Dearborn’s Arab Americans didn’t just vote for Trump — they punished Harris

DEARBORN, Michigan — Arab American leaders for months warned Vice President Kamala Harris that she needed to separate herself from President Joe Biden’s support of Israel in the war in Gaza — or face an electoral backlash from this influential community in a key battleground. But those pleas went largely ignored. Instead, Harris made strategic… Continue reading Dearborn’s Arab Americans didn’t just vote for Trump — they punished Harris

Run, Writer, Run!

Politics Run, Writer, Run! Once upon a time, American political campaigns were literary. Once upon a time, American writers enlivened—even conducted—political campaigns with wit and flair and acute diagnoses of national ills. Perhaps J.D. Vance, freed of the constraints of second-bananadom, will do so atop the GOP ticket in 2028. Till then, the acme of… Continue reading Run, Writer, Run!

BPD: 13-year-old girl is missing

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community’s help in locating a missing 13-year-old girl who is considered to be at-risk because she has no history of running away.

This Is the Difficult Part

Politics This Is the Difficult Part Governing is hard. Credit: Katherine Welles When I was young, there was a fairly poisonous piece of advice floating around for college applicants: “Getting in is the hard part.” This, I discovered, was dangerous nonsense—Calc 4 was significantly more difficult than anything I’d done in my high school years,… Continue reading This Is the Difficult Part

Trump Announces Readiness to End Gaza War in Call With Abbas

President-elect Donald Trump held a phone call with the Palestinian Authority’s President Mahmoud Abbas, Abbas’s office has reported.  According to the announcement, Abbas expressed a desire “to work with President Trump to achieve a just and comprehensive peace based on international legitimacy.” Trump told Abbas that he would “work to stop the war,” and that… Continue reading Trump Announces Readiness to End Gaza War in Call With Abbas

Musk Joined Trump’s Zelensky Call

Axios has reported that the tech mogul Elon Musk was present on President-elect Donald Trump’s Wednesday call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. This was the first time that Trump and Zelensky have spoken to each other since they met in New York in September. During the call, Zelensky congratulated Trump on his re-election, and allegedly… Continue reading Musk Joined Trump’s Zelensky Call

Trump Says Haley and Pompeo Have No Place in Cabinet

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley will not be part of his administration. In a post to Truth Social, the 47th president wrote that while he “very much enjoyed and appreciated” working with the pair previously, neither will be part of… Continue reading Trump Says Haley and Pompeo Have No Place in Cabinet

‘We know what is coming’: Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election

Thousands of federal bureaucrats have lived through one Donald Trump administration. Many are not sure they can or will survive a second. POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen civil servants, political appointees under President Joe Biden and recently departed Biden administration staffers in the days since the presidential election was called for Trump, who… Continue reading ‘We know what is coming’: Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election