Author: Jeremy Lott

Sometimes, politics is the art of the impossible. Every time the Senate has changed hands in recent history, nine times starting with the 1980 elections, the party in power has threatened to scrap or at least limit the filibuster. This procedural blocking mechanism requires a supermajority of 60 votes in the 100-member chamber to cut…

Justin Trudeau chose Jan. 6, a day fraught with significance for Americans, to announce he will depart from the Canadian Office of the Prime Minister. He did so after last year’s visit to President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club spectacularly misfired. Sitting at the table in Palm Beach in late November, Trudeau had begged the once…

Tourists at the Universal Studios resort and theme parks in Orlando, Florida, can attend a special seasonal performance from Dec. 22 through New Year’s Eve called “Grinchmas.” The event promises “warm fuzzies with a side of sarcasm” centered on the classic Dr. Seuss children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “During the holiday season, Seuss Landing,” which…

Politicians and their ghostwriters regularly churn out books in many different well-worn genres, including memoirs, policy manifestos, and novels. Still, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) latest book, published in November by Grand Central Publishing after his party’s stinging losses in House, Senate, and White House elections, is a departure from what his predecessors would…

In the early morning after the Nov. 5 presidential election, off-hours trading of futures contracts tied to American stock exchanges surged. They did so largely on the news that Donald Trump, the United States’s 45th president, would also be its 47th. That news started an expected rally on Wall Street as well, during normal trading…

American farmers are not happy. The Ag Economy Barometer is a joint survey by Purdue University and the CME Group that measures the mood of farmers nationwide. It found plummeting confidence as winter approaches. “These were the weakest barometer and future expectations readings since March 2016, when the farm economy was in the throes of…

Democratic President Harry Truman popularized the term “do-nothing Congress” and rode that taunt to an unexpected victory in 1948. Truman, a vice president who rose to commander in chief after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945, didn’t simply beat his Republican opponent, New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, that year. His party also came roaring…

As the Democrats made their pitch for Vice President Kamala Harris at the national convention in Chicago in August, one question weighing on many voters could be stated: “Can we afford four more years of this?” The Biden-Harris administration hasn’t been all bad economic news. On the upside, the United States dodged a recession that…

Lloyd Bentsen was the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate par excellence in 1988. Bentsen, a representative from Texas for six years through early 1955, left Congress to go into business and made his fortune in land development and banking. Bentsen won a Senate seat in the state by defeating Houston-area Republican Rep. George Bush — no…

President Joe Biden’s shock July 21 announcement on X that he would not stand for reelection, months after securing enough delegates to be his party’s standard-bearer, left some questions about what this would mean for Vice President Kamala Harris. The note thanked Harris near the end for “being an extraordinary partner” in pushing White House…