Author: Jeremy Lott

Washington state is normally a lock for Democrats. The Democratic Party has held the governor’s mansion since 1985, including one agonizingly close election that is widely regarded by local Republicans to have been stolen. Washington Democrats now control statewide elected offices after the lone Republican, then-Secretary of State Kim Wyman, got sideways with the GOP…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) didn’t have many victories in the struggle over the large budget reconciliation bill that Republicans pushed through Congress and President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4. However, he did change its name. “I raise a point of order against lines page 1, lines 3-5, of the pending…

“A hostile and political act.” Those were the words White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt used in a late April briefing to discuss something Amazon was reportedly considering. A new line item at the website’s checkout might show customers how much the price of any given item was being increased by Leavitt’s boss, President Donald…

The first meeting between Mark Carney as Canada’s elected prime minister and President Donald Trump could have gone better, but it was far from a disaster. Trump opened the May 6 press conference that preceded the more formal White House meeting by congratulating Carney on winning a “very big election in Canada” at the beginning…

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon, criminals have made off with tens of billions of dollars in precious cargo — every year. That’s the basic sales pitch by the supply chain lobby for the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025, or CORCA, introduced in the House and Senate in April. “Cargo…

The global price of gold rose above $3,000 an ounce on March 14 and has stayed close to or even above that price ever since. That figure is relevant because of what it says about investors: they’re spooked. Gold can fluctuate in price but tends to hold its value better than most global commodities for…

Vice President JD Vance took a page out of Hamlet and charged that something is rotten in the state of Denmark in a short video announcing his visit to Greenland. “Unfortunately, leaders in both in America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long,” Vance said in a one-minute video posted to…

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his ambition to annex Greenland while leading an administration that’s only the latest in a long list that wanted to do just that. To wit, in 1868, then-Secretary of State William Seward proposed acquiring the world’s largest island, by far, from Denmark to help “command the commerce…

A president usually gives their inaugural address time to sink in and saves the State of the Union address for the following year, when they are constitutionally obliged to make some report to Congress. President Donald Trump went a different way with his March 4 address, which was billed as a joint address to Congress.…

President Donald Trump has been threatening a trade war with Canada. One contention is his charge that the markets of America’s northern neighbor are not truly open to many U.S. businesses. He promises trade turmoil until he feels that the northern border is more secure and American businesses are getting a fairer shake. “Canada doesn’t…