Former President Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to âend fossil fuels,â and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris wasnât planning to change the direction of U.S. energy […]
Trump Signs Tax and Spending Bill
Senate Republicans worked over the last weekend of June to secure the votes necessary to advance the bill under the budget reconciliation process, which allows legislation to be passed with a simple majority. On Monday morning, it was time for the vote-a-rama, during which senators can offer unlimited amendments on…
Patriots in the U.S.A.
I chose to write about how the American Revolution really was an honest-to-goodness revolution and was seen as a really big deal at the timeâand for the half century after. But then, by the middle of the 19th century, the American Revolution was cut out of the story of the…
A Declaration Against Idolatry
The Declaration of Independence is a loaded gunâlike Chekhovâs rifle, you cannot just expect it to hang there on the wall without anybody ever trying to use it. But ignore that document was precisely what the founding generation didâthe Declaration looms large in our political imagination today, but Washington, Jefferson,…
Male fan falls from stands at Pittsburgh Pirates game against Chicago Cubs
An adult male fan fell onto a baseball field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday night, during the seventh inning of the Pittsburgh […]
Tulsi Gabbard closes office she claims acted as ‘slush fund’ for DEI
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday told President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting that she has closed down an office that operated […]
The Ugly American
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/trumppierre2.jpg?w=1024 âTrump just âGeorgia-edâ an entire country,â financier Clifford Asness declared this morning about the results of Canadaâs parliamentary elections. Itâs funny âcause itâs true. […]
Republicans Hone the Fine Art of Responding to Trump
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2208002493.jpg?w=1024 Congressional Republicans who have been around since 2017 already know the routine: At any moment, the president couldâat a public appearance, on social media, […]
Is This What Trump Voters Wanted?
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2211177284.jpg?w=1024 Nearly 100 days into his second term as president, things are clearly not going great for Donald Trump. His administrationâs first major domestic undertaking, […]
Fired anti-Trump prosecutor running for congressional seat faces tough questions in case he led
A former federal prosecutor with vocal anti-Trump views who was fired in late March is facing tough questions about his handling of a high-profile case […]
Green Shoots
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2210188547.jpg?w=1024 So maybe Chuck Schumer was right. Last month the Senate minority leader made an enemy of, well, just about every Democrat in the country […]
The Good Tsar
https://thedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2207999111.jpg?w=1024 The genuflecting yellowbellies of the Cowardsâ Caucus in Congressâwhich is to say, Republicans as a wholeâhave groveled mightily in seeking to curry favor with […]
Trump fired a Democrat for refusing his orders, Christian employers are fighting to keep her fired
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took a hard line against Christian employers under President Biden, forcing them to pay for employees’ hormone and surgical […]