I Helped Run “War Games” on Trump’s Plans. They Were Not …
3 days ago · In the simulations, Trump announced his agenda and initial actions (we asked players to draw solely from actions Trump himself has indicated he supports), and players took turns responding to one another as the “games” unfolded. “War-gaming” exercises like these can help test assumptions, forcing participants to respond to dynamic ...
The Best People Just Bought Alex Jones’s InfoWars
1 day ago · Alex Jones at an anti-shutdown protest during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Alex Jones’s conspiracy-laden media properties, including the website InfoWars, have been purchased at a bankruptcy auction by an unlikely entity: the satirical news outlet The Onion. The satirical magazine, which refers to itself as “America’s Finest News Source ...
The Real Reason Texas Isn’t Turning Blue | The New Republic
3 days ago · While Cruz underperformed Trump in counties across the state, Allred also underperformed in almost all of the state’s most populous counties—most of which already swing Democratic—and barely won more than Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 total. He even lost his home district, Collin County, by nearly six points.The loss was so bad that Texas’s longtime Democratic Party chair, Gilberto Hinojosa ...
The Most Infuriating Search Term Is Trending in States Trump Won
2 days ago · The search became so popular that it hit 100, according to Google Trends, which registers searched phrases on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 indicating the peak popularity for a term. Some of the states that Trump won by the biggest margins, such as Iowa, generated the highest number of state-by-state queries for the term.
The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression | The New Republic
3 days ago · The most profound obstacle Babb faced in her strenuous life was a case of bad writerly luck of now-legendary proportions. Just when her carefully composed early short stories and essays began attracting the attention of New York editors, she signed a contract for a novel about the Dust Bowl, based on her youthful experience in Red Rock, Oklahoma; and in order to further research the westward ...
Democrats Flip Key New York Seats as They Battle for House Control
Nov 7, 2024 · Democrat Josh Riley beat Republican Representative Marc Molinaro, who recently pivoted from a pragmatic brand of conservatism to full-on MAGA, with 51.8 percent of the vote at 96 percent reporting in a rematch from the 2022 midterms.. Democratic state Senator John Mannion beat Representative Brandon Williams with 53.9 percent of the vote at 84 percent reporting, flipping New York’s 22nd ...
Harris Picks Up One Crucial Electoral College Vote in Blow to Trump
Nov 6, 2024 · Harris won the single electoral vote from Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district, the Associated Press called Tuesday evening. The blue dot was important to Harris’s campaign, and she now has 210 electoral college votes to Trump’s 230 votes, as both candidates race toward the 270 votes needed for victory. Trump has already pulled off a ...
Trump Serves Up One Last Insult to Working-Class Voters
Nov 5, 2024 · Trump wants to scale back overtime coverage from the current four million workers to a stingy one million. (That’s what he tried to do when he was president.) For seven years—appropriately, the length of a biblical plague!—I’ve wondered whether working stiffs who support Trump harbor some sort of death wish. Just last week Trump carried ...
Republicans Take Control of the Senate in Major Upset
Nov 6, 2024 · Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate, according to the Associated Press. Republicans held 51 seats Tuesday night and Democrats held 42. There are still seven seats to be called. The House majority has not yet been determined. Ahead of the election, several GOP contenders found themselves struggling in states where the top of the ...
60 Minutes Epically Drags Trump for Chickening Out of Interview
Oct 8, 2024 · Pelley explained that the Trump campaign had requested that the 60 Minutes team meet the former president for a sit-down interview in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, as well as a meeting in Butler, Pennsylvania, to which they had agreed. But on September 9, they received word from Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung that the campaign was still working on the ...