Compound Observer

Rise in Shootings Continues in Chicago, NYC, Other Cities

Published 2020-08-17 12:11:24 UTC

Pelosi Calls House Lawmakers Back from Recess for Postal Service Vote

Published 2020-08-17 12:33:15 UTC

New Zealand Delays Election by a Month Following New Coronavirus Outbreak

Published 2020-08-17 12:41:19 UTC

Japan’s Economy Shrinks at a Record 7.8 Percent

Published 2020-08-17 13:18:20 UTC

Iran Paid Bounties to Taliban-Linked Terrorist Group after Attack on U.S. Base in Afghanistan: Report

Published 2020-08-17 13:27:33 UTC

Dear Biden Supporters: We Can Read, You Know

Published 2020-08-17 17:00:46 UTC

Of Course Kamala Harris Supports Gun Confiscation

Published 2020-08-17 17:13:56 UTC

Black Lives Matter, Antifa Crowd Beat Man Unconscious in Portland

Published 2020-08-17 17:56:56 UTC

The Capital Note: The Taxman Cometh

Published 2020-08-17 18:14:29 UTC

Special Prosecutor Finds ‘Abuses of Discretion’ but No Criminal Wrongdoing by Chicago Prosecutors in Jussie Smollett Case

Published 2020-08-17 21:24:38 UTC

No, the Postal Service Isn’t Stealing the Election

Published 2020-08-17 23:03:49 UTC

Cuomo Turns Convention Speech Into Extended Metaphor Comparing Trump to COVID

Published 2020-08-18 03:04:50 UTC

‘Authoritarianism Has Taken Root’: Sanders Slams Trump for Using Troops against ‘Peaceful Protesters’

Published 2020-08-18 03:24:51 UTC

Bulverism at The Bulwark

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:56 UTC

An Ode to Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:48 UTC

Falklands or Malvinas?

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:30 UTC

After V-J Day, Americans Wanted to Withdraw from the World Stage

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:27 UTC

Kamala’s Amnesty

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:25 UTC

The Trump-Administration Reforms Obama’s Misguided Methane-Emissions Rule

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:21 UTC

The EU’s Slow, Sneaky Attempt to Engineer a Fiscal Union

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:20 UTC

Trump’s Unfounded USPS Comments Lead to Wild Conspiracy Theorizing

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:15 UTC

Ten 2020 Issues, Policies, Personalities — and Chance

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:14 UTC

Clinesmith, the Russia Lie, and the Deep State

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:11 UTC

Losing the Senate Would Be a Catastrophe

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:11 UTC

Pro-Life Democrats Ask the DNC to Moderate on Abortion

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:02 UTC

When School Busing Worked

Published 2020-08-18 10:30:00 UTC

Federal Court Blocks Trump Admin. from Rolling Back Transgender Healthcare Protections

Published 2020-08-18 12:17:22 UTC

‘Backstabber’: Chris Christie Dismisses Kasich’s Biden Endorsement as Meaningless

Published 2020-08-18 12:39:11 UTC

Chicago Police Are Retiring at ‘Unheard of’ Rate

Published 2020-08-18 13:39:51 UTC

De Blasio’s Wife Employs Six Undisclosed Taxpayer-Funded Staffers: Report

Published 2020-08-18 14:19:38 UTC

New York Gov. Cuomo to Release Book About COVID-19 Response in October

Published 2020-08-18 14:39:55 UTC

Strengthen America by Strengthening Families

Published 2020-08-18 15:07:21 UTC

Twitter Apologizes For Mistakenly Suspending the Babylon Bee’s Account

Published 2020-08-18 15:44:01 UTC

Senate Intel Committee Concludes Russia Took Advantage of ‘Inexperienced’ Trump Team, FBI Gave Steele Dossier Too Much ‘Credence’

Published 2020-08-18 16:35:52 UTC

Trump Posthumously Pardons Susan B. Anthony

Published 2020-08-18 17:49:11 UTC

China Looks to Leverage Coronavirus Vaccine Access to Secure Strategic Concessions from Other Nations

Published 2020-08-18 18:04:04 UTC

Postmaster General to Suspend Reforms Until after Election

Published 2020-08-18 18:26:12 UTC

N.Y. Dem Rep.’s Push to Eliminate Qualified Immunity Would Financially Benefit His Family and Major Donors

Published 2020-08-18 18:20:55 UTC

Democrats Play Hide the Agenda as Their Convention Kicks Off

Published 2020-08-18 18:33:13 UTC

The Capital Note: Lockdowns & Lumber

Published 2020-08-18 18:57:27 UTC

Queen Kamala’s Imperial Aspirations

Published 2020-08-18 19:05:25 UTC

On the First Night of the DNC, the Biden Focus Is Clear — but What Comes Next for Democrats?

Published 2020-08-18 19:39:25 UTC

On the Ground at the DNC

Published 2020-08-18 21:25:07 UTC

Will Clinesmith Plead Guilty?

Published 2020-08-18 21:24:58 UTC

Schumer Tells Americans ‘Trump Has Quit on You’ in DNC Convention Speech

Published 2020-08-19 02:36:54 UTC

DNC Brings Back Women’s March Leaders Ousted over Anti-Semitism Allegations

Published 2020-08-19 02:40:28 UTC

AOC Symbolically Nominates Bernie Sanders, Decries ‘Colonization, Misogyny’ in Convention Speech

Published 2020-08-19 02:57:57 UTC

Portland Police Identify Alleged Attacker Who Beat Truck Driver Unconscious

Published 2020-08-19 03:04:51 UTC

We Need Better Risk Communication to Combat the Coronavirus

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:58 UTC

401(k) Plans Finally Can Invest in Private Equity, Leveling the Playing Field

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:53 UTC

Pint-Sized Hurt Pimps Win One at the Getty

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:53 UTC

An Important Step in the Fight to Ban Chinese Confucius Institutes

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:52 UTC

App Shrugged: Will Uber Go Galt in California?

