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    Podcast: Gender-Neutral Dolls Are Coming
    Sep26

    Podcast: Gender-Neutral Dolls Are Coming

    A major doll company just released a new line of gender-neutral dolls. What does that mean for our culture? We discuss. Plus: We feature a segment from our “Problematic Women” podcast in which Lauren Evans interviews Heritage Foundation labor expert Rachel Greszler. Evans and Greszler unpack the myth of the wage gap and how it’s now being...

    Trump’s Ukraine Call Was an Abuse of Power—and This Time, He Can’t Claim Ignorance or Inexperience
    Sep26

    Trump’s Ukraine Call Was an Abuse of Power—and This Time, He Can’t Claim Ignorance or Inexperience

    One method occasionally used to excuse or explain President Donald Trump’s behavior is an appeal to the president’s lack of formal political experience. After fired FBI chief James Comey testified back in 2017, for example, Paul Ryan, who was at the time the speaker of the House, said Trump is “new at this” and “not...

    Acting DNI Didn’t Think Whistle Blower Complaint Was Election Security Issue
    Sep26

    Acting DNI Didn’t Think Whistle Blower Complaint Was Election Security Issue

    The acting director of national intelligence didn’t consider the whistleblower’s complaint that’s led to an impeachment inquiry to be an election security matter — but rather one concerning “a conversation by the President with another foreign leader.” The complaint largely focuses on events surrounding a July 25 call in which...

    John Yoo Warns That Impeachment Would Undermine Presidential Power. That’s the Point.
    Sep26

    John Yoo Warns That Impeachment Would Undermine Presidential Power. That’s the Point.

    The Berkeley law professor John Yoo warns that impeaching Donald Trump over his alleged solicitation of re-election assistance from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy could undermine presidential powers to conduct foreign policy and protect national security. Given Yoo’s expansive understanding of those powers, that prospect may count...

    Manafort Is the Key
    Sep26

    Manafort Is the Key

    I’ve been waiting for this to come up. According to Murray Waas writing in the New York Review of Books, Rudy’s excellent Ukraine adventure began not as an effort to damage Joe Biden but to discredit the case against Paul Manafort and lay the groundwork for a pardon. It will take a while to suss out the precise order of events and...

    The Risks of Impeachment Are Overblown
    Sep26

    The Risks of Impeachment Are Overblown

    For months, the biggest hurdle for Democrats pushing the House to open impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump was the party leadership’s concern that such a process would politically endanger the members at the far edge of their majority, especially the 31 representing districts that voted for the president in 2016.But there’s...

    ‘You’ve Caused Hurt and Disappointment.’ Hongkongers Lash Out at Embattled Leader During Town Hall Meeting
    Sep26

    ‘You’ve Caused Hurt and Disappointment.’ Hongkongers Lash Out at Embattled Leader During Town Hall Meeting

    Hong Kong’s embattled leader faced a barrage of criticism Thursday night as she held a town hall-style meeting in her first overture to the public since pro-democracy protests erupted in the Chinese-ruled city nearly four months ago. The over two hour-long dialogue, which at times descended into emotional tirades and salvos directed at the...

    The Whistle-Blower’s Explosive Allegations
    Sep26

    The Whistle-Blower’s Explosive Allegations

    President Trump and many of his aides engaged in a months-long effort to strongarm the Ukrainian government into discrediting his political rivals, then worked extensively to cover up the evidence of their wrongdoing, according to a whistle-blower complaint released Thursday.The document shows that a huge range of officials throughout the...

    Germany quiet on Trump, Ukraine badmouthing during call
    Sep26

    Germany quiet on Trump, Ukraine badmouthing during call

    BERLIN (AP) – During a telephone conversation that now underlies an impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy briefly bantered about a U.S. ally in Europe. “Germany does almost nothing for you, all they do is talk,” Trump told his counterpart in Kyiv. Zelenskiy agreed, replying,...

    DNI Maguire Won’t Say If He Discussed Whistleblower Complaint With Trump
    Sep26

    DNI Maguire Won’t Say If He Discussed Whistleblower Complaint With Trump

    Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire refused to tell the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday whether he’d discussed an explosive whistleblower complaint with President Donald Trump. During Maguire’s hearing, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) asked the acting DNI if he’d spoken to Trump about the whistleblower...