During Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, his supporters repeatedly praised him as “pro-business” and argued that he understood the challenges small businesses face. But almost 18 months into Trump’s second presidency, according to New York Times reporter Sydney Ember, small business owners are feeling i…
When Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” took its chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy last year, it created bottlenecks that may have hampered the fight against the screwworm infestation currently menacing the southwest while making it much more expensive.The annual US Department of Ag…
An expensive slugfest between two Republican candidates for governor fighting for the party’s nomination came to an end Tuesday night.The Associated Press called the race for wealthy businessman Rick Jackson at around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. As of late Tuesday night, Jackson had about 53% of the vote, ac…
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), a far right candidate running for the Republican’s Georgia Senate nomination, just defeated a more moderate alternative — and making it easier for Democrats to retain that seat.Collins defeated football coach Derek Dooley in a primary in which President Donald Trump endorse…
One poll question has predicted all but one election since 1948, and it now forecasts President Donald Trump and his Republican Party will virtually be boiling in oil by the end of the year.“Every month in our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, we ask our sample of U.S. adults two important questio…
President Donald Trump’s economic policies are not just as bad as the Gilded Age, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist. They surpass them.The Gilded Age was a period in American history from the late-19th century to the early-20th century marked by severe income inequality and political corr…
President Donald Trump is hoping that his recent memorandum of understanding with Iran will end his voluntary war and allow prices to go down — but one political analyst says he should not get his hopes up.After noting that Trump’s seeming end to the war in Iran could help gas prices gradually go do…
President Donald Trump has been racking up a painful slew of losses, according to a former Republican who has founded an anti-Trump group.“Now, back to the loser-in-chief,” Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project wrote on Tuesday, referencing the Iran war. WIlson quickly noted that that Egypt, Qatar and …
The United States is not a grotesque, racist country because of Donald Trump. It is a grotesque, racist country because of the absolutely deplorable people who support him.There is no him without them.Read that again. Without his disgusting supporters, the America-attacking Trump would have been not…
Although poll after poll continues to show President Donald Trump’s approval tanking with a wide range of voters — from Latinos to independents — he still enjoys plenty of support among white working-class voters, especially in red states and rural areas. According to Salon’s Heather Digby Parton, h…