Xi asks Trump if U.S. and China can avoid ‘Thucydides Trap’ at high-stakes summit … BEIJING — U.S. President Donald Trump met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday morning, kick-starting a high-stakes summit that is expected to cover trade, tariffs, Taiwan and Iran, and runs through Friday.

Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic  —  We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.  —  The continued fallout from the Supreme Court's destruction of the Voting Rights Act has placed American democracy on a knife's edge.

The Right's Worst New Star Just Shot Someone  —  There's a truly villainous new livestreamer who's become a cause célèbre on the right—a guy so bad he makes Clavicular's videos about drug overdoses and the Israeli mafia look like an episode of Bluey.

U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud  —  The decision came after a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  When the Justice Department indicted India's richest man …

Exclusive: Acting AG Todd Blanche was told last year to recuse from Justice Department matters involving Trump  —  Donald Trump Federal agencies Trump legal cases People in entertainment  —  It was less than two weeks after Todd Blanche took on his role of deputy attorney general in March 2025 …

Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions Seeking Sway  —  Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE backed Affinity Partners in hopes of gaining White House influence and investment returns.  The US war with Iran that they opposed has shown the constraints of that approach.

Trump Iran Tirade Visibly Rattles GOPers as Leaks Expose New Blunders  —  The fallout continues from Donald Trump's startling rant admitting that he isn't concerned with how the Iran war is impacting Americans' finances.  On Wednesday, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and numerous other Republicans struggled …

Proof the New York Times is Biased in Trump's Favor  —  President Donald Trump is on an official U.S. state visit to China, and he brought American business leaders in pursuit of deals.  One is Trump's biggest campaign donor Elon Musk, which is very corrupt.

Population Growth Holds Steady in Midsized Cities Amid Widespread Slowdown  —  Largest Cities Faced Sharpest Declines in Population Growth  —  MAY 14, 2026 - Amid a widespread national slowdown in population growth, midsized cities remained close to the previous year's patterns between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025.

White House planned to start Triumphal Arch work under unrelated contract  —  The unusual move would allow the administration to bypass a public bidding process, relying on a deal for engineering services already underway at the White House.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration planned …

Counterterrorism Czar's Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump  —  For a year, White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka promoted the national strategy he was drafting, saying he was pouring his “life's work” into a “massive” …

Democratic Lawmaker, 83, Has Been Missing for a Month  —  Representative Frederica Wilson has yet to explain why she hasn't voted on a single issue since April 17.  —  The Florida Democrat has been missing in action for weeks, according to her documented voting record.

A Failing, Flailing President Supplicates Xi  —  One of Donald Trump's signature claims is that Joe Biden made America a “laughing stock”, and that he has made us great again and respected around the world.  —  Yet this is the opposite of the truth.  As a result of Trump's petulant …

Here's What I Told the DNC Autopsy  —  YOU MAY HAVE HEARD about the Democratic National Committee “autopsy”—the post-election report commissioned by the DNC in 2025 to examine what went wrong in the 2024 campaign.  —  And you may have heard that it was never released to the public.

The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet … douglas wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote.  In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently.

Cuba Runs Out of Fuel, Plunging Country Into Darkness and Protests  —  Cuba said the country has completely run out of the diesel and fuel oil it needs to keep its power plants running, with civil unrest starting to break out amid a de facto US energy blockade of the communist-run nation.

Senate adopts measure to suspend senators' pay during future shutdowns  —  The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to suspend senators' pay during future government shutdowns, a new rule that could give lawmakers in the upper chamber …

The assault on higher ed goes deeper than you think  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  👨‍🎓 Subscribe to PN 👩‍🎓  —  President Donald Trump went after Ivy League schools with a vengeance straight out the gate during …

Israel to take legal action against ‘New York Times’ over claims of ‘dog rape’ of Palestinians  —  PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar instructed officials to prepare a defamation lawsuit against “one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published” on Israel.

Max Miller sues ex-wife and her legal team for domestic abuse allegations … According to Miller's complaint, Emily Moreno and her legal team “engaged in a defamatory campaign against [Miller] to malign his character, undermine his odds at re-election to Congress, and falsely portray …

Insurers shouldn't make healthcare decisions: There's a better way  —  All too often in America, patients discover they cannot obtain a prescribed medication or schedule a prescribed test because of two words: prior authorization.  Doctors may recommend a treatment, but insurance companies often must approve the treatment in advance.

White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California … Medicaid is a joint federal-state partnership.  California has already paid providers serving the low-income patients in the program.  CMS will not pay the federal government's share unless the state meets the agency's requirements …

A year of Trump is backfiring on the religious right  —  Americans don't really want “Christian nationalism.” … This weekend, an array of Christian religious leaders and government officials are scheduled to gather at the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Inside Jack Schlossberg's Chaotic Campaign to Revive Camelot  —  Erratic behavior and staff turnover have colored Mr. Schlossberg's bid for a House seat in New York, raising questions about his readiness for office.  —  Reviving a political dynasty is best not left to chance.