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Say what you will about Texas lawmakers, but they are an innovative bunch. Two years ago, they managed to end legal abortion—even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—by passing an abortion-bounty law that was enforced through civil lawsuits. Now their latest burst of creativity is in the sphere of immigration.

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, faced with insurmountable debt after he was found liable for defaming two Georgia state election workers.

A Colorado court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot may have unfurling implications across the nation.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused President Joe Biden of treason, just hours after appearing to commit sedition herself.

A pair of Republican leaders have stayed noticeably mum on the Colorado Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 election ballot.

“The Era of Big Taxes Is Upon Us” announced a Wall Street Journal headline earlier this week. You could have fooled me. In 1980, according to the nonprofit Tax Policy Center, the average total tax burden in the United States was 22.4 percent of household income. That was President Jimmy Carter’s last year in office. By 1988, President Ronald Reagan’s last year in office, that had fallen to 21.9 percent. By 2019, the last year for which the Tax Policy Center has any data, it was down to 19.4 percent. Читать дальше...

Fox News host Laura Ingraham has started a wild new conspiracy about why Donald Trump is facing so many legal trials.

“Greta Thunberg deals a cruel blow to the Jews,” read a recent Boston Herald headline. The writer cited a long list of deadly and horrific violence committed against Israeli civilians by Hamas on October 7. “For me, amid all this,” he wrote, “it was Greta Thunberg who delivered an exceptionally cruel blow.”

All right, friends. Let’s play Jeopardy!

Forgettable Losers for $200, you say? Very well! The answer is: Theodore Pomeroy and Michael Kerr.

Players? Anyone?

Oh, so sorry. The correct question is, Who are the only two House speakers in U.S. history whose tenures were shorter than Kevin McCarthy’s?

Yes, readers, this is true. Pomeroy, by all accounts a reasonably impressive and quite well-liked politician, was an accidental speaker, serving for only one day in 1869, as a... Читать дальше...

Democratic nominees for president have long counted on dominating the youth vote to help propel them to victory, and that held true for Joe Biden in 2020. A record number of young voters turned out that year, with Gen Z (those aged 18–23 in 2020) and millennials (24–39 at the time) favoring Biden over then-President Trump by a 20-point margin.

Kellyanne Conway explained the Democratic agenda on Wednesday—no, not the party’s policy platform, but the way individual Democrats spend each day.