The challenge for the economics profession is to find a way to reduce payment imbalances without resorting to unbridled protectionism that would invite retaliation.
Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) is trailing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) by just 3 percentage points in a recent poll, with Cruz leading 47% to Allred's 44%.
Tommy Vietor, a former Obama administration spokesperson, said he and his “Pod Save America” co-hosts are speaking out against President Biden’s candidacy because the “stakes are so high.” “It’s a challenging moment. We are about political engagement, encouraging people to get involved in politics and knocking on doors and campaigning,” Vietor said in an interview...
Sixty-two percent of Americans support protecting access to in vitro fertilization (IVF), a new survey found. The survey, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found Democrats were more likely to support the procedure, at 77 percent in favor of protecting IVF. Over half of Republicans, 56 percent, said the same. Forty-one...
Trump's acceptance speech at next week's Republican convention could be one of the most important speeches he has ever made.
First-term Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) on Friday called on President Biden to “pass the torch” and withdraw from the presidential race. Her statement came the morning after the president’s widely anticipated news conference to wrap up the NATO summit in Washington, which supporters hoped would quell Democratic fears around his campaign. She is the 17th House...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met with President Biden Thursday night to relay the sentiments of the House Democratic Caucus regarding his reelection bid, as concerns grow within the ranks about the incumbent’s ability to beat former President Trump in November. The meeting — revealed in a letter to colleagues Friday morning — came after Jeffries...
Unfortunately, there is a long history of presidents and their staffs hiding their health from the public, but this obfuscation undermines the very foundation of our democracy.
Jill Biden is headed to the Olympics, leading the presidential delegation to the Summer Games in Paris later this month. The first lady will touch down in France for the opening ceremony on July 26, the White House announced Friday. It's not the first time that Biden has attended an Olympics event: She led the U.S....
The House Republicans’ campaign arm announced on Friday that it had broken its fundraising record for a second quarter of an election year The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said it had raked in $37 million during April, May and June of this year – the largest-ever haul for House Republicans during the second quarter...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is seizing on reports that allies of former President Trump are declaring that the 2024 election will not be legitimate. The campaign has labeled the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 as “Trump’s Project 2025,” although Trump has distanced himself from the initiative. On Friday, it declared it's “Jan 6 Déjà Vu” after...
A security breach at AT&T exposed call and text data from nearly all of its customers, the company revealed Friday. The records of most of AT&T’s cellular customers between May and October 2022, as well as a single day in January 2023, were illegally downloaded from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform, AT&T said. ...
Political polarization in the U.S. has reached a dangerous level, with social media platforms promoting misinformation and distrust, leading to extremism and alienation, and a lack of shared experiences between Americans.
Employee incentives have had a bumpy ride over the past few years. Pre-pandemic, the lavish perks available at some of the world's largest tech companies were often spoken about with an almost hushed reverence. Ping-pong, pool tables and pizza parties aside, these amenities also included things like free on-site gyms for workers, nap pods, childcare...
Does it feel hotter on your block than the temperature predicted by your local TV meteorologist? The urban heat island effect may be to blame.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said discussions about ousting President Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee have become public is because the president has been “cloistered.” Axelrod joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday to discuss the growing number of Democratic lawmakers and donors who are calling on the president to step aside and the conflicting information...
The race between President Biden and former President Trump is in a statistical deadlock two weeks after the first presidential debate, a new survey found. The survey, conducted by Marist National Poll for NPR and PBS News, found that among registered voters, the race is still as close as ever, despite the chaos following Biden...
The job of American voters just became more important and more difficult.
Actress and activist Ashely Judd on Friday became the second high-profile celebrity this week to call on President Biden to end his reelection campaign and allow someone else to take on former President Trump this fall. In an op-ed in USA Today, Judd noted that some of her closest friends and family are Trump supporters....
Oil prices are up 15 percent compared to last year, while gasoline prices have hardly budged.
Former MSNBC host and political analyst Chris Matthews said that “the elite”critics of President Biden are “going to pay for it.” Matthews joined MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday to discuss Biden’s political future amid a growing number of Democrats calling on him to step aside. “Right now, he’s got the poor people, he’s got minorities,...
Perhaps Trump has actually changed the game, and Biden is literally following the Trumpian populist playbook to survive.
“Beef” not “chicken” has been the fuel to this culture all along.
The Democratic National Committee rolled out its first paid media campaign linking former President Trump to the Heritage Foundation's conservative governing agenda known as Project 2025. The campaign consists of billboards that will be launched in major cities in large battleground states, including Raleigh, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Phoenix, and Las...
The Department of Education would be eliminated, student loans would be privatized and federal legislation on parental rights would be pushed under Project 2025, the conservative wish list of policies put together for the next Republican president that has sparked widespread controversy. The education portion of the sweeping platform, put together by a coalition of...
