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By James J. Devine Let us begin with a thought experiment. Suppose you were a Republican strategist — a real one, not the kind who appears on cable news in a fleece vest to explain why losing is actually winning — and you were tasked with designing the ideal 2028 presidential candidate from scratch. YouContinue reading “A modest proposal for a party that has lost its mind: Nominate a sane Republican”

by Kevin Hardy, New Jersey Monitor As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance.  The researchers conducted a review of studies on work requirements and concluded that “the best evidence shows they doContinue reading “SNAP work requirements don’t boost jobs and drop participation, research finds”

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor NJ Transit on Monday received the first of 374 new railcars intended over the next five years to replace an aging fleet that has become one of the main drivers of the agency’s train delays and cancellations. The two new railcars are set to undergo testing and could come into serviceContinue reading “First of NJ Transit’s new railcars reach New Jersey”

WELL, THERE IT IS. A federal judge has taken the broom to another one of the president’s legal dustups, sweeping it clean out the door. Judge Darrin Gayles down in Florida, a man who appears to know a tall tale when he sees one, looked at Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The WallContinue reading “Trump’s lawsuit dismissed against the Wall Street Journal, Epstein files remain buried”

Pope Leo XIV has condemned President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy “a whole civilization” in Iran. The pope called it “truly unacceptable” and a moral question, not just a matter of international law. The Christian leader was responding after Trump launched an unprovoked war with Iran and then issued an ultimatum demanding the reopening ofContinue reading “Pope Leo XIV sending President Donald Trump to Hell”

The arena shook with the thud of bone on bone, and the heavy bass of walkout music, as President Donald Trump, descending into the cage-side seats at UFC 327, expected adoration. He got a shower of boos instead. the roar of 20,000 blood-hungry fans, . It was Saturday night. The cameras caught him smirking, perhapsContinue reading “Vice President JD Vance fails to end war between the United States and Iran”

She stood at the same podium where her husband had announced the opening salvos of a new war just days earlier. The backdrop was the same. The flags were the same. But the message was something else entirely. First lady Melania Trump walked into the White House briefing room on April 9, 2026, unannounced, unscheduled,Continue reading “Melania Trump’s White House speech revived the scandal her husband tried to bury”

by Ashley Murray, New Jersey Monitor Spikes in energy prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran drove up inflation for Americans in March, according to the latest consumer price index figures released Friday. Costs jumped 0.9% in March compared to the previous month — that’s up from the 0.3% increase in February.  Prices for allContinue reading “Gas prices soar by 21% as government inflation figures reflect Trump’s war on Iran”

The man who controls the most powerful military on earth spent Easter Sunday posting a profane threat of mass annihilation on social media. The next day, at the White House Easter Egg Roll, he described bombing runs and hostage rescues to an audience of small children, then struggled visibly with the physical demands of theContinue reading “House Judiciary Committee Democrat demands cognitive exam of Donald Trump”

The People Have Had Enough A new poll tells us that fifty-two percent of American voters—a majority, mind you, not a plurality or a rounding error—support impeaching President Donald Trump just fourteen months into his term. That is not the slow burn of a man who has gradually disappointed his constituents. That is the speedContinue reading “Before he jacked up inflation & lost a war, most Americans wanted to impeach Trump”

The President of the United States stood before cameras in the White House briefing room on a Tuesday evening in April and declared total and complete victory. He lied. President Donald ‘TACO’ Trump said Iran had been defeated. He said its nuclear ambitions were finished. He said the United States had won a war thatContinue reading “Trump pays $2 billion tribute to Iran & calls surrender ‘victory’”

First Lady Melania Trump issued a rare public statement from the White House denying any personal connection to the late convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The President’s wife also called on Congress to provide a public hearing for Epstein’s survivors to testify under oath. The First Lady didn’t addressContinue reading “First Lady Melania Trump denies link to Jeffrey Epstein”

For decades, autism diagnosis has relied on a deceptively simple premise: watch a child, ask a parent, and make a judgment. The same basic approach used in 1943, when Leo Kanner first described the children in his clinic, remains the standard today. James McPartland, PhD, wants to change that. In a fluorescent-lit laboratory at theContinue reading “Yale team is hunting for biological markers that can reveal an autism diagnosis”

The next time you push a cart through the fluorescent hum of the supermarket, past the pyramids of oranges and the shrink-wrapped meat, take a good, hard look. What you are seeing is an illusion of permanence. The global food system, that vast and seemingly indomitable machine that delivers dinner to eight billion people, isContinue reading “Grocery bills about to explode: Food prices to soar 20% as global famine looms”

You can smell the smoke from the Capitol rotunda these days, or maybe it’s just the smell of a good argument being quietly strangled. Over in one corner stood President Donald Trump’s favorite Democratic congressman, New Jersey’s bloodthirsty multi-millionaire Josh Gottheimer. Over in the other, a writer from the Bulwark named Tim Miller, a manContinue reading “New Jersey’s bloodthirsty Democratic congressman defended President Donald Trump’s war with Iran”

Just ninety minutes before the bombs were set to fall, the whole thing got called off. That is the simple fact of the matter, and you can take it or leave it, but it happens to be true. The president had given the Iranians until eight o’clock Monday night to open the Strait of HormuzContinue reading “Trump and Iran agree to two-week ceasefire deal”

The “ceasefire” was supposed to be the moment the world exhaled. Twenty points of a Trump peace plan, signed and sealed last October, promising an end to the nightmare. Six months later, exhale if you can. The air over Gaza is thick with smoke, flies, and the stench of broken promises. Nobody’s paying attention anymoreContinue reading “Trump’s Gaza peace plan is failing as Palestinian genocide slows, not stops”

The Army Recreation Machine Program operates more than 1,800 slot machines at 79 overseas military locations, including bases in Japan and Germany, generating tens of millions of dollars each year to fund gyms, libraries, and family support services for service members. Managed by the U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM G-9), the program generated $91Continue reading “Slot machines on overseas bases rob $91 million annually from Army troops”