58+ min ago  (50+ words) President Donald Trump's policies have hurt farmers so badly, Republicans are getting nervous that they could flip the state in both its Senate and gubernatorial elections. Well, number one, this is Iowa and the tariffs are hitting them really hard....

12+ hour, 57+ min ago  (45+ words) Yesterday, the Commerce Department released data on construction in April. It showed that factory construction is continuing to fall. In nominal terms, it dropped another 1. 2 percent in April from its March level. Adjusting for inflation, the decline would be roughly…...

1+ day, 30+ min ago  (52+ words) President Donald Trump's failure to negotiate an end to his war with Iran has led the administration to now absurdly claim the resulting rise in gas prices are a good sign for the economy. Kevin Hassett, the Trump-appointed director of…...

1+ day, 30+ min ago  (716+ words) With U. S. -Iranian negotiations stuck in purgatory, the hawkish hosts and contributors whom President Donald Trump listens to at Fox News have been weighing in on a potential peace deal. While the group was united in urging Trump to launch the…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (130+ words) A new ad from the conservative group Americans for Prosperity portrays Michael Whatley as a political outsider despite his two-decade career as a corporate lobbyist. A voiceover claims that "while others chased power, Whatley worked to make a difference," but…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (466+ words) President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time I think he and his minions could stoop no lower, they surprise me. There is simply no limit to Trump's…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (329+ words) In a cowardly move that should surprise no one, Republican lawmakers are lining up behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state's Senate race, endorsing a man whom many were very recently calling an amoral crook who belongs nowhere…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (54+ words) As the war with Iran enters its fourth month and President Donald Trump struggles to reach a peace deal to end the conflict he started, The Hill reports that Senate Republicans have become deeply divided over how to proceed. This…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (451+ words) The time has come to talk about raising the minimum wage. In fact, the conversation is way overdue. Though most states30, to be precisehave raised their wage floors relative to that of the federal floor, which has been stuck at $7. 25 since…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (170+ words) The Orwellian 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' Trump has created " the legal equivalent of twirling the combination lock on Fort Knox and driving off with gold bars " purports to be righting a wrong. The bogus (and badly written) "settlement agreement," which is laughable…...