On May 12, 2026, two of the most consequential financial disclosure documents of the Trump presidency landed on the U.S. Office of Government Ethics' desk. Both were OGE Form 278-T periodic transactio...
Stock market bubbles are easier to identify in retrospect than in real time. We are sitting in May 2026, with Nvidia having crossed a five trillion dollar market capitalization, with the Magnificent 7...
For 41,000 Americans living with Huntington's disease, there has never been a single approved treatment that slows the progression of their illness. Not one. By June 2025, after seven years of cli...
On Friday, May 1, 2026 - the day the 60-day War Powers Resolution clock was set to expire on the war with Iran - President Trump sent a letter to Congress declaring that the hostilities that began on ...
In early August 2025, Donald Trump publicly demanded the resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Two weeks later, after a face-to-face meeting at the White House, Trump bought 10% of the company instead....
At 3:00 a.m. Eastern on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines shut down. Seventeen thousand jobs are gone. It is the first major U.S. airline liquidation in 25 years, and the chain of events that produced it b...
On April 27, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund, Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund, with an initial capitalization of $25 billion. The catch? Canada is runni...
Today, April 29, 2026, marked Jerome Powell's final FOMC meeting as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. After more than eight years at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world, Powell will...
The James Comey indictment that landed today - making him the first former FBI Director to be charged with felony threats against a sitting President - has Washington reaching for the history books, a...
In May of 2025, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar filed her annual financial disclosure with the U.S. House Clerk. The numbers were stunning. Her household, which had reported a net worth between rou...
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Translation? "The Gate of Tears". "The Gate of Grief". "The Gate of Anguish". All are used, and all apply. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Middle East with East Afri...
The Strait of Hormuz is 21 nautical miles (approximately 24 statute miles, or 39 km) wide at its narrowest point. On an average day in 2025, approximately 20 million barrels of oil passed through it -...
The price of oil is currently a hot topic right now, as the war in Iran has sent the price of a barrel of oil shooting higher. Oil is extremely volatile and always has been. Case in point? In ...
How much did the United States spend on World War I and World War II, and how do these costs compare to the costs of modern warfare? Compared to World War II and modern wars, World War I was relati...
Which US President suffered the greatest loss in a midterm election? That "distinction" belongs to President Grover Cleveland, who lost 116 House seats and 4 Senate seats in the 1894 midterm electi...