They lined up for hours‚ some of them‚ in the minus-38-degree wind chill to see their candidate. It was the only rally Donald Trump was giving in the state in the days before Monday’s caucuses‚ so for the MAGA faithful‚ this was the golden ticket. Need help navigating the Republican primaries? Get text updates from Karen Tumulty. For the lucky 500 Trump followers admitted to the event space‚ the Trump campaign played a video reminding voters that Trump had already come...

Mass immigration‚ and primarily illegal immigration‚ disproportionately makes black Americans poorer by reducing wages and crowding out the workforce‚ the United States Civil Rights Commission detailed in a briefing report from 2010. The bombshell report‚ conducted in 2008 and published in 2010 by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission‚ interviewed several experts and researchers reviewing the impact of mass immigration on black American communities. The report addressed “the consensus by...

Almost half of those who oppose a national abortion ban voted for Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses‚ according to CNN polling. The former president demonstrated his grip on the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with a huge win in the contest on Monday. Those who ventured out in the bitter cold delivered a roughly 30-point win for Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis finished in a distant second place‚ just ahead of former U.N. Ambassador...

Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement‚ staffed his environmental agencies with fossil fuel lobbyists and claimed — against all scientific evidence — that the Earth’s rising temperatures will “ start getting cooler.” Expect a second Trump presidency to show less restraint. Trump’s campaign utterances‚ and the policy proposals being drafted by hundreds of his supporters‚ point to the likelihood that his return to the White House would bring an...

I assume that the voters who are choosing Donald Trump again have their reasons. They believe he’s the strongest candidate‚ perhaps because he’s the largest personality. They want him because they liked the way he drove the opposition nuts. They want him for reasons of revenge because they feel that they were robbed of having “the full Trump” the first time because of Russiagate. And some want him because he’s more than a Republican: he’s against the Left‚ and in some crucial ways‚ he’s also...

Musk said late Monday in a post on X that he wants enough control at Tesla to be influential‚ but not so much that he couldn’t be overruled. “Unless that is the case‚ I would prefer to build [AI] products outside of Tesla‚” Musk wrote on the social-media platform. The billionaire currently controls about 13% of Tesla‚ according to FactSet‚ having previously sold some of his holding in the company to fund his purchase of what was then called Twitter.  Tesla shares...

Bill Clinton once explained the nation’s two political parties by saying that Democrats want to fall in love while Republicans want to fall in line. That adage has not withstood the Trump era. Today‚ it is Republicans who are besotted. Donald J. Trump’s decisive victory in Iowa revealed a new depth to the reservoir of devotion inside his party. For eight years‚ he has nurtured a relationship with his supporters with little precedent in politics. He validates them‚ he entertains them‚ he...

"I don't care if you don't love me‚ I will lie down in the road‚ pull my heart out and show it to you." The post Amy Winehouse’s favourite lyric of all time first appeared on Far Out Magazine.