Former first lady Melania Trump is drawing heat from pro-life advocates over an excerpt in her memoir where she suggests a woman’s right to choose an abortion is a ‘fundamental right of individual liberty,’ according to a report Wednesday. Melania Trump wife of Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump, wrote the memoir entitled ‘Melania’ that is scheduled to come ...
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff denied the veracity of a Daily Mail report in which three unnamed sources accused him of having slapped a former girlfriend during a 2012 trip to the Cannes Film Festival. Fox News Digital has not been able to independently confirm the allegations. ‘This report is untrue,’ an unnamed representative for Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband told ...
James A. Dorn In her recent article in Business Insider, Linette Lopez, a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, argues that China’s latest efforts to spur the economy are too little, too late. She holds that Xi Jinping is opposed to massive stimulus programs that would directly stimulate consumption by sending checks to households because “the Chinese president ...
Jennifer J. Schulp and Jack Solowey What do Yankees tickets and Pokémon cards have in common? If you guessed wish list items for elementary school kids, you wouldn’t be wrong. But another thing they share is that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler has been asked to opine on whether they are securities during congressional testimony. To most ...
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff issued a letter to major social media executives this week demanding they reveal how they will combat ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ in the 2024 election. The letter, co-signed by seven other members of Congress, accuses social media platforms such as X, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok of failing to properly prepare for malicious info-hazards in November. ‘We write ...
Michael F. Cannon President Joe Biden has touted how the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) gives Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. He has boasted that this new authority will save $6 billion in its first year. As I explained at the policy forum, “At What Price: Determining Pharmaceutical Prices in Medicare,” however, the IRA contains other provisions that ...
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner There were multiple developments in US security assistance to Taiwan in September 2024, but the size of the arms sale backlog did not change from the previous month. The topline figure for the Taiwan arms sale backlog remains $20.5 billion. New information that came to light in September about several of the largest arms sale ...
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Trade Balance and Winning at Trade,” by Andreas Freytag and Phil Levy, explains that the trade balance is a particularly bad measure of national well-being. “The Globalization of Popular Music,” by Clark Packard, traces how popular music became globalized, with particular attention paid to the Beatles. ...
The debate between the candidates for vice president — GOP nominee Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — was dominated by Vance, and all but a handful of hardened partisan pundits agree on that conclusion. Walz wobbled and panicked from the first question — which everyone in the world knew would be about Iran’s ballistic missile attack ...
Kayla Susalla During the October 1 vice-presidential debate, when asked about holding parents accountable for mass shootings in schools, Sen. JD Vance (R‑OH) responded, in part: I don’t want my kids to go to school and a school that feels unsafe or where there are visible signs of security. But I unfortunately think that we have to increase security in ...