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WASHINGTON — As the economy emerges as a likely defining issue in next year's midterm elections, President Donald Trump has wrestled with Americans' rising cost of living, declaring himself the "affordability president,"...Read more

The Trump administration’s threat to withhold money that Democratic-run states use to administer the SNAP food aid program unless officials release personal information about individual recipients puts 2 million people ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 26-24 along party lines Wednesday to advance a bill to overhaul the broadband permitting system.

The permitting bill would set deadlines for state and local ...Read more

ATLANTA – A federal judge on Wednesday considered whether to dismiss a lawsuit challenging provisions of a 2024 state elections law that changed where homeless voters could receive election mail and strengthened the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of Democrats in both chambers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. of Virginia, is leading opposition to a potential regulatory carve-out from a new minimum tax...Read more

While only a small number of us live to be 100, everyone ‘s birthday has a centenary date. For historians who seem mostly to be of the liberal persuasion and obituary writers (ditto) the way the 100th anniversary of a ...Read more

He “could count by twos and tie his shoes.” That’s the opening line in episodes of Franklin, a children’s TV series about an eponymous turtle that goes on to do a lot of learning. The same thing, minus the learning...Read more

President Donald Trump is promoting the idea of sending a $2,000 check to most Americans funded by revenues brought by his tariffs on imports.

The scheme has received a frosty reception from Trump’s fellow Republicans ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal nailed it last week with a headline that read, “Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine.”

That headline captures why the president is so eager to end Vladimir Putin’s war...Read more

Reading week is quiet at Northwestern University. It’s a time for students to write papers and study for exams and for professors to grade and prepare new courses for winter quarter. But right now, it’s a different ...Read more

With less than six months remaining until a crucial party convention, candidates in the 1st Congressional District are scrambling to collect the endorsements of key Democratic insiders in order to show the momentum of ...Read more

When the College Board canceled SAT testing in 2020, hundreds of colleges adopted test-optional admissions policies for that fall. The Urban Institute reported that the number of four-year colleges and universities going ...Read more

In almost every election cycle, politicians toot their own horn when it comes to rising wages, pointing to higher paychecks as proof that the average worker is thriving. But under the Biden administration, millions of ...Read more

Democrats see an opportunity to hammer Republicans and the White House on “affordability,” counting on voters to forget that inflation soared to 9 percent in 2022 — the highest in four decades — under President Joe...Read more

The COVID pandemic brought out the worst of the Nanny State in the name of public health. From school closures, to scientifically dubious social distancing and mask mandates, few elected officials missed a chance to exert ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)— famously helmed by Elon Musk — has been decentralized, its functions transferred to the Office of Personnel Management. And while it didn’t ...Read more

For more than a century, American education has been driven by the same invisible engine: standardization. Rows of desks. National tests. Rankings.

From No Child Left Behind to statewide report cards, we have long ...Read more

The decision to attend college was a no-brainer during the second half of the 20th century. It almost assured higher earnings and job security. Tuition wasn’t even very expensive. None of this is true now.

The economic...Read more

The priorities that drive the making of President Donald Trump’s urgent, yet sometimes helter-skelter, international security initiatives – from the Ukraine war to the Middle East – can best be understood by viewing ...Read more