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Its order allowing Trump temporarily to oust two tenure-protected officials bodes ill for agency independence.
The White House and Congressional Republicans Love Medicaid work requirements. but they don't work and will lead to more ...
If Paramount's heiress chief Shari Redstone settles with Trump, it will rightly be seen as extortion and bribery.
Governing is complicated. Trump and Musk may have limited capacity for personal growth, but the rest of us can learn from their failure.
Grievance dressed as law, history warped into license, today’s Court is not checking Trump’s authoritarianism—it’s codifying ...
Why did Americans elect a felon instead of a prosecutor? Blame it on justifiably diminished confidence in our criminal justice system.
In March 1944, the Third Reich occupied Hungary, a country that until then had been one of Berlin’s closest allies. One of those who arrived with the invading forces was a lieutenant colonel in the SS ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill is one big bait-and-switch. Approximately 8 million people will lose coverage from all the Medicaid changes.
Democrats are putting a lot of their political chips on the message that Donald Trump’s radical tariff regime will raise consumer prices, tank the economy, and alienate voters. So far, that’s looking ...
Emil Bove, left, served on President Trump’s criminal defense team and was a federal prosecutor in New York. In four months as a senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove has overhauled the ...
The House faction of budget hawks yammers about cutting deficits, but this week, when it came to Trump’s budget bill, once again, they caved.
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