The new law offers newsrooms tax credits for retaining and hiring journalists. Its backers hope it can do much more.

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

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

Some of the collective action we need to ensure that artificial intelligence is developed cautiously, responsibly, and for everyone’s benefit.

To level the playing field between AI moguls and he rest of us, we need political action.

America’s prison population is plummeting thanks to lower crime rates. The consequences are extraordinary.

Horror stories about private equity-owned hospitals are part of a deeper history of neoliberalism, a new book argues.

Trump administration and Republican policies are pushing more households into poverty. Immigrants are hit hardest.

Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee, Troy Jackson, has a weakness in today’s throw-the-bums-out environment: a long record in state government.

Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee, Troy Jackson, has a weakness in today’s throw-the-bums-out environment: a long record in state government.

Trump administration and Republican policies are pushing more households into poverty. Immigrants are hit hardest.

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

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

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

Nothing makes voters angrier at the party in power than having less money in their pockets, and real disposable income is down.

New federal loan limits restrict borrowing for graduate degrees in many fields, and prospects for private loans are also grim.

The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation.

Nothing makes voters angrier at the party in power than having less money in their pockets, and real disposable income is down.

A new report makes the case for multiple paths after high school—and shows where education and workforce systems still need to improve.

A proposed settlement would give Visa and Mastercard's duopoly a free pass, and deliver no relief on swipe fees.

The unitary executive theory rests on a misinformed reading of the Constitution and the Founders’ understanding of presidential power.

The unitary executive theory rests on a misinformed reading of the Constitution and the Founders’ understanding of presidential power.

Vote-at-home pioneers Phil Keisling and Barbara Smith Warner weigh in on the long-term impacts of Trump’s campaign against vote by mail.

Discouraging surveys and a semi-illiterate president notwithstanding, reports of the death of reading are exaggerated.

Gloria Steinem’s surprising and impossibly beautiful last book, “An Unexpected Life,” has lessons for us all.

Campaign spending data from party-affiliated committees show that Democrats are playing offense in some surprising places.

Campaign spending data from party-affiliated committees show that Democrats are playing offense in some surprising places.

Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

Last week’s Census Bureau report on the uninsured rate for 2025 is the last good news we’ll get for a while.

Many Democrats are hot to remake the Supreme Court. But it’s the lifetime appointment that just kept Trump from meddling with the midterms.

Many Democrats are hot to remake the Supreme Court. But it’s the lifetime appointment that just kept Trump from meddling with the midterms.

Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

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Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.

Could the Clerk of the House lead a midterm coup? Garrett Epps looks to 1863 and 1865 for warnings about our current crisis.

Could the Clerk of the House lead a midterm coup? Garrett Epps looks to 1863 and 1865 for warnings about our current crisis.

In the 48 hours before 9/11, the Bush administration was insisting we spend enough on counterterrorism and not enough on missile defense.

One in five voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 now regrets their vote. Inflation and war are their biggest complaints.

Could the Clerk of the House lead a midterm coup? Garrett Epps looks to 1863 and 1865 for warnings about our current crisis.

In the 48 hours before 9/11, the Bush administration was insisting we spend enough on counterterrorism and not enough on missile defense.

The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation.

From GOP leaders to university presidents, those who might have mitigated to the president’s second term lawlessness instead bent the knee.

The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation.

As Europe struggles to respond to Russian hybrid attacks, Ukrainians warn their Western allies: “Putin is at war with you, too.”

1 in 5 Trump voters regrets their vote, according to a new survey from Navigator Research

The mainstream press was far from perfect. But before the era of “hot takes,” information silos, steep budget cuts, and ugly charges of “fake news,” it had strengths that we need now.

New York survived 9/11 and prospered; the skyline was eventually repaired. But my fears of too much change were hardly misplaced.

A new history of the post 9/11 war on terror shows how badly America and its enemies misunderstood the consequences of their own actions.