President Donald Trump has put the US economy through the wringer.  Since taking office, he has: And yet, the American economy keeps trudging forward like a gut-shot zombie, damaged but undeterred by the bullets it has absorbed. US GDP rose at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026 and a 2.1 […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration wants federal employees to sign broad new non-disclosure agreements.  Why do this? President Donald Trump and members of his administration have long […]

Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led “government efficiency” project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump’s first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and then vanished almost as abruptly as it began? If you didn’t lose your job in one of Musk’s federal employee purges, or you aren’t one of […]

There’s an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how the Trump administration is approaching its ongoing peace talks with Iran.  Over the weekend, the news around the talks followed what […]

In case you didn’t notice, the Antichrist is back. All right, forgive the hyperbole — this biblical agent of Satan hasn’t actually returned to lead a rebellion against God before Christ’s second coming. But in the year of our Lord 2026, a curious surge in chatter about this herald of the apocalypse seems to be […]