For many local governments, administering federal food benefits is increasingly becoming an unfunded mandate.

After Republican attacks, why does the industry still spend so little on elections?

Pennsylvania’s embattled senator could soon hold enormous power in a closely divided Senate. How will he use it?

John Fetterman, the embattled Pennsylvania senator, could soon hold enormous power in a closely divided Senate. How will he use it?

She returned to the Center for American Progress to fight Trump. She’s spent much of her time fighting her left flank instead.

Neera Tanden returned to the Center for American Progress to fight Trump. Instead, she’s spent much of her time fighting Hasan Piker and others on her left flank.

How one of the great architects of the modern GOP wields influence despite his mysterious absence.

How one of the great architects of the modern GOP wields influence despite his mysterious absence.

Voters are clear in their demand for greater affordability, with college costs near the top of their list. Here’s how to deliver it.

Renee Good's ICE shooting was filmed by bystanders. Most shootings into allegedly "weaponized vehicles" produce no competing footage at all.

Evan Barker offers a revealing critique of progressives but fails to explain how disillusionment with Democrats led her to vote for Trump.

How one of the great architects of the modern GOP wields influence despite his mysterious absence.

How Mitch McConnell, one of the great architects of the modern GOP, wields influence despite his mysterious absence.

Evan Barker offers a revealing critique of progressives but fails to explain how disillusionment with Democrats led her to vote for Trump.

For J.D. Vance and his co-religionists in Washington, faith is a powerful means of ascent.

AI is not destroying white-collar work. It is making entry-level jobs harder to get, especially for graduates without real work experience.

Public factories once helped America fight monopoly pricing. A new push would revive them to lower drug costs and ease supply bottlenecks.

Hondurasgate is far more than Trump's pardon of cocaine trafficker and former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

Trump says he may leave NATO—but U.S. law forbids unilateral withdrawal. Democrats should tell allies to ignore any illegal exit attempt.

Iran hawks like Lindsey Graham promise that the bombing will be quick and decisive. History suggests otherwise.

The president scuttled the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program, leaving us blind and with few allies.

The president scuttled the Obama-era agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program, leaving us blind and with few allies.

I've learned Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner and help Paramount win, giving him control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok.

The MAGA movement is fracturing between donors, intellectuals, influencers, and an increasingly radical base.

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

The move would bar small businesses with any amount of ownership from green card holders from applying for the agency’s most popular small business loan program.

Trump can’t legally force “sanctuary” cities to help ICE. So he flooded Minneapolis with federal agents. Here’s what comes next.

Credit card interest rates have soared to record levels, draining household budgets and padding bank profits.

A civilian equivalent of the commissary system could deliver more affordable grocery prices to hard-pressed Americans.

A recently unsealed FTC lawsuit, dropped by the Trump administration, details how Walmart keeps competitors’ prices artificially high.

A recently unsealed FTC lawsuit, dropped by the Trump administration, details how Walmart keeps competitors’ prices artificially high.