Alyssa Farah says she put Hutchinson in touch with Cheney
Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah said she put Cassidy Hutchinson, a personal friend and top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in touch with the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and encouraged her to testify. “A couple months ago, I put her in touch with Congresswoman Cheney,” Farah
Read MoreTwo local newspapers close every week in the US
Story at a glance Local newspapers are shutting down at an average rate of two per week throughout the United States, leaving large swaths of the country in news deserts. Previous research has shown that when local news shutters, participation in democracy declines, and local officials are free to operate without the press holding them accountable.
Read MoreThe woke crowd should wake up: Ours is a country to brag about
You’re always on shaky ground when you make generalizations, but that doesn’t mean the generalization isn’t true. In fact, very often it’s the opposite. That’s probably how it became a generalization in the first place. Here’s a generalization that a lot of conservatives believe is true: that while liberal elites may love some hypothetical, perfect version of America — one where there’s absolutely no racism, no discrimination of any kind, no bad cops, no pollution — they don’t love the America we currently inhabit. Or at least, they’re not proud of their country.
Read MoreYoung Americans are in for a rude awakening with the coming recession
Societal legends are born out of challenging times. The Great Recession bore out not only the difficulties of American capitalism, but provided a myth among millennials of living through uniquely bad times. The current crop of young adults has known the comfort and ease their parents’ work afforded them. A serious recession is something for which most in that age cohort have done little planning. The unsustainability of work-from-home, low output, and overpaid jobs, massive student loan debts accumulated for prestige, and the effects of the pandemic will come to bear soon. For many young pe
Read MoreConsumer spending fell in May as food, fuel prices stoked inflation
Consumer spending dropped in May as food and fuel prices rose sharply, according to data released Thursday by the Commerce Department. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE), a measure of consumer spending, rose 0.2 percent in May but fell 0.4 percent when adjusted for inflation. While personal incomes rose 0.5 percent in May, they fell 0.1 percent after adjusting for inflation. The decline in consumer spending came as prices rose 0.6 percent overall in May, according to the Commerce Department’s PCE price index, a gauge of inflation. Without food and fuel prices, the P
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