Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill”  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Parliamentarian again advised that several provisions in the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.

Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship  —  The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.  —  On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist …

White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing  —  Top officials will brief lawmakers on Thursday amid a political battle over what intelligence reveals about the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities.  —  The White House plans to limit classified intelligence sharing …

Iran's Khamenei Makes First Public Comments Since Cease-Fire With Israel  —  Supreme leader strikes defiant tone in a video statement, after not being heard of or seen publicly in days.  —  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Iranians for what he described as a victory …

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed …

Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.

The US economy shrank much faster in the first quarter than previously reported  —  The US economy contracted in the beginning of the year at a much faster pace than previously reported, after new data factored in much weaker consumer spending.  —  Gross domestic product …

What It Took To Win  —  The old saw goes that politics is the art of the possible, but it often seems like the art of the impossible: putting together winning coalitions that “objectively” seem to defy logic—or at least, the logic of the pundits.)  My favorite example of this is Trump managing …

Scholars Continue Lambasting Higher Ed While Trump Upends It  —  This year's Heterodox Academy conference—the first since Republicans retook the White House—featured similar complaints about academe as in years past.  But the federal government's sweeping interventions raised questions about what's really warranted.

Trump Organization scraps ‘made in the USA’ tag for its gold T1 smartphone … The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag.

‘Pure Shamelessness’: Critics Rip Karoline Leavitt's ‘Dangerous’ New Lie For Trump  —  Some compared the White House press secretary to North Korean state media.  —  Critics are urging White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to brush up on history after she went a little too far …

The Paramount Risk in Settling Trump's Lawsuit: ‘Bribery’?  —  Any settlement during merger review will be a Democratic target.  —  An error occurred.  Please try again later.  —  Months after Paramount reportedly began talks to settle President Trump's false-advertising claim against CBS, the company is still holding fast.

Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.

Pritzker launches campaign for 3rd term as Illinois governor  —  The Democrat's reelection bid comes amid speculation he might run for president in 2028.  —  CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is running for a third term in 2026 — even as questions swirl about whether he will make a bid for president two years later.

This Isn't Negotiation.  It's Authoritarian Extortion.  —  In April, Harvard stood up for democracy.  —  When University President Alan Garber wrote to the Harvard community on April 14 that the University would fight the Trump administration's authoritarian attacks, Harvard students, faculty, and alumni rallied behind him.

It's Mamdani Time!  —  The upside potential and downside risk of the new Democratic party.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Today I want to disentangle personal preferences from objective analysis.  Zohran Mamdani is not my cup of tea.  He would not have been my first, second, third, or fourth choice.

“Bizarre” DOJ lawsuit fuels Trump's war against judicial branch  —  The Trump administration's unprecedented decision to sue all 15 federal judges in Maryland for slowing his deportation agenda broaches a dangerous new phase in his push to stifle the judiciary, legal experts warn.