February 14, 2026 at 2:20 PM EST
Homeowners 'headed for trouble' as mortgage delinquency creeps up

Washington Post financial advice columnist Michelle Singletary said echoes of the Republican-era 2008 housing crisis are creeping back into a new presidential administration. "This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble," Singletary told the Post.

February 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM EST
Trump's 'stupid' obsession with manufacturing makes no sense: report

Guardian writer Eduardo Porter reports President Donald Trump's purported dedication to U.S. manufacturing is a pointless delusion. "There is an undeniable appeal to the hard hat and the grease-stained overalls; to the sweat on the brow of hard men in vintage posters; to the virtue of a hard day's labor on the production line. But the American political class would do well to overcome its nostalgia for the past and forget about promises to make manufacturing great again," said Porter.

February 14, 2026 at 1:34 PM EST
Trump's ignites an 'incompetence-corruption singularity': NYT editorial

A New York Times panel reports that President Donald Trump's unique fondness for yes-men making him a kind of Geiger counter for identifying miscreants. "You know, one of the things I think the second Trump term is showing is that Trump is performing a function of 'the great illuminator' of the true core of people," said Times Columnist David French. French cited as example U.S. AG Pam Bondi's recent attempt to dodge lawmakers' questions about why she halted a federal investigation into associates of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

February 14, 2026 at 11:28 AM EST
Trump's 'strategic breakthrough' with China smells like 'collapse: analysis

"War Room" co-host Natalie Winters noticed national headlines were eager to tout China's decision to reduce its painful embargo against U.S. soybean farmers as a kind of "win." But this was no win. "Soybeans are a solid proxy for how the United States deals with China: small, transactional, immediately legible 'wins' pitched as strategic breakthroughs. A shipment resumes, a statistic ticks up, a headline declares progress. Meanwhile, Beijing quietly continues accumulating long-term advantages," Winters writes in The American Conservative, adding that "Even after this supposed thaw, U.S. soybean exports to China remain down roughly 99 percent from historical levels. Despite all the hype, China is on track to register its lowest share of U.S. soybean exports since 2002."

February 14, 2026 at 11:16 AM EST
The only consistent message from Donald Trump

We've now entered another partial government shutdown - this one affecting Homeland Security services only because stubbornness over Donald Trump's insistence of shielding ICE and border police tactics. But, we are told, it won't affect the deportations because DHS already got so much money for its enforcement activity. Instead, the Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA employees will be asked to work for no pay, even as Secretary Kristi Noem struggles to avoid blame by the public and even Trump for creating what feels a political problem.

February 14, 2026 at 11:04 AM EST
Regretful Trump voters say their lives are 'getting worse by the day'

Follow-up interviews with Trump supporters one year later reveal a souring on the administration's policies -- and not for just one reason. "Inflation, immigration, and Epstein are all in the mix, but there's a giant mosaic of disappointments," reports Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell, while reviewing voters comments in a Saturday podcast.

February 14, 2026 at 8:02 AM EST
'Big fat liar': MAGA throws fire at Trump official over Guthrie case

The right-wing manosphere and its conservative influencers have long served as the yapping chorus for the Trump administration -- so much so that President Donald Trump elevated two of it's more vocal members to positions in the FBI. But Salon reports former Fox News regular, grievance podcaster and now FBI head Kash Patel has been drawing rancor from the right-wing media ecosystem that once elevated him, "mocking his missteps and " openly calling him a liar."

February 14, 2026 at 7:38 AM EST
America's allies are taking strategic steps as a key partner goes rogue

Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, something Vladimir Putin's been dreaming about for decades: he's convincing our oldest and closest allies, countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, and with whom we share a democratic system of government, that the United States can't be trusted. For example, France's government just announced it's ripping U.S. videoconferencing platforms -- Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and others -- out of its government offices nationwide and replacing them with a new French-created system called "Visio."

February 14, 2026 at 6:00 AM EST
Trump deploys charade he learned from his devious mentor

Donald Trump hasn't forgotten about the Insurrection Act, and neither should you. In the face of plummeting poll numbers and public outcry over the deaths of Rene'e Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, Trump may appear to be retreating from his threats to deploy the military to Minneapolis and other blue state cities, but any retreat is likely to prove temporary and tactical rather than a reversal of policy. Throughout his career, Trump has been guided by the "lessons" he learned as a young real estate hustler from his odious one-time mentor and fixer Roy Cohn: Never retreat, apologize, or admit wrongdoing, and always remain on the offensive. In keeping with Cohn's teachings, Trump has made threats to invoke the Insurrection Act dating to June 2020, when he vowed to use it to quell mass demonstrations related to the murder of George Floyd. He was reportedly restrained at the time by former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and other "grown-ups" in his first administration.

February 14, 2026 at 5:42 AM EST
Another case of Trump officials lying about a shooting incident emerges

Two US immigration enforcement officers are now under federal investigation after it was revealed that they seem to have lied about the circumstances that led up to the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant last month. As reported by Politico on Friday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons acknowledged that two federal officers appear "to have made untruthful statements" about a confrontation in Minneapolis in January that culminated in one of the officers shooting Venezuelan national Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg.

February 14, 2026 at 5:33 AM EST
Trump's false claims are a smokescreen for something far more underhanded

On Tuesday, Larry Kudlow, the Fox personality and former Trump advisor, was on the TV. You will be shocked to learn he lied.

February 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM EST
Massie says Republicans who downplay Epstein files should be 'purged from our party'

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appeared to take several jabs at Republican Party leaders in a recent interview about the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents. In a Friday interview with Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie, Massie argued that most of his party was falling short in calling for transparency of Epstein's crimes and accountability for his victims. The Kentucky Republican didn't name names, but suggested elected officials vying to lead the party in the future would be viewed as cowards for their failure to lead on the Epstein issue.