The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it had approved the merger of local television giants Nexstar Media Group and rival Tegna, the same day that two lawsuits trying to block the deal were announced.
The British state somehow aims to raise more tax by preventing taxpayers from paying their tax. The post The UK Treasury’s Big New Idea: A Tax On Paying Taxes appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The UK Treasury’s Big New Idea: A Tax On Paying Taxes The British state somehow aims to raise more tax by preventing taxpayers from paying their tax. TakiMag The acerbic American novelist Lionel Shriver, who lived in the UK for over 30 years, recently moved to sunny Portugal to live there instead. For the sand and the sea? No, because she was sick of wasting her entire life filling out endless stupid forms. Writing in the Spectator , Shriver revealed a multitude of reasons for her emigrating from a nation clearly in terminal decline, but the final “straw that broke the camel’s British residency” was something…Open
The British government is wistfully hoping to relitigate Brexit, but it won’t work. The post Labour’s Doomed Pivot Toward Europe appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Labour’s Doomed Pivot Toward Europe The British government is wistfully hoping to relitigate Brexit, but it won’t work. UK Special Coverage When the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves was asked by the Times last week to choose between Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, she replied without a moment’s hesitation: “Ursula von der Leyen.” “I believe that our future is closely intertwined with Europe,” she added. Take that, MAGA man. You might have expected Reeves to have given a rather more diplomatic answer, given that the American…Open
Who now would negotiate away a nuclear weapons program? The post Thanks to the Iran Hawks, Nuclear Nonproliferation Is Dead appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Thanks to the Iran Hawks, Nuclear Nonproliferation Is Dead Who now would negotiate away a nuclear weapons program? The Iran hawks got the war they’d been seeking for the past decade or more—and they managed to kill off not just nuclear nonproliferation, but the concept of nuclear negotiations altogether. Every regime around the world remotely hostile to superpower interests will have to consider investing in nuclear weapons, as those have proven to be the only way to ensure any given regime’s survival. Given what just happened in Iran, the concept of negotiating that away has been torched, not unlike Golestan…Open
During her first visit to the White House, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew praise from President Trump. But the war in the Middle East will test their relationship.
Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker visited a major film studio Thursday in Chicago to discuss the growth of Illinois’ film industry, joined by leaders and lawmakers.
Democrats in Congress are already pledging to reject the Trump administration's forthcoming request for $200 billion to help finance U.S. military operations in Iran.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday more oil could be released from the nation’s stockpiles than the 172 million barrels announced last week and that other market-based measures could soon add additional supplies to global energy markets.