Martin Van Buren should never have been president. That’s not an insult. America’s eighth chief executive belongs to a distinct phylum of presidents: those who possessed skills both extraordinary enough to elevate them to the White House and yet not quite aligned with what the nation actually needs from a commander in chief. James Madison,
With a foot out the door of the Oval Office, President Joe Biden, in a meaningless but official-looking document, declared that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which failed in 1982 when the extended period specified by Congress for its ratification elapsed, has actually been ratified and is now the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of
Trump scores some early wins. But how long will it last? Donald Trump (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Donald Trump does not formally become president until Monday, but his second term got off to a momentous start this week. As was the case in 2016, he mounted the bully pulpit long before he entered the Oval Office,
DOE’s inspector general warned just weeks earlier that loan program carries ‘significant risk of fraud’ Jigar Shah (energy.gov), hydrogen facility (Plug Power Inc./X) President Joe Biden’s departing green energy loan czar this week finalized a controversial $1.6 billion federal loan to a green energy company with which he had prior financial ties—a farewell shot at
Last April, the Biden administration finalized environmental rules that effectively force gas and coal plants to adopt carbon capture—an expensive and controversial process in which emissions are stored underground—or risk shutting down. Months later, in November, a senior Biden EPA official told activists to “keep fighting” an ExxonMobil carbon capture project in Texas, the Washington Free
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris declared on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is “the law of the land.” It isn’t, as Biden and Harris do not have the authority to approve constitutional amendments, their statements carry no legal weight, and the U.S. archivist tasked with certifying the amendment has repeatedly
‘Don’t sit there wringing your hands, going, “I’m not going to get the Jewish vote,” because that’s just not the case,’ Scarborough says MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday that Jewish Americans will always vote Democratic, even if the party becomes tougher on Israel and puts conditions on military aid to the Jewish state. “After