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New Yorker Columnist Susan Glasser warned that President Donald Trump’s poisonous combo of strength obsession and failing health was likely going to push him to more and more extreme behavior as he rages against his fading vigor. Speaking with former Bulwark editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes on his Saturday year-in-review podcast, Glasser said the signs are already showing and we’re not even out of Trump’s first year of his second term.“You have a president pushing 80 who’s clearly less able to project physical strength than he was before,” Glasser said. “ … ‘Strong�

Religion News reports the 2025 year was a year of skepticism and spectacle “with a seemingly endless flood of social media content, creators and AI slop,” but some faith-based influencers managed to cut through the inanity and art-barf with something better.Rachel Griffin Accurso, 43, who recently hit the cover of Glamour magazine as one of its 2025 Women of the Year, can sometimes be seen in an upcycled dress embr

Republican commenter S.E. Cupp warns the U.S. economy is likely going to drag down President Donald Trump and his Republican Party leading into the midterms.“Looking back, if we're going to assess the health of this administration next year, come midterms, we'll be looking back at Liberation Day,” Cupp told the panel of CNN’s “Table for Five.” “I think the economy is going to be the main story as we head toward midterms and the economy is not great. … Now we have polling that shows voters — including Trump's own — blame him for the economy.”Cupp said Trump’s next big project is to manage the messaging and policy of his economic failures before it sinks the party.“I think the most disastrous part of this economy was his tariffs,” said Cupp. “They're dumb. They're economically bad.

The midterm elections for Congress won’t take place until November, but already a record number of members have declared their intention not to run – a total of 43 in the House, plus 10 senators. Perhaps the most high-profile person to depart, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, announced her intention in November not just to retire but to resign from Congress entirely on Jan. 5 – a full year before her term was set to expire.

When holiday celebrations are done President Donald Trump will be facing “daunting challenges in 2026,” said USA Today writer Bart Jansen.The lingering impasse over government spending is brewing in the House and Senate and Jansen said Americans will be facing a health care cost spike in 2026 now that Republicans and Trump have l

Former GOP Communications Director Tara Setmayer whacked President Donald Trump’s 2025 attack on comedians and entertainment as a sign of a weak man on MS NOW’s “The Weekend.”“He's done [this] from day one,” said Setmayer. “He went after the media, calling them the ‘enemy of the people.’ which was straight out of the dictator playbook that we've seen from the 1930s and 40s with Mussolini and Hitler. This is exactly what strongmen do. And Donald Trump is the most thin-skinned, boring whiner. He is a whiner in chief. He whines constantly about anyone who dares to say anything negative about him, yet he tries to portray that he's this big, tough guy. Really? Because that doesn't sound like someone who is a well-adjusted adult who can handle criticism.”

Republican pundit S.E. Cupp ragged President Donald Trump’s constant need for adulation and compliments.“There were some big tests [in Washington — one of them, loyalty,” reported “Table for Five” host Abby Phillip, before playing a montage of toe-kissing from President Donald Trump’s administrators at cabinet meetings. The cut-scene contained a flood of “thank yous” and “greatest president evers,” as well as a “Thank you for letting us get up every day and have a purpose,”—all of which caused a raft of cringing amid the “Tabel for Five” panel.“Just another day in the United States of North

The Guardian reports President Donald Trump is struggling to remain conscious at public events while opinion polls suggest Americans are turning against their president and Republicans make for the exits ahead of bleak congressional mid-terms next November.“… [T]his is a guy whose legacy may well be the political collapse of Republicans in this era,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “Put another way, rather than asking who is going to be the inheritor of the T

The New York Times reports residents of rural north California have longed to pull out of liberal California and merge with conservative territory in Oregon to form a new Republican state. But what they’re about to get instead is another Democratic representative.California responded to Texas’ mid-decade gerrymander for new Republican seats with its own upcoming gerrymander, which is likely to erase California’s Republican minority even further. Soon after state voters passed the November redistricting measure, Democrat Mike McGuire said he would run in the north California redrawn district. The Times reports Sacramento Valley residents

While growing up in a working-class town in New Jersey, my family took the morning and evening newspapers, the latter of which I dutifully delivered to the houses in my tangled neighborhood and along the two main thoroughfares that tucked us all in.When I’d get home from school, there’d be a mountain of bundled papers waiting for me on the curb. I’d sigh, roll ‘em up, wrap ‘em in a rubber band, pile ‘em in a Santa-like sack, hop on my bike, and sling ‘em in the vicinity of people’s porches. I had more than a few “uh-oh” moments when a paper would get away from me and head straight for a window, or a subscriber’s unsuspecting flower pot.That’s what mass-communicating looked like