Trump Announces the US Will Withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal
Zach Gibson/ZUMA President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, bashing the historic agreement brokered by the Obama administration as a “horrible, one-sided” accord. The decision comes days ahead of the May 12 deadline Trump had set for renewing the accord—which its proponents consider to have been essential to…
Trump Frees Iran to Pursue Nuclear Weapons
Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua via ZUMA President Trump has officially announced the he will withdraw from the Iran deal. For something that everyone’s known for weeks or months, he sure got a lot of media mileage out of it. But I wonder if this is really true: A second person familiar with negotiations to keep the 2015…
Meet the Intellectual Dark Web
My Twitter feed is full of blather about “the Bari Weiss” article this morning, so I figured it was my duty to check it out: Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard of the Intellectual Dark Web: There are fundamental biological differences between men and…
The First Campaign Ad Against Devin Nunes Doesn’t Mention Two Big Things
Credit: Andrew Janz for Congress This morning, Andrew Janz, a 34-year-old Fresno prosecutor aiming to unseat Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), launched his first television ad in the closely-watched race in California’s Central Valley. Though Janz has hit hard at Nunes in the past, the new spot doesn’t mention his opponent once. Instead, the 30-second clip…
There Are Fewer and Fewer People to Fill All the Job Openings
Last month the number of job openings was greater than the number of unemployed for the first time since 2001. But since we’ve been talking about the declining employment-population ratio lately, I thought it might be interesting to see the number of job openings compared to all nonworking people aged 25-54. Here it is: Remember…
Lawmakers Just Might Do Something Positive for Pregnant Women for a Change
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed nation. Every year, hundreds of American women still die in childbirth—and that number has increased over recent years. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWithin these grim statistics, for certain groups, giving birth is especially dangerous: Black mothers die at three times the rate of…