Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Jonathan Bernstein

Semen allergies may be surprisingly common – here’s what you need to know

Imagine itching, burning, swelling, or even struggling to breathe just moments after sex. For a small but growing number of women, that’s not an awkward anecdote – it’s a medical condition. It’s called seminal plasma hypersensitivity (SPH) – an allergy to semen.

The Conversation

Jonathan Bernstein: What to make of Trump’s mad power grab plan

Donald Trump and his allies are pledging to remake the presidency if he is elected again, giving him and the office more authority than it has ever had and certainly far more than the framers of the US Constitution envisioned.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Kevin McCarthy appeases the radicals again

The House bill that sets Pentagon policies for the next year, which began as mundane and bipartisan, passed on Friday on a party-line vote. The bill received a 58-to-1 vote in committee, but radical Republicans offered dozens of amendments on such issues as abortion, book banning, bases named after Confederate…

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans help Biden by taking credit for his policy wins

Federal awards to states for expanding broadband access are out, and U.S. senators are rushing to brag about the money their states will receive, including those like Texas Republican John Cornyn and others who opposed the bipartisan infrastructure bill that contained the funding they’re now lauding.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Senators are undermining their own power

The slow decline of the United States Congress continues. The latest example is a practice that has helped individual senators wield disproportionate influence: the “hold.” Once a justifiable way for senators to bring attention to a problem or issue germane to their state, senators are increasingly using the hold as…

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Radical Republicans continue to hold the House hostage

House Freedom Caucus Republicans have temporarily halted their blockade of the House floor, ending for now a nearly weeklong shutdown of business in the chamber. The small group of rebels was pledging to block all significant legislation from passing until Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to their demands.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Wall Street should tell Kevin McCarthy to get back to business

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy went to New York on Monday to seek Wall Street’s support for his pursuit of a debt-ceiling deal tied to federal spending cuts. But financial industry pros know that attaching any strings to an increase in the borrowing limit is irresponsible. They should tell the speaker…

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Jonathan Bernstein: Trump isn’t Republicans’ only headache

Republicans have a big problem. No, not the guy who got indicted. At least not directly.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans could regret attacking Trump’s indictment

As soon as the indictment of Donald Trump was revealed Thursday, prominent Republicans lashed out against Alvin Bragg, accusing the Manhattan district attorney of bringing a groundless and politically motivated case against the former president.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Kevin McCarthy is propelling the US toward default

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sent a clear signal Tuesday: The chances of a debt limit breach and subsequent government default and economic calamity aren’t only very real, but fairly high. Probably higher than 50-50. Maybe a lot higher. And McCarthy has no idea how to get out of it.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Why Medicaid expansion will overcome Florida politics

North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature last week approved the expansion of Medicaid to more low-income adults, leaving only 10 states that continue to reject the federal government’s incentives under the Affordable Care Act. Medicaid expansion, aimed at adults who make too much money to qualify for conventional Medicaid but not enough…

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Wisconsin judicial election is bad for democracy

If you want a good summary of all that’s wrong with U.S. politics right now, you could do worse than “The most important U.S. election this year is the runoff for a seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court.”

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Blaming SVB on ‘woke’ banks masks Republican divide

Politicians generally don’t like looking silly. And yet a whole bunch of Republican politicians reacted to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank by raging about “woke” banking” in ways that made them appear ridiculous to anyone actually concerned about the danger to the banking system and the economy.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: A Trump indictment would put Republicans in a bind

It looks increasingly likely that former President Donald Trump will be indicted by Manhattan prosecutors over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Republican politicians and other party officials who have tried to avoid taking a position on Trump and the 2024 nomination — the keep-quiet Republicans —…

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: How Democrats are able to accomplish so much

One of the biggest political stories of 2022 was how the Republican Party fielded an unusually large number of weak candidates for Senate and gubernatorial primaries. Republicans’ failure to elevate candidates with wide appeal cost them dearly in the November midterms, when they bungled potentially winnable contests in Georgia, Pennsylvania…

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: How Trump could lose the primaries but win the nomination

Here’s another headache for Republicans who don’t want to see Donald Trump as their presidential nominee in 2024: There’s a mechanism that could allow him to get the party’s nomination even if he’s defeated in its primaries and caucuses.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: McCarthy’s leadership strategy shows no sign of working

The Republican majority in the House isn’t even two months old, but it’s already clear that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s attempt to mollify his party’s extremist faction risks hurting the country without guaranteeing the thing he wants most: to keep his job as House leader. There might not be immediate consequences…

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Ex-felons deserve the right to vote

Minnesota this month became the latest state to restore voting rights to ex-felons once they are released from prison. Democrats around the U.S. have been pushing to reduce or eliminate restrictions on voting, in particular fighting to extend voting rights to people on parole or probation. Many Republicans have been…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans are painting themselves into a corner over Ukraine

Extremist Republicans didn’t waste time bashing President Joe Biden’s surprise weekend visit to Kyiv. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia called the trip “incredibly insulting,” while Florida Republican Matt Gaetz tweeted that Biden was “ditching America for Ukraine.”

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans aren’t just thinking about Trump and DeSantis

The Republican presidential nomination is up for grabs.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Republican plans for oversight are plainly underdone

Republicans held their first hearing last week of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The session told us a lot about how little to expect from the Republican-led 118th Congress.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: This Trump campaign will be nothing like the last two

At first glance the Republican presidential campaign is shaping up to be bizarrely normal. In a deeper sense, however, it is profoundly bizarre. Of course the reason is former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: The document that separates Biden and Trump

One of the many problems with having former President Donald Trump around is that it becomes extremely difficult to assess normal misbehavior. It’s a significant reminder of how Trump continues to corrupt the nation’s politics.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Democrats show Republicans how lawmaking should be done

With the passage of a defense bill and an agreement on a spending package, the 117th Congress is wrapping up an extremely productive two years in office. This Congress, when Democrats held narrow margins in both houses, stands in sharp contrast to the last era of unified control of government,…

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Sinema misses the point about party politics

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema declared herself a Marxist on Friday. Not Karl; Groucho. As in, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” She felt compelled to leave the Democrats, she explained, because of the “broken partisan system” and said that she had “joined the…

1 2

People

Marjorie Taylor Greene

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Electoral College

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.