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WHITE HOUSE
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33Texas’ Senate race has tightened dramatically, and Ken Paxton is getting help from one of the state’s most experienced Republican campaign machines. Ted Cruz is opening donor networks, campaigning beside Paxton, funding attacks on James Talarico and quietly advising the Republican nominee as the race enters its final month.
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Seattle will push its minimum wage to $22.14 an hour in 2027. That sounds like relief for workers living in an expensive city. But raising the number on a paycheck does not answer the harder question: why have housing, taxes, energy, transportation and basic business costs become so expensive in the first place?
2 min read84Sep 30, 2026WORLD
Iran finally received the formal American response it had been demanding. The original seven-day proposal had already been publicly rejected by President Trump, and the message now reaching Tehran is clear: if Iran wants an agreement, the terms will have to change. Meanwhile, the rial is at a record low, oil exports remain squeezed, China has publicly rejected tolls on international waterways, and Washington is adding—not removing—economic pressure.
5 min read68Sep 30, 2026U.S.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring that the federal government should begin moving beyond the language of “Artificial Intelligence.” The new terminology is “Super Intelligence” — and the order makes clear that the White House sees what is coming as far bigger than another generation of software.
2 min read122Sep 30, 2026U.S.
Trump’s latest push on college athletics is about NIL money, transfers and the financial survival of smaller sports. But underneath it is a more fundamental question America has spent years avoiding: if the women’s category is not ultimately protected by biological sex, what exactly is that category designed to protect?
2 min read70Sep 29, 2026OPINION
Gas prices are up. The Iran conflict is expensive. Household budgets are feeling it. Normally, that would look like dangerous territory for the party controlling Washington. Yet one of the more interesting questions heading into the midterms is whether a significant bloc of Republican voters is evaluating this moment differently: not asking whether every policy feels good today, but whether they believe the larger direction of the country is worth absorbing short-term pain. Polling does show economic frustration. It also shows something else—the Republican coalition increasingly identifies itself as working class, culturally conservative, and willing to organize around causes larger than one monthly expense.
5 min read2.6kSep 26, 2026POLITICS
Washington’s confrontation with universities gets most of the headlines: DEI restrictions, accreditation reform, admissions scrutiny, visa rules and billions of dollars in disputed federal funding. But focusing only on Harvard and the Ivy League misses the larger project. The Trump administration is attempting to reshape American education from elementary school through college around four ideas—academic excellence, parental choice, merit and civic education. Texas is already showing what one version of that experiment looks like.
5 min read148Sep 26, 2026WORLD
Iran’s president used the U.N. stage to portray his country principally as the victim of American and Israeli aggression. Less visible were the negotiations happening around him: Tehran has now put reopening the Strait of Hormuz on the table, is exploring a phased exit from the seven-month conflict and, according to Reuters, may even defer one of its most controversial demands. That does not prove every element of President Trump’s Iran strategy was correct. But it does provide evidence for one of his central arguments: overwhelming military and economic pressure can create negotiating leverage.
5 min read167Sep 25, 2026POLITICS
Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding gift from Russian businessman Umar Kremlev is already under congressional investigation. Trump Jr.’s wife says Kremlev is a personal friend, President Trump says his son reimbursed the expense, and no public evidence has yet established that anything was promised in exchange. So why is Republican Sen. John Curtis now asking the Senate to open another investigative front before the first one has produced its findings?
4 min read153Sep 22, 2026U.S.
The Trump administration says it is removing roughly 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage after identifying enrollments it says were fraudulent, unauthorized, ineligible or tied to people who may not exist. The action could save taxpayers an estimated $2.2 billion, while another 419,000 enrollments are being subjected to additional eligibility checks. The larger story is not simply Obamacare—it is how weaknesses in verification created opportunities for brokers and other bad actors to collect taxpayer-funded subsidies using people who sometimes did not even know they had been enrolled.
5 min read139Sep 22, 2026U.S.
President Donald Trump says the United States will create a new “AI Force” and appoint an “AI czar,” comparing the initiative to the Space Force he established during his first term. The announcement signals an effort to centralize federal attention on artificial intelligence as Washington wrestles with two competing priorities: keeping the United States ahead of China while managing increasingly powerful technology safely.
5 min read139Sep 21, 2026WORLD
A look at how Greenland fits into a much larger shift in global power—where geography, military access, technology, trade, and strategic alliances are reshaping the balance between the United States, Europe, China, Russia, and the Arctic. What may look like isolated decisions could actually be pieces of a much bigger geopolitical realignment.
5 min read128Sep 21, 2026WORLD
President Trump unexpectedly returned to the White House early from Camp David, U.S. diplomatic missions across the Middle East warned Americans to prepare for possible escalation, and reports began circulating that Iran had moved its armed forces to a maximum “Code 100” alert. Some pieces of the puzzle are confirmed. Others are not. The real story may be more consequential than the rumors.
5 min read4.3kSep 20, 2026POLITICS
AI leaders are issuing some of their strongest warnings yet. President Trump says America cannot afford to panic and surrender the technological race. Somewhere between those positions lies a question Washington can no longer avoid: what exactly needs to be regulated today?
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