[ad_1] Datawrapper As can be seen from the general election time betting market punters are quite sure that there will be no contest this year. While I think that this is true, I wouldn’t give it an 89% chance as…
[ad_1] Rep. Kevin McCarthy has become the speaker of the House, but only doing so by offering a series of concessions that effectively means that the speaker will be constantly under threat from his own caucus. McCarthy’s agreement to downplay…
[ad_1] Charlie Brown never kicked the football, Ralph Bellamy never got the girl, but early on Saturday morning, Kevin McCarthy was finally the speaker. On the 15th ballot, a total not achieved since before the Civil War, McCarthy finally received…
[ad_1] After days of negotiations and a failed vote in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy and his GOP House leadership allies have struck a proposed deal with a bloc on the far right that puts him close to becoming…
[ad_1] The economy is confused now. Many economists predict the United States will enter a recession next year. Inflation remains very high, and the Federal Reserve continues to aggressively raise interest rates. But the labor market is steady: Employers are…
[ad_1] The new year could not start worse for House Republicans: 11 failed attempts to elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, infighting between the rank and file as fringe members of the party holding the rest of the room hostage,…
[ad_1] If Sunak and his party had hoped that the new year would at least show a sign that the situation would improve, so far they have been disappointed. All polls this year have LAB leading by 20% or more…
[ad_1] A new Alzheimer’s treatment appears to be on the verge of being approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. But that milestone, given the current lack of effective treatments, has been complicated by recent revelations about the FDA’s…
[ad_1] What has been rocking American politics for a week is still not over and that is the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. As we know, Republicans won the midterm elections for the House of Representatives,…
[ad_1] House Republicans who ran and hid in fear during the Capitol attack showed their lack of character and patriotism when they chose not to recognize Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Michael Moore suggested that Senators who voted not to certify…