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President Trump will fly to Beijing on May 14, and when he sits down across the table from Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist leader will almost certainly reach for the same card he has played against every American administration for a decade...
The "doves" on the right have spent weeks being derided as “panicans.” But their warnings: that another Middle East war would spook voters, push up prices, and hand Democrats a line of attack before the midterms have all come to pass. The polling underscores how they weren't imagining it. But the real panicans are not the anti-war voices. The real panicans are the corporate suits who see a crisis, grab a mic, and start leveraging the war for their own greed.
Today's The National Pulse will be a little different. In fact, it will be a little different for at least the next week, as we adjust to staffing changes and, frankly, changes in reader demand.
Our previous arguments against Netflix as the right fit for a Warner Bros. acquisition now look even stronger. Netflix never needed Warner’s library to compete. It needed the…
A long list of names has emerged to replace outgoing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was dismissed by President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday. The National Pulse has compiled a list of individuals who have been speculated about or promoted by Trumpworld insiders. President Trump's core requirements are likely to include who can advance his political agenda, and who can be confirmed by an increasingly precarious Republican Senate majority.
A near record number of Republican lawmakers in the modern political era are retiring from Congress ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. As of the end of March, seven Republicans have announced they will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate, while 35 Republicans are forgoing reelection to the House of Representatives.
Most people aren't spending their afternoons thinking about the availability of things like kratom, or about 7OH, the kratom compound now sitting squarely in lawmakers' sights, which is…
PULSE POINTS ❓WHAT HAPPENED: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has indicated he would consider withdrawing from the Texas primary run-off for Senator John Cornyn's seat, but only if…
A readers' survey conducted by The National Pulse has shown that the mostly MAGA-leaning readership rated President Trump's first year in office at an average of 8.3/10. The…
One hundred and ten years ago, on May 9th, 1916, The Gazette Times of Pittsburgh printed a special telegram from Washington, D.C. entitled 'Nitrate Plant Wins in House…
For months, the assumption in both political and media circles was that the Netflix-Warner Bros-Paramount throuple's argument would end in a bidding war. Paramount made an offer for…
On the night of Thursday, February 5, President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a video about election fraud that included a two-second splice featuring Barack and Michelle Obama,…
With TrumpRx launching this week, immediately bringing down the costs of America's new favorite medication, GLP-1, the knock-off merchants are surely panicking. Hims and Hers will spend millions…
The pay-television industry’s newest ally in a fight over media ownership is a virulently anti-Trump, illegal migrant advocacy group. Mi Familia Vota is currently airing an attack ad targeting…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the stupid part out loud, recently opining on how the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) state-sponsored digital yuan will soon be paying out "interest."…
Housing affordability is one of the defining issues in American life. President Trump waxed lyrical about it from the stage at Davos this week, decrying major corporations for…
Ukraine's long-standing reputation as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe has only gotten worse under President Volodymyr Zelensky, especially during the war with Russia. Very recently,…
President Ronald Reagan’s name has been taken in vain a lot lately by conservatives eager to use his sainted persona to bash President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC).…
Nigel Farage's Reform Party has landed its most significant defection to date: former Conservative Party MP and Shadow Cabinet Minister Robert Jenrick. If you're a Farage fan, you…
For years, the kratom industry in America has presented itself as a loose coalition of small businesses, consumer advocates, and scientists working toward responsible regulation and harm reduction.…
PULSE POINTS ❓WHAT HAPPENED: Vehicle attacks against DHS law enforcement have more than doubled this year, with nearly 100 incidents reported so far. 👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Immigration and…
President Trump has never been subtle about power. He’s seen its abuses weaponized against the American people and himself. He knows who pays the price when it’s left…
As you know, I've had it up to here *gestures quite high indeed* with 'Conservative, Inc.' Twas ever thus, perhaps. But at the same time, never more so…
The Tenth Day of Christmas (January 3) honored the Holy Name of Jesus. Notably, the name was not chosen by the Virgin Mary or St. Joseph but revealed…