Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly refused to acknowledge Donald Trump’s blatantly corrupt stock trading under fierce questioning by Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday.
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Warren hammered Bessent for pushing to end congressional stock trading, while Trump made more than 3,400 stock trades worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the…
It’s no secret that there’s been interest in another Olympics for Lake Placid, New York.
The site of both the 1932 and 1980 Winter Games has been floated for years as a potential bidder on behalf of the U.S. Even before Utah was awarded the 2034 Winter Games, state lawmakers in New York were pushing for a feasibility study.
Now, it appears New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is on board.
New York’s…
The architect of Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda is losing his influence.
White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller has aimed to rewrite U.S. immigration policy since his early days in Washington as a Senate aide. But even atop his perch within the Trump administration, Miller’s schemes have experienced myriad setbacks.
Thus far, the president…
As a _New Republic_ reader, you’re well aware that 2026 is a midterm year. But unless you’re a political junkie—or a voter in a handful of states—you might be unaware that primary season has already begun. Five states have held primaries already, while the rest are taking place this spring and summer. On the Democratic side, there’s no shortage of ideological disputes, age gaps, and longtime…
I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.
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The extraordinary defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary has unleashed much mockery of JD Vance, and it’s richly deserved. The vice president’s last-minute rally in Budapest cast the Hungarian election as a referendum on global illiberal movements, which makes Orbán’s epic defeat all the more humiliating for him—and for Donald Trump, who dispatched Vance and has long seen Orbán as a kindred…
“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…
Delcy Rodríguez , the long-time Venezuelan regime insider who took over after the United States abducted her boss Nicolás Maduro in January, had been under US sanctions since 2018. That changed on Wednesday, after the US lifted the sanctions against her. She is so far the only member of Venezuela’s governing elite to be removed from the…
“Diesel is literally the lifeblood of the economy.”
Two current commissioners are vying to lead Multnomah County in 2027, each promising a new governing style.
by Abe Asher
The race for chair of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners has begun in earnest.
Last month, Commissioner Shannon Singleton became the first major contender to declare her candidacy for the position being vacated by Jessica Vega Pederson. She was quickly joined by her…
Trump administration officials scrambled Friday to explain away the latest horrendous jobs numbers, but couldn’t conjure up more than blaming the weather or fake numbers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier in the day that the U.S. job market had shed 92,000 jobs in February, meaning that the U.S. economy has lost 19,000 jobs since April 2025.
National Economic Council Director…
Governing entails cooperation and compromise, even with a noxious authoritarian president. Zohran Mamdani is trying to thread the needle of obtaining…
Switzerland said on Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme.
“Switzerland stands ready at all times to offer its good offices to facilitate dialogue between the United States and Iran,” a Swiss foreign ministry spokesman told _AFP_.
On February 6, Iranian Foreign…
• US envoy says ‘significant work remains’ to end war
• No update from any side on territorial dispute
• Russia attacks Ukraine’s energy supplies
ABU DHABI: Ukraine and Russia swapped over 300 prisoners following “productive” talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, as a US mediator conceded that “significant” work lay ahead in the quest for a broader deal to end the war.
The negotiations are the latest…
Anti-immigration policies are racist. Our responses to growing hostility towards immigrants display the embeddedness of White Solipsism in our societies.