Trump Accounts, the government-funded investment vehicle for children born during President Trump's second term, will launch on Saturday, July Fourth, as the administration links the nation's 250th anniversary to financial independence.
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that 19 intelligence community employees fired because they were doing diversity, equity and inclusion jobs must be given a chance to apply for other posts.
Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr., who returned to Capitol Hill this week after a four-month absence due to depression, has introduced a bill to strengthen enforcement of federal mental health parity laws.
Hannah Dugan, the former Wisconsin judge convicted of trying to thwart ICE's attempt to arrest an illegal immigrant in her courtroom, begged for mercy this week, saying she shouldn't serve any jail time because she has suffered enough.
The U.S. added 57,000 jobs in June, the government said Thursday in a report showing slower hiring growth on the cusp of summer compared to red-hot reports earlier in 2026.
Today, building the infrastructure necessary to maintain America’s prosperity often requires navigating a maze of permits, lawsuits, and regulatory delays. The power to block has systematically triumphed over the freedom to build. Yet our infrastructure paralysis is self-inflicted. Whether it is a natural gas pipeline, a transmission line, or mines for the building blocks of […]
Two federal courts struck down separate Trump administration voter citizenship verification efforts within the same week this June, and the wins for plaintiffs came with an asterisk neither side has fully reckoned with. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, sitting on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, vacated the administration’s overhaul of the SAVE database, […]
When autocrats seek legitimacy, they often travel in pairs. Such was the case when Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic traveled to Tbilisi in June. While this was the first visit by a Serbian head of state to Georgia, their two regimes already have much in common. They are both well practiced in the balancing act of […]
Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, the House passed a sweeping package with the potential to make the internet a little less free. Yes, Monday night the House gave a thumbs-up to the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, which, as noted in a post from the Energy and Commerce Committee, is intended to […]
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that the federal government cannot cap how much a political party spends in direct coordination with its own candidates. National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission struck down a Federal Election Campaign Act provision that had limited coordinated party expenditures since 1974, overruling the court’s 2001 decision […]
Gov. Maura Healey already has a dubious record on immigration. Under her watch, Massachusetts’ emergency shelter system spiraled into more than $1 billion a year, with migrant families housed in hotels and even a shuttered prison at roughly $3,500 per family per week, all at taxpayers’ expense. She then promptly signed orders restricting cooperation with […]
The Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara does more than uphold a broad view of birthright citizenship. It reads into the Fourteenth Amendment a sweeping right for foreign nationals that the text, history, and purpose of that provision never supported. In the process, the majority transforms a targeted constitutional fix for one of the […]
Like millions of Americans — and a few billion others around the world — I’ve been glued to the World Cup. One thing that has really stood out is not only the excitement on the field, but also what’s happening in the stands. Across our country, the World Cup is providing an optimistic lens for […]
