The Federal Reserve raised its funds rate on Wednesday by a quarter percent. The 4.5–4.75 percent rate amounts to the highest in 15 years. Despite this, and Wednesday’s hike becoming the eighth consecutive one, Chairman Jerome Powell explained that “we…
Rep. George Santos resigned his seat on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee and on the Small Business Committee on Tuesday. When does President Joe Biden follow suit? The president this week repeated the lie, reportedly for the eighth time,…
An elected official in Michigan with a “D” suffixing her name received no jail time as part of a plea agreement in which her lawyer admitted that she tampered with a ballot box after an especially close election in an…
The United States agreed to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine this week. The aid comes in coordination with the United Kingdom’s announcement that it will send 12 Challenger 2 tanks and Germany’s donation of 14 Leopard 2 tanks….
Paul Bedard relays a hilarious story Mike Pompeo apparently tells in his book. As secretary of state, Pompeo made a request to the department’s inspector general. “I told them that my wife flies to foreign countries to give speeches for…
Postjudice, a perfectly cromulent word, characterizes a reaction, extraordinary mostly in its ordinariness, to the elderly Asian man murdering 11 mostly older Asians at a Monterey Park, California, dance hall. “Was the shooting an act of anti-Asian bigotry?” University of…
One of America’s finest minds on the subjects of constitutional law weighed in Monday on the legality of Joe Biden storing classified documents in unsecure locations. “Presidents and vice-presidents can declassify these,” Whoopi Goldberg informed on The View, adding, as…
“I come as the possessor of the book of Destiny to banish political and moral darkness and to erect the theory of universal harmony upon the ruins of the uncertain science,” Charles Fourier proclaimed two centuries ago to a deaf…
Did we judge 2020’s statue vandals too harshly? Boston’s Martin Luther King Jr.–Coretta Scott King “Embrace” sculpture with any luck coaxes a comeback. Alternatively, locals might imitate their Puritan forefathers, who essentially evicted the only European settler, William Blaxton, from…
Who did Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint as special counsel investigating Garagegate? Him, by which I mean Hur — Robert Hur to be precise. On the one hand, he succeeded Rod Rosenstein as U.S. attorney for Maryland and worked for…