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Conservatives on social media are having a field day mocking the Democratic National Committee for featuring a handful of "beyond parody" moments during its leadership vote over the weekend, which critics say underscores that Democrats have "learned absolutely nothing" from their 2024 election losses. **SNIP** Conservatives and critics took to social media over the weekend to highlight what they viewed as the most out of touch speeches and comments from party leaders, including the election of left-wing activist David Hogg as one of its three co-chairs. Hogg is an outspoken gun control advocate and the co-founder of March for Our...

The media landscape continues to face severe challenges, exemplified by The Washington Post's decision to cut 10% of its staff, indicating a substantial financial loss exceeding $100 million this year. The broader trend is evident as over 25% of all U.S. newspapers (daily and weekly) folded in the past 15 years. Newspaper advertising revenue mirrored the decline, plummeting by 25% from 2019 to 2020. A noteworthy shift is the fact that 42 out of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers no longer publish on a daily basis. The decline is pervasive across legacy corporate news media, both digital and print, with...

Having done a world tour on his way into the White House, President Obama's now planning an even bigger global victory lap in his final year in office. Too bad that everything in-between is a heaping mound of hot foreign-policy mess. The president has reportedly ordered his staff to set a heavy international schedule for 2016. What, to celebrate the arrival of world peace? The White House, Politico reports, means the trips to cement a legacy of "Trans-Pacific Partnership, increased attention to Asia, an opening of Latin America, progress against the Islamic State and significant global movement on climate change."...

A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay. Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it. “As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League...

A SCHEME for France and Germany to present a common voice on the world stage hit turbulence yesterday before a meeting today of President Chirac of France and Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, to finalise plans for a grand relaunch of the Berlin-Paris alliance. Berlin’s senior official in charge of the Franco-German relationship said that talk about a new European foreign policy would be meaningless if France sided with the United States against Germany in a future United Nations Security Council vote on Iraq. Differences over Iraq, with Germany opposed to any military action and France open to a UN-approved...