Russia continues to burn through its resources but is no longer seeing gains for it.
Mark Sumner
Trump isnāt really looking for a deal; Heās looking for an excuse. Having firmly grasped this hot potato, heās discovered that putting it down is impossible. So heās pretending to be negotiating with people who arenāt interested in anything but his surrender.
A recently published scientific paper shows that an often-cited claim of the 'lab leak' theory is simply not true
A month into the war, the Iranian regime is still in place, the world economy is plummeting toward recession, the stock market is crashing, and every U.S. military base in the Middle East is "uninhabitable." Is this winning?
Iran is treating the Strait of Hormuz as a "toll gate," allowing a handful of tankers to pass through after searches and steep payments to the Iranian military. Nothing suggests even a remote connection to any deal made with Trump.
The $200B request alone would be the world's third-largest military budget, behind only the U.S. and China.
Corruption, corruption, and corruption.
Mullin's statements on the murders of Goode and Pretti are unforgivable and disgusting. Replacing Noem with Mullin is like replacing arsenic with cyanide.
In this war, Trump and Hegseth have a very simple philosophy. We don't know why we're there. We don't know what we want. We don't know when it ends. And f**k you for asking.
NASA announces a series of changes that require going faster ... and slower.
Join us here under this comfy rock where we can pretend things are fine. Just fine.
Terrific as this news may be, it's not clear that SCOTUS has acted in time to stop an economic disaster already in progress.
The National Emergencies Act, written in the middle of the Cold War, gives whoever is behind the Resolute Desk a candy store of unchecked powers.
It's been eight months since an intelligence official came forward with serious allegations against Tulsi Gabbard. That seems like a very long time to sit on something that represents a "grave threat" to the nation.
It's well past time for the Patriot Act and Homeland Security Acts, these gutless acts of panicked pseudo-patriotism, to be revoked, and for all the assaults on freedom that they created to be rolled back.
Video analysis shows that Ross wasn't hit by Renee Good's vehicle. EMTs report that Good was still alive when they reached the scene.
Courts provide extraordinary protection to the police. Courts provide extraordinary protection to agents of the federal government. Is it still possible to prosecute ICE agents for assault and murder?
Neither Walmart nor Costco represents the extreme of what's possible within the system, but their choices do showcase some sharp contrasts within the broad spectrum of American capitalism.
Ford is building its next-generation electric pickup with a gas engine ... and that's a good thing.
Trump's team doesn't need an autopen. They know Trump will reliably plant his pubic signature on anything they put in front of him without bothering to read it. Which is good, because it's increasingly difficult to keep Trump awake, even when people are busy kissing his ass.