Would you refuse hundreds of millions of dollars annually for K-12 education at no cost to your state budget? That is a decision each of the nation’s 50 governors, who meet in Washington this week, must make this year in response to the first nationwide school choice program enacted last summer. Included in the new […]
In 2010, President Barack Obama and his party exploited enormous congressional majorities to ram through a controversial healthcare law, despite widespread opposition to many of its major components and clear signals from the electorate, such as the people of Massachusetts electing a Republican to the Senate, to stop it. Democrats sold the law as a […]
If you want to be a pessimist, the worst economic news for President Donald Trump during his first full year back in the Oval Office is that the Federal Reserve cannot possibly justify slashing the interest rate charged by banks to borrow from each other overnight. If you want to be an optimist, you just […]
Democrats’ hubris in thinking they can outsmart basic economics is matched only by how reliably economics drags their policies back to reality. In 2024, the city of Seattle boldly introduced a minimum wage law for food delivery drivers, targeting companies such as DoorDash and Uber Eats. The law required those companies to pay drivers a minimum per-mile rate and a […]
The U.S. economy grew far slower than expected in the final three months of 2025, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) rose at an annualized rate of 1.4 percent during the fourth quarter. Economists expected the U.S to economy to have grown at a...
President Trump will welcome governors to the White House on Friday morning for a working breakfast. The annual meeting between Trump and state leaders — typically a bipartisan gathering — has been overshadowed by the president's attacks on Democratic Govs. Wes Moore (Md.) and Jared Polis (Colo.). The National Governors Association (NGA) said earlier this...
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[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 am ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] You’d have to say that Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent this year. But you could...
U.S. fighter jets intercepted Russian warplanes on Thursday after they were detected near Alaska. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected, tracked and intercepted two Russian Tu-95s bomber planes, two Su-35s fighter planes and one A-50 spy plane until they departed the Alaskan ADIZ, officials said in a statement released late Thursday. The defense...
More than 320,000 vehicles manufactured by Nissan North America, Inc. have been recalled due to an engine failure risk, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Late last month the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing on the federal environmental review and permitting process for such infrastructure projects as pipelines, powerplants, fossil energy extraction, mining, refinery equipment, ad infinitum. So broken is the process that — believe it or not — there was bipartisan agreement that reform is necessary. So broken is...
