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Some of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s most persistent tormentors assembled Friday to defeat a stopgap spending measure to avoid a government shutdown, the latest episode in a pattern of blocking his efforts in the House. [...]
Federal prosecutors argued that the former president has continued to make threatening statements after their initial request to limit his public discussion of the case. [...]
As the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Menendez bucked Democratic colleagues — and presidents — on matters ranging from Cuba to Iran. [...]
Any deal to keep it open would have to be bipartisan, since the Senate and White House are controlled by Democrats, and the House by Republicans. [...]
I’ve been re-reading with great pleasure John Le Carré’s mid-80s novel A Perfect Spy, which is a kind of roman à clef about the writer’s turbulent relationship with his father, [...]
March 2024 will be the seventieth anniversary of Edward R. Murrow’s 1954 See It Now program that kicked McCarthy’s butt all over the TV screen. Murrow ended with these words: “The actions [...]
The United Auto Workers have struck now for two weeks. Using a novel strategy to keep management on its toes, namely walking out at various plants at unexpected times, a [...]
On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair, the Indian Singaporean rapper more commonly known as Subhas, was found guilty on four counts of “promoting enmity between different groups [...]
The game of musical chairs is popular with children. If the child’s game is based on successfully sitting on a chair when the music stops, recent diplomacy at the U.N. [...]