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On Thursday, President Trump called for the execution of a number of members of the opposition party. This came after Democratic lawmakers released a powerful video informing military and…
The National Guard’s takeover of Washington was not legal, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday. Judge Jia Cobb ruled that the Pentagon had “exceeded the bounds of their authority”…
This week, chips were on the menu in the White House. “When you ask about AI and chips, Saudi Arabia has a huge need for computing power,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) said at a…
On Thursday, prosecutors moved to dismiss the charges just before a new hearing in federal court, where Martinez and Ruiz’s attorneys were going to reveal new text messages from Exum that…
This is a lightly edited transcript of the November 18 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon:…
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump and his administration are cracking down on universities,…
But the funny thing is, if you want to fix prices, this isn’t the way to do it, is it? No, it’s not. Bessent, who has the reputation of being one of the more rational members of Trump’s…
This was already an unusual move on the grand jury’s part; the cliché is that a decent prosecutor could get one to indict a ham sandwich. (Well, with some notable exceptions.) Prosecutors…
President Trump is cratering in two new polls. A Marist survey has his overall approval rating at 39 percent, and a Marquette poll has his approval plunging on the economy (36–64), tariffs…
Since beginning his second term in office, President Trump has taken a sledgehammer to climate action. His administration has made plans to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, canceled…
President Donald Trump’s newest plan to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would give President Vladimir Putin exactly what he wants—and Ukraine isn’t happy. Trump’s sweeping new proposal…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent struggled to sell President Donald Trump’s outrageous claims about how much money the United States is making from his trade deals. During an interview on…
Donald Trump’s approval rating is at an all-time low for his second term, and the president has his old pal Jeffrey Epstein to thank—and those pesky grocery prices. Only 38 percent of…
The Monday event was meant to be a triumph for Infantino, whose obsequiousness knows no bounds. Since taking over the fantastically corrupt governing body of global soccer almost a decade…
Suddenly, President Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymanders appears in trouble. A panel of judges just blocked the GOP gerrymander in Texas, which had added five…
Pigs famously have thick skin, and Donald Trump does not. It’s just one of myriad distinctions between the cloven-hoofed barnyard animal and America’s 47th president. There’s a good…
The United States, of course, is a “nation of immigrants.” That’s not a lie. No American citizen, with the exception of Native Americans, has a family history that does not involve some…
Iconic and recently troubled rapper Nicki Minaj will address the United Nations on Tuesday to speak up against what the Trump administration describes as “atrocities against Christians” in…
It would behoove the administration to apply the logic of the latest relief more broadly. Source link
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, reshared Donald Trump’s demand for Seth Meyers to be fired from NBC after being made the subject of his roasts on the host’s late-night show. Trump…
The countries named in the ban were Afghanistan, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Partial restrictions were…
Republicans in a red state have failed to initiate their pro-Trump gerrymandering efforts for the second time this month. On Friday, Indiana’s state Senate Republicans announced that they…
The recently ousted leader of the University of Virginia released a tell-all memo Friday on the DEI feud with Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin that cost him his job. In a 12-page letter…
“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know…
