2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (670+ words) Will the Federal Communications Commission ever actually punish Disney or CBS for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s belief that those networks are in violation of the agency’s “equal time” rule? We may never know the answer to that question, and that…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (342+ words) The president framed this extraordinary offer as a result of unprecedented “tremendous economic success.” “In history we’ve never had anything like what’s happening,” Trump said. In keeping with the effort to paint his policies as actually good for the economy,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (527+ words) President Trump has made it impossible for Republicans to seize on a relatively easy, bipartisan issue that could help them win over voters in the midterms if they spoke about it in the right way. As he espouses bombastic rhetoric…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (957+ words) Talking Points Memo Is the Data Center Backlash Just NIMBY Run Amok? In response to my post about this data center backlash outside of Kansas City (specifically Independence, Missouri), I’ve been fielding the range of ideas people have about hyperscale…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (136+ words) talkingpointsmemo.com Local Pol Bounced Hard Over Data Center Tonight in Independence, Missouri, hometown of Harry Truman, city councilman John Perkins got absolutely rocked, losing a recall election with 68% voting to end his term immediately over his vote for a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (631+ words) President Trump is leading his administration full steam ahead in supporting his friends in the tech industry as he bulldozes his way through an issue that could’ve been a relatively easy bipartisan win for him and Republicans ahead of the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (197+ words) Talking Points Memo Trump’s Idiotic Trade War Is a Bigger Political Opening Than You Think As a general matter, people who write about or strategize about politics greatly overestimate our collective ability to shape how an election will play out,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (903+ words) On Monday afternoon, Craig Moss was testing out a new silage chopper. The machine can dice up an entire green corn plant into half-inch chunks before the milky pieces are packed tight into what Moss calls “big concrete bunkers” where…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (210+ words) Talking Points Memo Trump’s Wars of Whim, And How He Loses Them There’s been a blizzard of commentary about the breakdown of U.S.-Canadian trade talks. Friend of TPM Paul Krugman has a good rundown of just how dependent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (666+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Saturday’s extraordinary speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was ostensibly about the collapse of U.S. trade talks, but it was really about…...