Author: W. James Antle III

The end of Elon Musk’s time at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency is the latest chapter in a long story: Republicans are better at cutting taxes than cutting spending. This was true long before Musk or President Donald Trump. It’s a fact that complicates the path forward for the Republican reconciliation bill…

The cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s age-related decline is as much a media scandal as a political one. An appropriately skeptical press would have asked consistently penetrating questions about the oldest president in history and continued to press the issue when it was clear the White House was hiding something (often, the president himself).…

President Donald Trump suffered a stunning setback when a federal court ruled he lacked the legal authority to impose sweeping tariffs unilaterally, but the political impact may not be so negative. Both the stock market and Trump’s job approval ratings took a hit after the “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement in April. But Trump’s poll numbers…

When CNN’s Jake Tapper went on his book tour, he probably did not expect it to turn into an apology tour instead. Yet that is what has happened as his media blitz has quickly given way to mea culpas.  “Knowing what I know now, obviously I feel tremendous humility about my coverage,” Tapper confessed to…

President Donald Trump laid down the law with fractious House Republicans as they prepare for a key vote on his agenda. We’ll soon see if they are listening even to the Republican leader with the most credibility with the party’s base, one who many lawmakers credit for their majorities on Capitol Hill in the first…

Many Democrats are saying now is not the time to discuss former President Joe Biden’s health while in office in the wake of his prostate cancer diagnosis. The news that Biden is suffering from an aggressive form of cancer that has already spread to his bones came as yet another book about his condition as…

When then-President Joe Biden invited comparisons to Franklin D. Roosevelt during a meeting with historians, the possibility he might end up in a wheelchair while in office was surely not what he had in mind. But FDR went down in history as a Democratic icon who changed the presidency. He was also successful in a…

The weekend of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner reopened the debate over how the press corps covered former President Joe Biden’s age-related decline while in office, a story that for many sounded too conservative to be true. Alex Thompson, a political reporter for Axios who had written extensively about Biden’s 2024 meltdown, received an…

If Franklin D. Roosevelt became known for the New Deal, President Donald Trump is staking his second term on numerous deals. Trump is trying to conclude a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, telling reporters Thursday that he would “rather answer” questions about what he might do to extract concessions from the Kremlin “in a…

Less than 560 days away from the midterm elections, both President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents are underwhelming in most polls. The midterm elections may come down to which party is least unpopular when voters head to the polls in 2026. Trump won’t be on the ballot then or, barring the repeal of the…