Today, Donald Trump unveiled the White House budget for 2019, and it’s packed with cuts to fundamental American institutions from the state department to public broadcasting. But there’s little chance that the proposal will ever become reality.
Donald Trump unveiled the White House’s radical 2019 budget proposal today, pledging to end “wasteful spending” and—surprise!—build a wall on the border with Mexico.
Attorneys general in many US states are part of a secret online network that enables corporate donors to review and comment on public policies before they’re made, according to a joint article by The Intercept and Maplight, a bipartisan group examining money’s influence on US politics.
Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda will shrink the US trade deficit and overturn “decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies,” the president promised at last week’s State of the Union address.
Donald Trump signed into law the “Bipartisan Budget Act” today, a sweeping deal that increases US discretionary federal budget spending by over $400 billion in the next two years.
Fake news, bots, and propaganda were hot topics at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last month, and Google executives there floated an intriguing idea to some fellow attendees—what if the company could tell users whether information is trustworthy before they shared it on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?
Donald Trump referred to Democrats who didn’t clap at his State of the Union address on Jan. 30 as “treasonous” in a speech in Ohio today.
Is that all there is? Not quite.
Reasonable people are saying the US appears to be teetering on the edge of a constitutional crisis, as the system of checks and balances that has kept democracy humming in America for more than 240 years could be on the verge of breaking down.
Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who is best known for leading the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s oversight of the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, said unexpectedly today (Jan. 31) he would retire at the end of his term in November, rather than stand for reelection.
Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech was supposed to focus unifying America, but it instead highlighted many of the biggest gaps and cultural battlegrounds of his first year in office.
The response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech tonight (Jan. 30) will be delivered by Joseph Kennedy III, 37-year-old grandson of senator Robert F. Kennedy, who has spoken eloquently against repealing Obamacare and tax cuts for the rich on the House floor as a representative from Massachusetts.
After months of grousing publicly about deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, Donald Trump finally got what he wanted today: McCabe, a 20-year veteran of the FBI, stepped down.
In Davos this week, 3,000 world leaders and business bosses attended hundreds of talks, workshops, dinners, and other get-togethers. The takeaway: Artificial intelligence and climate change are going to ruin us, but blockchain and women are going to save us.
Davos, Switzerland
Davos, Switzerland
A growing number of Davos attendees are planning to walk out of US president Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum this Friday (Jan. 26), several conference-goers told Quartz, to protest his remarks about African countries earlier this month.
Donald Trump lands in Davos tomorrow to join thousands of of global leaders and CEOs at the the World Economic Forum. His massive advance team arrived early, though, and for just a few hours in the Swiss town, the world saw what the administration would look like without its current president.
Liu He, Chinese president Xi Jinping’s right-hand man and the mastermind behind the country’s economic policy, made a concrete pledge to the country’s 1.4 billion citizens today: In three years, your skies will be blue again.
“Why is Donald Trump coming to Davos?” is a question that has been posed many times since the US president said earlier this month he would attend the annual meeting of global elites—a gathering he gleefully trashed on the campaign trail. The very theme of this year’s World Economic Forum, “Creating a shared future in a fractured world,” seems pointedly aimed at countering Trump’s populist, nationalist agenda.
Davos, Switzerland
We increasingly live in our own echo chambers, surrounded by like-minded peers convinced that the rest of the world has got it all wrong. Around this time each year, one of the biggest bubbles envelopes the Swiss resort of Davos, where the global elite gather for the World Economic Forum to cheer on free trade, free markets, and the liberal world order.
Did the National Rifle Association take money from a Kremlin-linked Russian banker, in order to support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign? According to McClatchy, that’s what the FBI is now investigating. It is illegal to accept money from foreign citizens for a US election campaigns.
The message from the White House on immigration is becoming clear: Donald Trump won’t sign any immigration bill without billions of dollars in additional border security funding, much of which is designated for a controversial wall on the Mexico border.
