The other day, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, admitted to The New York Times that he “misspoke” when he declared that his party’s tax plan wouldn’t raise taxes on any middle-class families. But he misspoke when he said “misspoke”: The proper term is “lied.” ...
The GOP bill that should be called the Cut Taxes on President Donald Trump and Other Very Rich People Act of 2017 always had a secondary purpose: to jack up the deficit so Republicans could later cry out in horror, “Look at that awful debt!” They’d then use the pools of red ink they created to justify deep cuts in social programs. ...
Despite new research by the federal government, which found “no convincing alternative explanation” to climate change other than it being caused by humans, the proposal to cut the EPA budget remains. ...
The National Science Foundation is proposing a nationwide bill that awards grants to institutions of higher education in order to foster young girls interested in computer science and other science, technology, engineering or mathematic occupations to pursue a degree in those fields. ...
The House Ways and Means Committee is currently marking up the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, bringing pro-growth tax cuts one step closer to long-awaited passage. It’s certainly long-awaited among small-business owners like myself. ...
Donald Trump has made it clear that he believes Vladimir Putin over our own intelligence agencies when Putin says he didn’t interfere with the 2016 presidential election. ...
According to his logic, if 500 people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas would have fired back with their Glocks or Smith & Wessons, they could have fired at the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay and stopped the man with the semiautomatic rifles. ...
Every time there’s a mass shooting, some say that this is not the time to talk about gun control and that we should pray for the people who were killed and wounded. ...
What happened at the polls last week was a good old-fashioned butt-kicking that exposed the cynical fraud called Trumpism. Hallelujah, people, and let’s do it again next year. ...
Like too many veterans, when Sanchez looked to exit the Marines and return to civilian life, he knew nothing of private-sector work and wasn’t sure how to find any. He recalls walking up and down Madison Avenue with a three-page resume. ...
The odd thing is that the siege mentality feels kind of good to the people who grab on to it. It gives its proponents a straightforward way to interpret the world — the noble us versus the powerful them. It gives them a clear sense of group membership and a clear social identity. It offers a ready explanation for the bad things that happen in life. ...