If you want the real cost of green energy mandates, skip the politicians and listen to the economist who served former President Barack Obama. Michael Greenstone, former chief economist of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and his University of Chicago team studied Renewable Portfolio Standards, the renewable mandates now covering most of the country. Using […]
The Trump administration’s sanctions against officials of the International Criminal Court have triggered an outpouring of concern: European governments and human-rights organizations warn that the international justice institutions painstakingly constructed over three decades are being weakened. They’re right. But the problem is not Trump. International justice spent years eroding the credibility and legitimacy on which […]
Emily Bickford knows the answer to a question no judge should have the power to settle: which parent gets to be right about God. Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court told her on Tuesday, in a case called Bickford v. Bradeen, that on the subject of her daughter’s faith, she isn’t it. Her ex, Matthew Bradeen, now […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) built his brand on GSD: getting stuff done. But these days, he seems more interested in the exact opposite. Rather than building on the policies he has spent years touting, Shapiro is increasingly reversing course on them. Call it the Shapiro U-turn — and nowhere is that reversal clearer than on […]
President Donald Trump recently announced a monumental oil agreement with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, partnering with private energy operators to secure majority control over 17 key oil fields holding an estimated 65 billion barrels of proven reserves. This landmark pact follows the U.S. military capture of Nicolas Maduro during Operation Absolute Resolve earlier this […]
The lens of history can clarify the present. Emzari Gelashvili in a Washington Examiner op-ed compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-a-terre list to Stalin’s list of kulaks, which preceded Holodomor. The history of proscription lists is long, and the pattern is sharp: Proscription lists of targeted individuals historically have appeared when democracies were […]
A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama handed the Trump Justice Department a major victory over New York Democrats this week that is probably a preview of yet another victory when Boulder County, Colorado, faces producers in the Supreme Court this fall. New York engineered this fight in December 2024, when Democratic Gov. […]
Missouri launched an effort at the Supreme Court late Friday to restore its Republican-friendly congressional map, warning that a lower ruling invalidating it has unleashed “unprecedented chaos” on the midterms. “A federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,” Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s (R) office wrote in its emergency application. Missouri’s new congressional map created a...
House Democrats see President Trump's embrace of data centers as a political gift, hoping the radioactive issue will help the party flip control of the chamber in November's midterms. The topic has emerged as a late campaign juggernaut given the sheer proliferation of data centers in a great many communities around the country, which has...
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top choice for the next Army secretary, is among at least four candidates being considered for the role, sources familiar with the process told The Hill this week. The field also includes at least two current officials — Marc Anderson, an assistant secretary of the...
Democrats are seeking to seize on the Republican National Committee's first-of-its-kind midterm convention with plans for counterprogramming around the two-day Dallas bash as the party eyes a Senate flip in the red state. Republicans are hopeful the so-called "Trump-a-palooza" next week excites the base about turning out amid a bleak midterm outlook for the GOP and concerns about low attendance, timing and...
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer allegedly fostered a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace when she led the department, a scathing watchdog report released Thursday found. An investigation by the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General said Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned in April, regularly drank alcohol during the workday, failed to properly report expensive gifts she had...
The Vietnam War veterans suing over President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch are seeking an emergency court order to block the administration from pursuing its imminent plans to break ground in the Washington D.C. area. Veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, Jon Gundersen — along with architectural historian Calder Loth — filed their temporary restraining order request...
