Maybe you keep a checkbook or update a spreadsheet to track your spending — well, so does the government. From agency spending to grants, this is laid out on a website called USAspending.gov. This September marks the 20-year anniversary of the bipartisan legislation, spearheaded by the late Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and then-Sen. Barack Obama […]
The Supreme Court is once again under attack from those calling for packing, or even eliminating, the institution as hopelessly ideological and divided.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together,” warned Adam Smith 250 years ago, “even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Today, the masters of the AI universe have combined forces, and the leaders of the Democratic Party have joined […]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at City Hall on Monday and announced that his city is suing the federal government to preserve immigrants’ access to Medicaid and food stamps. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a companion suit the same afternoon, joined by 21 other states and the District of Columbia. Both cases […]
The Trump administration is attempting to reconcile two irreconcilable forces: a dynamic private market and an aggressive, interventionist state. The Trump administration has had no qualms about creating a “venture capitalist state,” taking ownership stakes in over 30 companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. Over time, this creeping state capitalism will produce the exact […]
President Donald Trump has declared war on the International Criminal Court. On Aug. 18, the United States imposed sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye for attempting to prosecute government officials outside the court’s jurisdiction. Building on his vow last month to dismantle the ICC “brick-by-brick,” Secretary of State Marco […]
