Category: United States

China’s PISA Success—Less Than Meets the Eye

Commentary Following Chairman Mao’s lead, Chinese propaganda often referred to America as a Paper Tiger back in the day, implying a lack of substance behind a strong facade. Although the term hasn’t found much use recently, there’s no lack of apt applications vying for attention. One, ironically, concerns China’s position as the highest-scoring participant in…


Latest Revelations About Mar-a-Lago Raid Unlikely to Sway Midterm Voters, Strategists Say

News Analysis The fresh controversy stoked by ongoing revelations about the FBI’s raid of the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump, including the release on Sept. 2 of a detailed inventory of documents and items retrieved in the raid, is unlikely to have a significant effect on the outcome of the November midterm elections,…


Capitol Report (Sept. 1): Attorneys General Say DOJ and Big Tech Colluding; US Cracks Down on China

Today, a federal judge declined to rule on Trump’s request for a special master. An attorney tells NTD the Trump Team made a wrong move. A lawsuit uncovers emails between federal officials and big tech companies. It claims the emails show how the administration censors topics like COVID-19 and Hunter Biden. We talked to one…


Biden’s Student Loan Relief Will Lead to Severe Tax Hikes, More Inflation, Economists Say

News Analysis President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to eliminate $10,000 of federal student debt, and $20,000 for those borrowers who received federal Pell Grants, will worsen the government’s roughly $30 trillion deficit while giving the incumbent party a justification to raise taxes steeply in the near future, economists who study the issue have told The…


Canada Formally Initiates Challenge of ‘Unfair’ US Duties on Softwood Lumber

International Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is formally initiating a challenge of “unwarranted and unfair” US duties on Canadian softwood lumber. The Canadian government filed notice of the challenge today under the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement’s dispute resolution system. Ng says in a statement that the duties harm Canadian businesses and workers but also serve as…


South Korea Accuses United States of Discrimination Over Electric Vehicle Tax Credit, Considers Legal Action

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has been the law of the land for less than two weeks, but it’s already harming relations between the United States and its allies. On Aug. 10, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) sent a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative, stating that certain sections in the…


Ottawa Invokes 1977 Pipeline Treaty in Separate Line 5 Dispute, This One in Wisconsin

For the second time in a year, the federal government is invoking a little-known 1977 energy treaty between Canada and the United States to defend the Line 5 pipeline. This time, it’s in Wisconsin, where Line 5 skirts the southwestern shores of Lake Superior before crossing into Michigan. In both states, federal judges are hearing…


New Top Democrat on House Oversight Panel Likely From District Dominated by Federal Workers

Regardless of who controls the House of Representatives come January 2023, the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee may well come from a district whose voters are mostly federal workers and contractors. Two of the three Democrats who quickly threw their hats into the ring following Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s (D-N.Y.) loss…


US to Name Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic

The United States plans to name an ambassador at large for the Arctic, reflecting the region’s growing strategic and commercial importance as its shrinking opens up new sea lanes and vast oil and mineral resources. Russia has reopened hundreds of Soviet-era military sites in the region, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday, a…


US Seeks Approval of Plea Deal for Quebec Woman Accused of Trying to Poison Trump

United States prosecutors say they are seeking formal authorization to offer a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump. Prosecutor Michael Friedman told the United States District Court in Washington D.C. that a draft plea agreement had been discussed with Pascale Ferrier’s lawyers. He added that he…