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- Why the Democrats Finally Folded
This is how the government shutdown was always going to end.For the past 30 years, the party that has forced federal agencies to close their doors in a funding fight has never actually achieved the policy outcome it was demanding. Republicans did not successfully pressure then-President Barack Obama to defund his signature health-care law when they shut down the government in 2013. President Donald Trump, during his first term, failed to persuade Senate Democrats to authorize his border wall in 2019.And over the past two weeks, a pivotal faction of Democrats abandoned their hope that Republicans would agree to extend insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act anytime soon. So late last night, they provided the key votes to begin the process of reopening the government after what has become the longest shutdown in United States history. (Final votes to end the impasse are expected in the coming days.)“I came… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - How Redistricting Turned a Setback Into a Bloodbath
In recent weeks, several states have raced to redraw their congressional maps, with parties looking to preserve or improve their chances ahead of 2026. Last Tuesday, California voters passed Prop 50, which will allow Democrats to redraw congressional districts to their own advantage, following similar efforts by Republicans in Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Utah and North Carolina. But sometimes, when it comes to gerrymandering, politicians press their advantages too far. Political scientists have a term for parties spreading their vote perilously thin through redistricting: dummymanders. The idea is that, by spreading a party’s voters more thinly across a greater number of districts in order to pick up more seats, a new map will turn strongholds into potential areas of danger. Instead of having five districts where the party can generally count on 60 percent support, say, they’ll create seven districts where their likely share is more like 53 percent — leaving more… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - McCarthyism Is Back. You Can Thank This Woman.
Democrats and Republicans remain miles apart on nearly everything these days, but there is one point on which both parties are in complete agreement: McCarthyism is back. Under Trump 2.0, Americans in all walks of life — from college professors to late-night talk-show hosts — fear losing their jobs or even their right to stand on American soil for expressing views the administration opposes. For some members of the GOP, this rebirth of McCarthyist tactics represents a welcome patriotic turn that is rooting out threats to American values. When asked recently about her dogged efforts to fire federal employees because of their supposed disloyalty to President Donald Trump, Laura Loomer, the ultra-conservative activist and close ally of the president, declared: “Joe McCarthy was right. We need to make McCarthy great again.” The press — including this magazine — was quick to make the connection to McCarthy. In its original version,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed
In early 2023, Rebecca Smith was two months sober and looking for help. Her addiction to methamphetamines had cost her custody of her children, and she’d moved back home to Graham County, North Carolina, to rebuild her life. High cholesterol and heart problems ran in her family, and during her struggle with addiction she had been diagnosed with diabetes. She knew that staying sober would require taking better care of herself. She discovered Five Point Center, a nonprofit in her tiny, Great Smoky Mountains town that offered recovery support as well as free meals and groceries. Workers there told her about a new Medicaid program, the Healthy Opportunities Pilot, that would deliver boxes of fresh food to her home for free every week. Soon Smith, 35, was snacking on grapes instead of chips. She tried mangoes for the first time, and prepared Southwest chicken from a recipe that came with… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago - ‘Blowout Is the Word’It’s easy to find fractures in the Democratic Party, particularly as the center and left battle for dominance. But what’s to be gleaned from an Election Day when both factions win? Mikie Sherrill, a moderate who scored a surprisingly large victory in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race this week, sees a through-line between her election, and that of fellow moderate Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York. “I think what people want to hear is a leader who’s going to address their key issues, and then I think they want to see really good, clear results,” she said in an interview with The Conversation. “What all these races have in common is there is this desire to make change, that things aren’t working for people.” In 2024, Donald Trump made huge inroads in New Jersey by making gains with working class people, particularly among Black and… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago
- Trump’s Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabia’s
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Like Donald Trump, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman understands the power of personal branding. So you can’t go anywhere in the Saudi capital without seeing the face of the monarch known as MBS. The visage of Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader is plastered on high-rises and billboards. It greets you in the lobby when you check in at your hotel. When you open the blinds, daylight will be accompanied by his impassive stare on the side of a neighboring building, a scruffy beard under a keffiyeh, peeking between construction cranes that punctuate the desert horizon. It’s an unsubtle reminder of who is taking credit for Riyadh’s transformation. Investors and policymakers who’ve been coming here for decades told me that before MBS, the city was quiet, austere and medieval. Now, it’s a sprawling labyrinth of five-star hotels, luxury stores and megasized real estate developments, a metropolis that… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 weeks ago
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