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If you think people with opposite political ideologies are wired differently than you, a recent study in the scientific journal Politics and the Life Sciences reveals you may be correct.In a study titled “Differential brain activations between Democrats and Republicans when considering food purchases,” authors Amanda S. Bruce, John M. Crespi, Dermot J Hayes, Angelos Lagoudakis, Jayson L. Lusk, Darren M. Schreiber and Qianrong Wu studied 65 politica

President Donald Trump’s “recent adventurism” in Iran is likely to fail, warned a retired four-star general on Monday — and it is because he does not understand the magnitude of what he has done in Iran.Speaking with David French of The New York Times, retired General Stanley A. McChrystal linked Trump’s invasion of Iran with his unilateral tariffs, economic confrontation with China and threats toward Canada and Denmark. “Now, there was no military action taken. But there was no cost to it,” McChrystal told French. “And then shooting at the drug boats in t

President Donald Trump is a habitual liar who may also suffer from serious mental illness, a seasoned journalist argued on Monday — but the mainstream media is too cowardly to call it out.“For a while now, I’ve been imploring the leaders of our top news organizations to call out Donald Trump’s derangement,” wrote Dan Froomkin, editor of Press Watch and former journalist at The Huffington Post and The Intercept. “My argument is simple: It is the central, underlying explanation for everything else they’re covering.”Yet, as Froomkin

Few circumstances are more dangerous to American and world security than an American president -- specifically, Donald J. Trump -- who lies brazenly to the public in time of war. At a moment when his assault on Iran has jeopardized the global economy in a way not seen for four decades, Trump appears to be prevaricating about his government's "very good talks" with the regime in Tehran.It is reassuring that Trump postponed his mad threat of military strikes on Iran's energy infrastructure. It is not reassuring that Iranian officials immediately denied that they are engaged in any contacts, let alone negotiations, wit

President Donald Trump wants to ban mail-in balloting, and MS NOW analyst Jordan Rubin is concerned that the Supreme Court is prepared to help him do it, even if that means “injecting needless chaos” into American elections.“The Supreme Court may be on the verge of injecting needless chaos and uncertainty into the midterm elections and beyond,” Rubin wrote for MS NOW. “That possibility was on display Monday, when the court heard a GOP-backed challenge to counting mail ballots that come in after Election Day, even if they’re post

President Donald Trump’s surprise war against Iran did not factor in the implications of an important consideration, and a foreign policy expert who “war gamed” this conflict is calling it out.“Kasie, I've war-gamed the Iran war plan a number of times across multiple administrations,” Brett McGurk, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant under both President Barack Obama and Trump himself, told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Monday. “And I think what the administration said earlier — a 4-to-6-week military campaign — was about right. If you're g

President Donald Trump promised that if he was elected, he would impose high tariffs and thereby help America’s beloved and lucrative automobile industry. Instead, expert economists revealed on Monday that the tariffs have actually done “the opposite of what Trump promised.”Describing a “tariff shock” caused by Trump’s policies, the car magazine WardsAuto reported that “the financial toll has been swift and steep. General Motors projects a tariff hit of $3.5 to $4.5 billion in 2025. Ford absorbed an $800 million second-quarter blo

Donald Trump, in the 2024 presidential election, not only attracted his hardcore MAGA base — he also expanded his appeal, winning over newcomers who included Latinos, independents, swing voters, tech bros, the Manosphere and Generation Z. It was still a close election; Trump won the national popular vote by roughly 1.5 percent, but he returned to the White House on January 20, 2025 with a lot of converts who were willing to give him a chance.Fourteen months into his second presidency, however, Trump is suffering from low approval ratings in poll after poll. I

A new report revealed the grim outlook the White House has about the ongoing war with Iran, with one defense specialist noting that President Donald Trump is now stuck fighting a war to undo the fallout he created by going to war in the first place.Over the weekend, the Washington Post released a report containing insights from White House sources, indicating that the administration now believes it is "unlikely" that they will be able to achieve the original goal of the joint assault with Israel, which was to unseat the current regime leading Iran. With that plan out the window, officials have seized on another goal that could serve as

President Donald Trump once again walked back a major threat over the weekend, this time directed at Iran amid the ongoing war. While this latest retreat has "emboldened" belief in the "Trump Always Chickens Out" — or, TACO — trend, according to an analysis from Australia's ABC News, it also shows that he does not "fully comprehend" the weight of his own words.With global oil prices continuing to skyrocket in the fallout of Trump's war, the president on Saturday threatened in a Truth Social post to "obliterate" Iranian power plants with military strikes