate in more than a decade.Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election forecast by …
Port Charlotte, Florida, is part of Charlotte County — which voted for President Donald Trump by a solid two-to-one margin in 2024. It was named one of the top ten places to retire in 2012.Still seen as a deeply red state, Democrats are making inroads into the Sunshine State. Ahead of the August pri…
One week after President Donald Trump sent FBI agents to seize Fulton County’s 2020 ballots as part of a criminal probe, a Georgia judge has apparently had it up to here with Trump-style election deniers.“The 2020 election is over,” said Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, dismissing…
Opponents of President Donald Trump were planning to use stickers to cover images of him on passes for national parks — for example, a happy face sticker that would cover the Trump part of an image depicting him next to President George Washington on an America the Beautiful pass.But according to SF…
On Friday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its initial public offering on the Nasdaq, but according to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, it amounts to little more than a “shell game” as the world’s richest person — who also happens to be President Donald Trump’s top donor — gambles with American fin…
One of President Donald Trump’s top administration allies has been “thrown in front of the bus,” according to his longtime biographer, with a bombshell new report making them look like a “dope” acting counter to the president’s interests.The New York Times this week released a major new report, cull…
President Donald Trump exploded during a recent televised interview and stormed off after being hit with tough questions, but as the reporter asking those questions revealed, he seemed to do an about-face after blowing at her.Trump sat for an interview for NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday, during…
President Donald Trump has managed to effortlessly hijack the Republican Party’s propaganda machine to dominate the public discourse on his policies — no matter how unpopular or hurtful. But there comes a time when every machine pops a cog and careens into a wall. For decades, the Republican Party h…