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:48 UTC

How to End the Pandemic

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:20 UTC

What the Beatles’ ‘Revolution’ Means 50 Years Later

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:13 UTC

The U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Sidesteps Abortion

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:06 UTC

The Pointlessness of Anti-Romney Republicanism

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:06 UTC

Stand with Belarus

Published 2020-08-19 10:30:03 UTC

American Universities Will Use Code Names to Protect Chinese Students from Beijing’s New National Security Law

Published 2020-08-19 12:09:09 UTC

S&P 500 Closes at Record High, Rebounding From Pandemic Losses

Published 2020-08-19 12:32:22 UTC

Internet Provocateur Laura Loomer Wins Florida GOP Primary

Published 2020-08-19 12:54:42 UTC

Obama Campaign Manager Claims a Second Trump Term ‘Will Be Moscow’s for the Taking’; MSNBC Host Suggests ‘We’ll All Be Speaking Russian’

Published 2020-08-19 13:18:22 UTC

Bill Clinton Chastises Trump for Misbehaving in the Oval Office

Published 2020-08-19 13:39:09 UTC

‘She Has No Role’: Biden Condemns Ousted Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour after Her DNC Appearance

Published 2020-08-19 14:00:06 UTC

Texas Governor Proposes Legislation That Would Bar Cities That Defund Police from Hiking Property Taxes

Published 2020-08-19 14:51:31 UTC

Twitter Says Viral Mailbox Misinformation Does Not Violate Company’s Policies

Published 2020-08-19 15:30:57 UTC

NYC Records Lowest COVID Test Positivity Rate Since March, De Blasio Aims to Reopen Schools

Published 2020-08-19 17:07:08 UTC

Ex-FBI Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Durham Probe of Russia Investigation

Published 2020-08-19 18:14:33 UTC

History Keeps Proving John Kerry Wrong

Published 2020-08-19 18:30:42 UTC

The Capital Note: SEC, USO, SRI, etc.

Published 2020-08-19 19:21:52 UTC

On the Ground at Trump’s Wisconsin Rally

Published 2020-08-19 20:16:19 UTC

NYC Teachers’ Union Threatens Strike Unless ‘Every Single Person’ Who Enters a School Receives COVID Test

Published 2020-08-19 20:23:13 UTC

Pelosi Accuses Trump, McConnell of ‘Standing in the Way,’ Vows to Flip House and Senate in Convention Speech

Published 2020-08-20 03:02:43 UTC

Hillary Clinton Implies ‘Foreign Adversary’ Could Help Trump Steal Election

Published 2020-08-20 02:36:44 UTC

Obama Warns Republicans Will Use Voters’ ‘Cynicism’ to ‘Take Away Your Democracy’

Published 2020-08-20 03:23:57 UTC

How Donald Trump Made Laura Loomer’s Primary Win Possible

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:58 UTC

In praise of traditional conventions, &c.

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:33 UTC

The Hard Truth about Remote Learning This Fall

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:27 UTC

Deregulate the Suburbs

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:22 UTC

Scrap the Gap-Year Plans

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:12 UTC

Why California’s Latest ‘Soak the Rich’ Tax Proposals Are Likely to Backfire

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:08 UTC

What the Snapback Debate Says about the Iran Deal

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:08 UTC

Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Hospitalized in Suspected Poisoning

Published 2020-08-20 12:06:10 UTC

Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Trump’s Pardon

Published 2020-08-20 12:14:27 UTC

Ben Sasse Says Trump’s QAnon Remarks Will Be to Blame if Dems Retake Senate

Published 2020-08-20 12:50:39 UTC

1.1 Million File Jobless Claims, Labor Market Remains Unstable Amid Pandemic

Published 2020-08-20 13:07:12 UTC

U.S. and China to Hold Trade Talks, Chinese Commerce Ministry Says

Published 2020-08-20 13:18:58 UTC

Stephen Bannon Arrested, Charged with Fraud by NY Prosecutor

Published 2020-08-20 14:00:22 UTC

Judge Rules Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns to Manhattan DA

Published 2020-08-20 15:48:47 UTC

‘Public Servants Show Up And Serve People’: De Blasio Insists on Reopening NYC Schools Amid Low Infection Rate

Published 2020-08-20 16:58:10 UTC

Goodbye — Sort of — to Germany?

Published 2020-08-20 10:30:49 UTC

The Capital Note: Coronavirus Winners & Losers

Published 2020-08-20 19:11:26 UTC

The Effects of Hong Kong’s National-Security Law Are Already Clear

Published 2020-08-20 20:12:40 UTC

The Bannon Indictment

Published 2020-08-20 20:50:22 UTC

Catholic Nun Who Addressed DNC Convention Declined to Take Position On Abortion: ‘I Would Have to Study It More Intensely’

Published 2020-08-21 02:24:17 UTC

‘I Get It’: Andrew Yang Sympathizes With Trump Voters during Convention Speech

Published 2020-08-21 02:39:19 UTC

‘Coward in Chief’: Tammy Duckworth Accuses Trump of Being Easily Manipulated by ‘Tyrants’

Published 2020-08-21 02:52:34 UTC

‘He’s Failed to Protect Us’: Biden Attacks Trump’s COVID Response in Speech Accepting Dem Nomination

Published 2020-08-21 03:59:41 UTC

A Pro-Gay President Is Not Enough

Published 2020-08-21 10:30:53 UTC

Five Questions for Ed Conard