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1 week ago | 
inkl.com | Joe Lancaster |Nick Gillespie
23:06—Is the U.S. middle class hollowed out?
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
In August 1971, during President Richard Nixon's first term in office, White House Counsel John Dean drafted a memo titled "Dealing with our Political Enemies.""This memorandum addresses the matter of how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to this Administration," Dean wrote.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs went into effect over the weekend, imposing a 10 percent tax on imports from nearly every nation on the planet. (Additional higher tariffs on a subset of countries will go into effect Wednesday.) The U.S. stock market then plunged, seeing its worst week since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst two-day drop in history, with the market losing $6.6 trillion in value.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
When President Donald Trump reentered office in January, he immediately set about removing all traces of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the federal government. He signed one executive order "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing" and another "ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity."More recently, anti-DEI efforts have moved from the government into the private sector.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
This week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government and an internet watchdog organization. NewsGuard was founded by Gordon Crovitz, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Steven Brill, an attorney who started Court TV; they serve as co-CEOs. The company employs journalists to assess and rate the reliability of news outlets on a scale of 0–100.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
Last month, the United Kingdom Home Secretary reportedly demanded access to user data of any Apple customer on the planet. Apple chose to degrade U.K. users' data protection instead of complying with the order. In a letter to the U.S. attorney general this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) expressed concern about the order and requested information on any other recent orders.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
So far, President Donald Trump's second term in office has been characterized by antagonism to allied nations. In just two months, Trump has shown hostility to the NATO defense alliance while gleefully pursuing a trade war against Canada and Mexico by imposing double-digit tariffs on the two largest purchasers of U.S. goods for specious reasons only to then agree to a pause, before repeating the cycle all over again.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
One of President Donald Trump's Day 1 executive orders designated "certain international cartels" as "foreign terrorist organizations," a classification that according to the State Department "play[s] a critical role in our fight against terrorism and [is] an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business." To that end, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a new...
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
On President Joe Biden's way out the door, officials in his administration were busy—not just packing up their offices, but shoveling as much money as possible before incoming President Donald Trump could get his hands on it.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Joe Lancaster
In recent weeks, numerous disaffected activists have protested Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and the actions he has undertaken as the nominal head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Amid nationwide protests that organizers have dubbed the "Tesla Takedown," some demonstrations have turned destructive: Activists have set fire to Tesla charging stations in Boston, fired gunshots into a dealership in Oregon, and vandalized vehicles and dealerships in numerous locales.
