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It's high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn't fit. President Donald Trump's brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, ...Read more

Heading into Tax Day, if you listen to progressive policymakers for a few minutes, you’ll likely hear that few problems on Earth can’t be solved by “taxing the rich.” Want to nationalize health care? Tax the rich. ...Read more

The share of before-tax income going to the richest 1% of taxpayers has more than doubled in the last half-century. This massive upward redistribution of income was primarily a result of the ability of the rich to ...Read more

With the death of a second child from measles and cases in the U.S. surging past 600, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, finally stated the obvious: Vaccination is the best way...Read more

We are very relieved that the Supreme Court has made the decision to keep in place an existing appeals court ruling that upheld New York’s so-called “sensitive locations” concealed firearm ban, which prohibited ...Read more

President Donald Trump is taking a big risk that his tariff trade war will ultimately pay off – but in the meantime ordinary taxpayers who propelled him into the Oval Office are taking a huge hit with their life savings....Read more

“I can save someone’s life during an overdose.”

This is a statement we believe all students should be able to make by the time they graduate from high school. That’s why we — an undergraduate student and ...Read more

The recent release of the last reported bunch of classified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy yielded information on various mysterious CIA plans worldwide — but no agency involvement in ...Read more

Increasingly it is clear that the only checks on the unconstitutional acts of the Trump administration will come from the courts. But will the conservative Roberts court, with three justices appointed by Donald Trump, be ...Read more

Commentators keep pointing to the Trump administration’s Supreme Court “wins” over the past several days in cases involving the whirlwind of his executive orders, but in legal terms there’s a lot less to the ...Read more

On Tuesday, the new Mega Millions lottery was launched. The lottery is promoting several enhancements, including a “built-in multiplier,” “bigger jackpots and secondary prizes,” and “better odds to win jackpot.�...Read more

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Venezuelan immigrants accused of belonging to a gang and slated for deportation by the Trump administration have the right to a judicial hearing before they can be sent out of the ...Read more

Since the Trump administration has refused to guarantee that people being picked and deported using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act have the right to appear before a judge, the U.S. Supreme Court must.

In a short decision ...Read more

What do you do when the economy is going to hell, 401(k)s are going down the toilet and we're bracing for higher prices on nearly everything?

If you're an average American, you worry.

If you're Donald Trump, you go ...Read more

House GOP leaders punted on trying to adopt the Senate-revised budget blueprint Wednesday after a long day of negotiations didn’t bear enough fruit to overcome the objections of more than enough spending hawks to sink ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Senate President Don Harmon said Wednesday that he disagrees with Illinois election officials who said he collected millions of dollars more in campaign contributions last year than he was allowed to ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at relaxing rules that limit water flow for shower heads, targeting an issue he has long complained makes it harder for him to properly wash his hair.

The order ends ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to use military action against Iran if it were to try and acquire a nuclear weapon, as negotiators are set to meet Saturday to discuss the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

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WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill Wednesday that would curtail the power of federal district judges to issue nationwide injunctions, the most high-profile legislative pushback from Republicans to a string of rulings ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Republican drive to quickly pass President Donald Trump’s tax cut proposals and increase the U.S. debt ceiling has been temporarily delayed by party infighting over federal deficits.

House leaders ...Read more