Category: Economy

As Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris and her team race to vet poten­tial run­ning mates fol­low­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s depar­ture from the 2024 race, Sen. Mark Kel­ly (D‑AZ) is emerg­ing as an asset who could help counter one of Harris’s biggest weak­ness­es: the administration’s han­dling of the bor­der cri­sis. Sources have con­firmed Kel­ly is being vet­ted […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – “Lead­er­ship” by a “states­man,” Demo­c­ra­t­ic North Car­oli­na polit­i­cal lead­ers say, was evi­dent when Pres­i­dent Joe Biden gave an Oval Office address. Sev­en­­ty-eight hours of silence to the nation he leads since Sunday’s awk­ward exit for reelec­tion end­ed Wednes­day night with Pres­i­dent Joe Biden speak­ing to Amer­i­cans. The state’s Democ­rats heaped praise […]

Kamala’s path to vic­to­ry Democ­rats’ shiny new object in the form of a new pres­i­den­tial can­di­date has been a boon. Vice Pres­i­dent and pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Kamala Har­ris is boast­ing his­toric fundrais­ing num­bers, haul­ing in $80 mil­lion in her first 24 hours and $124 mil­lion in less than a week. Vot­ers are excit­ed to turn out […]

Like Pres­i­dent Joe Biden before her, Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris‘s map back to the White House is poised to go through Penn­syl­va­nia. While prop­er polling of Harris’s prospects against for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump this Novem­ber is only days old, the bat­tle­ground state data, instead of her fundrais­ing num­bers and social media memes, under­score how Trump […]

Pete Buttigieg, sec­re­tary of trans­porta­tion and for­mer may­or of South Bend, Indi­ana, has returned to the pub­lic spot­light as a pos­si­ble run­ning mate for Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris, the pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee. A can­di­date for pres­i­dent in 2020, Buttigieg is a Rhodes schol­ar and the first open­ly gay man in a pres­i­den­tial Cab­i­net posi­tion. Among […]

Texas is the largest oil pro­duc­er in the Unit­ed States. Noth­ing sur­pris­ing there, but the state is also, per­haps less well known, the largest pro­duc­er of wind ener­gy. It also comes in sec­ond as the country’s largest pro­duc­er of solar pow­er, behind only Cal­i­for­nia. Per­haps that makes it a very good exam­ple of how ener­gy […]

Repub­li­can vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH) has been her­ald­ed as a sort of intel­lec­tu­al prog­en­i­tor of “Trump­ism” as a polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy. The Ohio senator’s career has evolved from his best­selling mem­oir and excur­sions in ven­ture cap­i­tal to becom­ing for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s run­ning mate on the 2024 GOP tick­et. But for all of […]

One of our wis­est philoso­phers (Homer Simp­son) described tele­vi­sion as “teacher, moth­er, secret lover.” Real­i­ty tele­vi­sion belongs to that final clas­si­fi­ca­tion, a mis­tress we can’t quite quit yet also will nev­er intro­duce to our par­ents. It is ubiq­ui­tous as dirt and as dirty as, well, dirt. Crit­ics have most­ly treat­ed it like dirt, too. Cue […]

The White House is keep­ing its work on pro­posed changes to the Supreme Court under wraps from key Sen­ate Democ­rats even as some seek to offer their two cents on poli­cies they would play a cru­cial role in pass­ing dur­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s final months in office. Sev­er­al Democ­rats on the Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry Com­mit­tee sur­veyed […]

Catholic social con­ser­v­a­tives are call­ing on Repub­li­can vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH) to clar­i­fy his state­ments about access to the abor­tion pill, mifepri­s­tone, say­ing that his lat­est stance runs con­trary to his Catholic faith. Vance, who con­vert­ed to Catholi­cism in 2019, has made oppo­si­tion to abor­tion a cen­tral part of his pub­lic iden­ti­ty […]