A long-time expert in swimming pools knows the culprit behind the Reflecting Pool “vandalism” that caused an ongoing algae bloom. For the past several weeks, CNN has welcomed on “Swimming Pool Steve,” a second-generation pool builder who has a YouTube channel dedicated to explaining aspects of swimm…
CNN reporter John King visited three congressional districts in the north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to ask about the upcoming election and where they stand on President Donald Trump. King began his road trip by saying that if those districts go for Democrats, then the House is lost. While the pa…
Former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander published a new book talking about his time as the governor of Tennessee, his time in the Senate and what changed so significantly about the GOP in that time. In an excerpt published by The Harvard Gazette, Alexander said that up until the past few decades, Republ…
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans in an attempt to press their support for his floundering legislative agenda. According to Punchbowl News, the meeting comes as Trump is at “his weakest point yet,” dragged down by controversy surrounding the war with Iran, his fa…
In the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Warren Davidson — the GOP lawmaker who took over the seat once held by former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) — is sponsoring a bill dubbed the Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act of 2026. Davidson is touting his bill, which would repeal the Corporate Transpa…
The Justice Department has failed as part of its ongoing effort to indict Democratic Party leaders. Worse, the judge issued a blistering ruling in which he alleged the Justice Department was abusing the grand jury process, possibly in an “unlawful” way. The case involved Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and …
CNN data guru Harry Enten has some bad news for President Donald Trump: the vast majority of Americans — including most Republicans — think he surrendered to Iran in order to end the war asap rather than because he had achieved any of his objectives. According to Enten, two-thirds of all voters held…
Four years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with its June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — a ruling that, according to conservative GOP consultant Sarah Longwell, continues to be a political liability for Republicans.Writing in the conserva…
With MAGA collapsing into a circular firing squad as its leaders seek to apportion blame for the failures and chaos wrought by President Donald Trump, Vox contributor Zack Beauchamp has a novel metaphor for their attempts to wriggle out of responsibility for their own movement’s actions: “It’s a rea…
Political analysts have joked for the last few weeks that members of the Republican Party who have lost their primaries but still have until the end of the year to govern have become part of the informal “YOLO Caucus,” meaning “you only live once.” According to an exclusive Semafor interview with ou…