President Trump's increasingly urgent push to construct a massive wall on the border with Mexico has created a nightmare scenario for... Read More
Back in the 1970s, the joke was that run-down Glasgow was Disneyland. “Aye, because this disnae work, and that disnae work.... Read More
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released waiver concepts to give states examples of reforms they... Read More
If there were any lingering doubt that Donald Trump's latest plan to curb asylum is flatly unlawful, Judge Jay Bybee quashed it on Friday.In... Read More
As a candidate for president, Donald Trump had at least one thing in common with President Barack Obama: Both leaders promised to renegotiate... Read More
The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone... Read More
Over the course of three and a half hours, the members of the committee staked out opposite sides of a partisan battle over whether Google... Read More
When President Donald Trump bragged in his first State of the Union address about cutting red tape, the Democratic response was no... Read More
Congress is on the brink of a first for the Trump era: the passage of a major piece of bipartisan legislation. It may also be the... Read More
The Trump Administration has backed the criminal justice reform measures now awaiting final congressional approval. A bill seems likely to... Read More
he Paris Agreement became a milestone in the fight against climate change by binding all countries, no matter their level of economic... Read More
Financial markets got a short-lived sugar high when Presidents Trump and Xi announced a tariff ceasefire in Argentina on December 1, after... Read More
Whether the coverage provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would lead to adverse labor market consequences in the form of reduced... Read More
The Federal government's total outstanding debt is quickly approaching $21.5 trillion. Debt held by the public (that is, not including the... Read More
The 2016 election put the plight of working-class America front and center in American politics. A long-neglected and largely forgotten... Read More
he 2018 midterm elections affirmed that the deep geographic divides within the United States are here to stay. As they did in 2016, Americans... Read More
Vice President Mike Pence looked taken aback, barely moving and saying nothing as President Donald Trump and the top Democratic... Read More
Mitch McConnell has decided to bring criminal justice reform to the Senate floor as soon as this week, a remarkable turnaround for the... Read More
On November 15, a senior Pentagon official publicly admitted that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) failed its first-ever... Read More
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and majority shareholder, published a memo on censorship. “What should be the... Read More
As usual, things are behind schedule in Washington. After months of wrangling, Congress is trying to push a compromise farm bill over the... Read More
One of Donald Trump's more dubious constitutional notions is that the attorney general serves to protect the president, rather than serving... Read More
As he ponders mounting a campaign for the White House in 2020, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is preparing to introduce radical and ambitious... Read More
To the extent bipartisan policy reform is possible, ideas must appeal to the instincts of both conservatives and liberal progressives.In that... Read More
When President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address nearly a year ago, he didn't talk about climate change. But he... Read More
The Yellow Jacket violence that has afflicted France since mid-November is a multilayered phenomenon, with some root causes that are... Read More
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a likely 2020 presidential contender, recently laid out her vision for foreign policy in a speech at... Read More
Markets may be jittery, but America's job-creation machine continues to roll on. America's economy added 155,000 net new jobs in November.... Read More
