On Monday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would impose a 50 percent tariff against Canada in a move that Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman notes is not only “almost surely illegal,” but is the same “terrible mistake” that pushed the U.S. into the Great Depression. “Yesterday…
President Donald Trump once again took aim at Canada after reigniting his feud with America’s neighbor to the north, claiming “they need us to survive” during an Oval Office event on Wednesday.Trump this week escalated his long-simmering feud with Canada after wildfires in the country blanketed much…
When he was campaigning in 2024, President Donald Trump proclaimed that in his presidency, in vitro fertilization (IVF) would be free for anyone who wants it. Now, Republicans intend to cut funding for it altogether in the programs that do currently fund it. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) told CNN on…
As the conflict with Iran reignites and spirals into a “forever war,” a former official of President Donald Trump has revealed the real reason the commander-in-chief has allowed the U.S. to slip into endless fighting. That reason: Trump simply can’t help himself in the face of Iran’s “taunting.” In …
Veteran Democratic strategist Christina Reynolds sees President Donald Trump reaching “historic lows” that even previous presidents didn’t experience in the largest scandals of their presidencies. Speaking to The New Republic’s Greg Sargent on Tuesday, Reynolds explained that looking at the previous…
During the Hill Nation Summit in Washington D.C. on July 15, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) said he presently has “no plans” to leave the Democratic Party but added that he will leave if it becomes “the anti-Israel party.” And according to NOTUS and the conservative Washington Examiner, Fetter…
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ongoing health situation continues to get murkier and murkier, with a Daily Beast report alleging new evidence of a “cover-up.”McConnell, the Kentucky Republican best known for his many years as Senate Majority Leader, was hospitalized in mid-June, with initial reports suggest…
President Donald Trump is targeting American history itself in a new push that looks less like patriotism and more like political control. Trump is specifically targeting the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, or ACHP, which The New Republic’s Timothy Noah warns is at work trying to destroy …
A newly exposed detail about President Donald Trump’s fussy approach to decorating the Oval Office “might, quietly, be among the most telling” things about him, according to a new piece from The i Paper, exposing his half-hearted approach to the presidency.In the piece, published Tuesday, journalist…
When Donald Trump narrowly won the 2024 U.S. presidential election, many of the independents who voted for him cited the economy — especially inflation — as a key factor in their decision. Trump, on the campaign trail, promised to lower prices “on Day 1.” But one year and a half into his second pres…