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President Donald Trump has promoted his “Trump Accounts,” or stock market investment accounts for American children, as being great for future generations — but experts are not so sure.“The federal government is less than two months away from opening Trump Accounts for private contributions on July 4, 2026, and a debate over what should go in them has begun,” wrote TheStreet's Damilola Esebame on Sunday. “White House and Treasury officials have discussed allowing wealthy donors to contribute shares of stock directly into the children's savings accounts, a shift that could reshape the prog

President Donald Trump is losing the war he started with Iran — and a political expert is warning the president will behave increasingly erratically because he psychologically cannot handle losing.“We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate, but cannot,” Robert Reich, who served as President Bill Clinton’s labor secretary, wrote for The Guardian on Friday. Describing Iran’s success in imposing economic pressure on the United States by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, and thereby rising prices on gas and food, Reich describe

A Democratic congressman recently accused members of his own party of applying a double-standard to the issue of anti-Semitism — that is, condemning it when it comes from Republicans but turning a blind eye when it comes from Democrats.“Consider the response to — really, the embrace of — Hasan Piker, a prominent left-wing commentator with millions of online followers,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) wrote in a New York Times editorial published on Sunday. Gottheimer had previously criticized the neo-Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville in 2017 and the popular alt right influencer Nick Fuentes.“He referred to Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred’ and said ‘America deserv

President Donald Trump and the Republicans are so unpopular, a political scientist was able to break down a long litany of Democrats eager to run in the 2028 election — some of whom, they added, have a realistic chance of winning.After describing Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear as “too dull” and insufficiently “exciting, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was then described as “potentially the candidate who could win a lot of Black support but also reach out to a lot of white voters,” at least based on what Seth Masket, a professor at the University of Denver in political scie

Immigration lawyers representing the global elite are warning their clients to steer clear of Trump's "gold card" visa program, calling it legally dubious, financially risky, and potentially worthless, according to a report in the Washington Post. The program, which Trump has promoted as a fast-track to residency for wealthy foreigners willing to invest $1 million to $2 million, has become a cautionary tale in the immigration law community. Seven immigration attorneys told the Washington Post they have either st

Anti-Trump activist groups across the country are facing an uncomfortable reality: the resistance to authoritarianism is overwhelmingly female, and organizers are struggling to figure out why men have largely checked out of the fight for democracy.In a Brooklyn-based activist group that doubled in size since November 2024, women now comprise roughly 80% of participants, up from 65% during Trump's first term. The pattern is consistent nationwide. Research from Dana R. Fisher at American University shows that participants in "Resistance 2.0" are "predominantly white, highly-educated, female, and

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton ripped into his own party this week, declaring that Democrats have surrendered the role of leadership and become little more than a reactive force against Donald Trump—a strategy he says is a guaranteed loser."It's not enough just to get on TV and complain. You got to give people a vision of the future," Moulton told John Avalon on the Bulwark's "How to Fix It" podcast. "I think that's something that Democrats especially need to do right now."Speaking as he campaigns for U.S. Senate against 80-year-old incumbent Ed Markey, Moulton hammered his party for what he called

President Donald Trump is reportedly cultivating tension between two of his top officials, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as he tantalizes each with the prospect of being the Republican nominee in 2028.“Every now and then, while talking to officials in the Oval Office, with friends over dinner, or on the patio at Mar a Lago, President Trump pauses and muses aloud about a subject quietly captivating the Republican Party,” The New York Times reported on Sunday. “What do you think? JD or Marco?”The Times cited multiple sources close to

Subhed: Evergreen, because over 100 years later, the personal is somehow still politicalMy mom died from Covid in 2020, just after Mother’s Day. I couldn’t write about it until I could be honest about who she was, a feat complicated by my then-pending Congressional race, which served my own a-- to me on an unceremonious platter. Apparently climate change wasn’t at the top of voters’ concerns then; today it seems

In the middle of the most unpopular war in over 75 years—one that has created a political disaster for the Trump administration—the White House had to use the precious time of its Secretary of State to send him to the Vatican yesterday to do damage control. Think about that. The Vatican isn’t a country with a military, nor is it some massive trading partner with the U.S. It’s a tiny nation-state. But its leader nonetheless has influence on people around the world and on millions of Americans, and is currently very popular. He’s not someone you want to mess with, even if he criticizes your policies—you just politely, very respectfully ignore him as presidents have done for generations—because he’