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1 week ago | 
thenationalpulse.com | Raheem Kassam
WE ARE 100% INDEPENDENT AND READER-FUNDED. FOR A GUARANTEED AD-FREE EXPERIENCE AND TO SUPPORT REAL NEWS, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE, TODAY. PULSE POINTS:❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Atlantic published an article implying that veteran and Trump nominee Joe Kent may harbor Nazi sympathies because of a tattoo reading “Panzer”—German for “tank”—on his arm.
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2 weeks ago | 
raheemkassam.substack.com | Raheem Kassam
The National Pulse's Political Editor, Will Upton, quizzed Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on the status of the peace deal with Ukraine and recent Greenland government comments about their relationship with China today. To be honest, I'm surprised the White House was not aware of the Greenland foreign minister’s comments. They were a big deal in the country and a big deal to China.
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2 weeks ago | 
raheemkassam.substack.com | Raheem Kassam
The Lafayette Musical, an “Immersive Bicentennial Tour,“ concludes Sunday in Easton, Pennsylvania, at the aptly chosen Lafayette College. Having also played in Charleston, New Orleans, West Point, and Washington, D.C.’s recently politically tumultuous Kennedy Center, the show serves as a reminder of the leap from trite political adages to lasting cultural adagios. Governance is scarcely about the here and now.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenationalpulse.com | Raheem Kassam
WE ARE 100% INDEPENDENT AND READER-FUNDED. FOR A GUARANTEED AD-FREE EXPERIENCE AND TO SUPPORT REAL NEWS, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE, TODAY. PULSE POINTS:❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Trump White House relaunched COVID.gov to outline how Fauci and U.S. agencies allegedly buried the COVID lab leak theory to protect China. 👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Dr. Fauci, EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak, NIH staff, and Biden’s HHS are accused of funding, obstructing, and covering up dangerous research.
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4 weeks ago | 
thenationalpulse.com | Raheem Kassam
As I write, I sit swimming in turbulence somewhere over Virginia, on the same jet as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – heading to Panama City in an effort to restore the country’s critical canal to US control. But Saturday was a very different scene. A far more comfortable experience, too. In Box 3 at the Kennedy Center for the Arts, for the National Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Mozart and Mendelssohn. I hadn’t been to the Kennedy Center in a while (i.e., we are so back).
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Ben Clerkin |Raheem Kassam |Paul du Quenoy
It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans over the coming year and a half: tie them to Elon Musk like a billionaire-sized string of dynamite. They’re doing it already, and intend to ramp it up to 11. Yet Republicans don’t seem to have an answer for how to deal with it – and saying “Musk isn’t on the ballot, I am” isn’t an answer. There was a significant portion of time where Republicans struggled to figure out how to defend Donald Trump, but they’ve solved that problem.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Ben Clerkin |Raheem Kassam |Paul du Quenoy |Matthew Lynn
He’s survived an assassination, bounced back from bankruptcy and – so far, at least – avoided all attempts to jail him. But Donald Trump’s most audacious feat is yet before him: to persuade Americans to pay more for their goods as their beloved businesses struggle – and then be grateful to him at the polls. While tariffs threaten to raise prices across the board for consumers, small businesses with lower margins than their larger competitors are struggling.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Raheem Kassam
As I write, I sit swimming in turbulence somewhere over Virginia, on the same jet as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – heading to Panama City in an effort to restore the country’s critical canal to US control. But Saturday was a very different scene. A far more comfortable experience, too. In Box 3 at the Kennedy Center for the Arts, for the National Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Mozart and Mendelssohn. I hadn’t been to the Kennedy Center in a while (i.e., we are so back).
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4 weeks ago | 
thenationalpulse.com | Raheem Kassam
There was a time when political parties engaged in introspection after electoral defeats. Psephological autopsies–despite some of their stupidity–are scarcely novel. But 2025’s Democratic Party appears insistent on bucking the trend of self-reflection, pressing on with its recently rejected extremist platform, promoting its most heinous abusers of the electorate as its most vocal spokespeople, and shoving in America’s face its losing mantra: We’re Not Going Back.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalpulse.com | Raheem Kassam
WE ARE 100% INDEPENDENT AND READER-FUNDED. FOR A GUARANTEED AD-FREE EXPERIENCE AND TO SUPPORT REAL NEWS, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE, TODAY. PANAMA CITY, Panama—U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrapped up his tour of Panama on Wednesday, inking two critical Memoranda of Understanding with officials of the central American nation determined to get more support, investment, and protection from the United States in exchange for renewed Sino-skepticism.
