It’s been nearly six years since the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread into the United States, ushering in the pandemic that would come to define the first quarter of this decade.

Considering how recently it occurred and how much it affected every facet of American life, it is somewhat remarkable how absent the pandemic and the government’s response are from today’s news cycle, the daily political fights online and in the media, or in popular culture and fiction.

The rollback of U.S. meddling in “promoting democracy” is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Column by James Bovard.

The obsession with measuring aggregate GDP obscures how the real standard of living for many people has declined. 

The CIA’s efforts to foment a coup have already failed once. Will Trump try it again? 

More inflation coming: the Fed will lower its key interest rate by 25 basis points next week and again in December, according to a Reuters poll.

Ridiculously, Treasury Sec Bessent said in a television interview earlier this month that the peso was “undervalued” and he intended to “buy low and sell high.”

Financial news is a constant drumbeat of AI this and AI that. But, during the week of October 10, the price of gold  grabbed headlines pushing above $4,000 and silver’s week was eventful as well.

“What do you expect when you sue the president?” Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump’s political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution. That quote, though, is much older. It is from an IRS agent addressing officials of a conservative organization that was being audited during Bill Clinton’s presidency. This illustrates that the use of federal agencies to punish presidents’ enemies did not start with President Trump.

Since the Cuban Revolution prevailed in 1959, the American government has employed a wide variety of tactics in an effort to destabilize and destroy Cuba’s socialist regime.