Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. As with many other Obama-voting millennials, I never had much use for conservative media. My political coming-of-age coincided with a moment when information streams were already splintering into deeply partisan lanes, a process that became supercharged in the MAGA era. Ascendant irritants like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk determined that delicate liberals were not their target demographic and never made much of an effort to bring us into the...

Here at Tiana’s Take, we have repeatedly warned of the dire consequences of Congress failing to extend the individual tax provisions of President Donald Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which are set to expire at the end of the year. But there’s a major caveat, spurred by recent reports that the White House is considering raising taxes on high-earning Americans and corporations as part of the GOP’s 2025 tax legislation. So, you can trust that I don’t say the following lightly: An extension of the TCJA that raises...

New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli invested in Chinese companies, including an organization that owns U.S. farmland and companies with ties to the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a Fox News Digital review of financial disclosures found. New Jersey state Sens. Doug Steinhardt and Michael Testa sponsored a bill in 2023 that would restrict "all ownership of agricultural land in state by foreign governments and persons." Ciattarelli told New Jersey voters at a town hall on Thursday that he would sign the bill into law if...

The House Natural Resources Committee is planning to meet May 6 to consider its portion of the Republican party-line package to enact President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. That tentatively scheduled date, confirmed by a person granted anonymity because the markup has not yet been officially noticed, is consistent with the time frame several committees are targeting to hold their markups for parts of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy legislation.

“T of Tesla is brighter than ever.” So declared Elon Musk during an earnings call on April 22nd. According to the carmaker’s boss, Tesla remains on course to become the world’s most valuable firm, worth as much as the next five companies combined, as it churns out fleets of autonomous taxis and armies of humanoid robots.

Congressional Republicans have set conflicting goals that will make negotiating a budget reconciliation package for enacting President Trump’s agenda a difficult task. The House and Senate finally adopted a unified budget blueprint after two months of back and forth over how much spending and tax cuts to instruct their committees to find for the package. Now, Republicans are under pressure to negotiate more quickly through their differences as they decide what to include in the legislation committees plan to release in the coming weeks. Sweeping tax and spending cuts will...

Universal Health Services UHS 0.66 %increase; green up pointing triangle has a billionaire controlling shareholder and a lucrative Medicaid cash stream. That plays into the hands of congressional Republicans eyeing large budget cuts while looking to show they aren’t just targeting the poor.

The stakes, and downside risks, are enormous for UHS investors.

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Tennessee lawmakers are in a race against the clock to pass legislation that would allow public schools to deny enrollment to undocumented children, thrusting the state into the center of a national legal and political fight over immigration and education. The Republican-backed bill, which challenges the U.S. Supreme Court's 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision, has already cleared the state Senate and could reach the House floor within days.

This week, Silicon Valley heavyweights mingled with top Trump administration officials at a conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Miami. The event was hosted by the Rockbridge Network, a secretive yet increasingly powerful organization at the center of business, technology, and Republican politics. Those in attendance included venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya and Keith Rabois, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Several years ago, Louis Blessing’s wife asked for his help replacing the battery in her laptop. An electrical engineer by training, Blessing figured it would be a quick fix. But after swapping out the old battery for a new one and plugging the laptop in, he discovered it wouldn’t charge. It quickly dawned on Blessing that the laptop recognized he had installed a battery made by a third party, and rejected it. It’s a classic example of a practice known as parts pairing, where manufacturers use software to control how...