Author: W. James Antle III

Former President Jimmy Carter, a onetime naval officer and peanut farmer who became the 39th president of the United States after promising citizens he would never lie to them, has died at the age of 100. Carter’s death marked the end of the longest life of any former U.S. president. George H.W. Bush, who previously…

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are two newer faces in President-elect Donald Trump’s orbit, but the debate they have set off about higher-skilled immigration has split the MAGA ranks for eight years. Trump himself has vacillated between siding with the populist and nationalist conservatives who have been his enduring supporters, many of them seeking a…

President Joe Biden is leaning heavily into his clemency powers in the waning days of his term, using a tool only available to an incumbent without fear of political backlash. Fading from public view as President-elect Donald Trump increasingly wields the bully pulpit, Biden started Christmas week off by commuting the death sentences of 37…

Democrats emerged from the federal government funding showdown with a little pep in their steps for the first time since Vice President Kamala Harris was defeated by President-elect Donald Trump. The prospect of a government shutdown over the holidays before Trump even takes office revived a familiar playbook for a party that will be shut…

The brief period of Republican unity that followed President-elect Donald Trump’s win in November is being brought to a close by conservative discontent with a short-term spending bill and congressional infighting. Trump’s point men on the new Department of Government Efficiency are leading the charge against a continuing resolution aimed at averting a government shutdown…

President Joe Biden emerged from his long winter’s nap to give a speech defending his economic legacy, and the next day it was reported that inflation was up for the second month in a row. The two phenomena are not directly related, but Biden’s Bidenomics swan song and the persistence of inflation together serve as…

President-elect Donald Trump has so far been relatively quiet as Republican senators have been slow to show their support for some of his Cabinet nominees. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) opened the door to backing Pete Hegseth, Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Pentagon, in the latest sign Republican opposition to his confirmation may be softening. …

The tepid Senate Republican response to some of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees has MAGA loyalists talking about primary challenges. One pro-Trump social media influencer wrote a viral post about Arizona Republican Kari Lake challenging Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) over the latter’s seeming reluctance to support Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense. Lake “was born…

Pete Hegseth is fighting for his future as the next secretary of defense, but his success or failure could have implications for others nominated by President-elect Donald Trump. Hegseth is the latest Trump pick to face an uncertain future in a Republican-controlled Senate after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, withdrew from consideration to…

Top officials in Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign are protesting a media “double standard” as they try to explain to liberal audiences what went wrong. On the liberal podcast Pod Save America, multiple Harris lieutenants complain that Harris was pilloried for her light media schedule while President-elect Donald Trump largely eschewed traditional media.…