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Washington Post financial advice columnist Michelle Singletary said echoes of the Republican-era 2008 housing crisis are creeping back into a new presidential administration.“This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble,” Singletary told the Post. Again, like the 2008 ruination, this new brewing crisis is ensnaring moderate- and low-income homeowners first. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data reports that mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging, according tothe recently released Household Debt and Credit report for the fourth quarter of 2025.“Accord

Guardian writer Eduardo Porter reports President Donald Trump’s purported dedication to U.S. manufacturing is a pointless delusion.“There is an undeniable appeal to the hard hat and the grease-stained overalls; to the sweat on the brow of hard men in vintage posters; to the virtue of a hard day’s labor on the production line. But the American political class would do well to overcome its nostalgia for the past and forget about promises to make manufacturing great again,” said Porter.Objectives to increase manufacturing don’t even work politically, Porter added, w

A New York Times panel reports that President Donald Trump’s unique fondness for yes-men making him a kind of Geiger counter for identifying miscreants.“You know, one of the things I think the second Trump term is showing is that Trump is performing a function of ‘the great illuminator’ of the true core of people,” said Times Columnist David French. French cited as example U.S. AG Pam Bondi’s recent attempt to dodge lawmakers’ questions about why she halted a federal investigation into

“War Room” co-host Natalie Winters noticed national headlines were eager to tout China’s decision to reduce its painful embargo against U.S. soybean farmers as a kind of “win.” But this was no win."Soybeans are a solid proxy for how the United States deals with China: small, transactional, immediately legible 'wins' pitched as strategic breakthroughs. A shipment resumes, a statistic ticks up, a headline declares progress. Meanwhile, Beijing quietly continues accumulating long-term advantages," Winters writes in The American Conservative, adding that "Even after this

We've now entered another partial government shutdown – this one affecting Homeland Security services only because stubbornness over Donald Trump's insistence of shielding ICE and border police tactics.But, we are told, it won't affect the deportations because DHS already got so much money for its enforcement activity. Instead, the Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA employees will be asked to work for no pay, even as Secretary Kristi Noem struggles to avoid blame by the public and even Trump for creating what feels a political problem.Even if it did not seem as if every action in this Trump administration is motivated by partisan politics or adjudged for "support for the Trump agenda," we're hearing an extraordinary series of actions caused by plain old incompetence.The ordered 10-day shutdown – and reopenin

Follow-up interviews with Trump supporters one year later reveal a souring on the administration’s policies — and not for just one reason.“Inflation, immigration, and Epstein are all in the mix, but there's a giant mosaic of disappointments,” reports Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell, while reviewing voters comments in a Saturday podcast.“I would like to know when the last time anybody in Congress or anybody up in the realm there bought a loaf of bread,” ranted one former Trump voter. “I mean, they all talk about economies getting better, but even just loaf of bread, it's really n

The right-wing manosphere and its conservative influencers have long served as the yapping chorus for the Trump administration — so much so that President Donald Trump elevated two of it’s more vocal members to positions in the FBI.But Salon reports former Fox News regular, grievance podcaster and now FBI head Kash Patel has been drawing rancor from the right-wing media ecosystem that once elevated him, “mo

Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, something Vladimir Putin’s been dreaming about for decades: he’s convincing our oldest and closest allies, countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, and with whom we share a democratic system of government, that the United States can’t be trusted.For example, France’s government just announced it’s ripping U.S. videoconferencing platforms — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and others — out of its government offices nationwide and replacing them with a new French-created system called “Visio.”That’s roughly 2.5 million French public employees who’ll no longer be using American digital products because the French have concluded that U.

MS NOW co-anchor Jacqueline Alemany says House Democrats are so convinced they will stampede the chamber in November that they are already planning to investigate U.S. companies that paid President Donald Trump millions for political favors.Trump may thump his chest over Democrat-led House investigations, but tech giants, oil companies, defense contractors and Fortune 500 CEOs still fear congressional subpoenas and congressional scrutiny. “Now, as House Democrats plot a return to the majority, they are pledging to probe the deals, mergers, settlements and regulatory favors that flowed to corporations doing business with the Trump administration,” reports Alemany.Democrats are currently in the minority

The Missouri prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, has taken part in meetings since last fall with lawyers tasked by President Donald Trump to reinvestigate his loss to Joe Biden. Thomas Albus, whom Trump appointed last year as U.S. attorney for Missouri’s Eastern District, has had multiple meetings set up with top administration lawyers to discuss election integrity. At those meetings was Ed Martin, a Justice Department lawyer who until recently led a group investigating what the president has described as the department’s “weaponization” against him and his allies, according to a source familiar with the meetings who spoke