Houston, we have a problem — a debt problem. America has officially crossed a number that should stop every American in their tracks: $40 trillion in national debt. Forty trillion dollars feels so abstract that it is easy to dismiss it as Washington’s problem — a figure on a government website, debated by economists and […]
Washington finally started following the money behind political violence. Conservatives cheering the crackdown should make sure it stays aimed at conduct, not politics. A handful of Italian hackers spent two decades building free encrypted email for anarchist and antifascist groups. On Aug. 26, they landed on the same U.S. terrorism list as Hezbollah’s paymasters. The […]
President Donald Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Welles Crowther, the heroic "man in the red bandana" who saved up to 18 lives during the September 11 attacks.
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants lawmakers to be able to include images in the text of their bills, figuring it could help illustrate or simplify some of the trickier things lawmakers are trying to do in their legislation.
Socialist and other left-wing Democrats are facing new scrutiny over past comments about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ahead of the 25th anniversary on Friday.
President Donald Trump’s administration scored a quiet diplomatic win this week. G20 innovation ministers reached consensus on the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies, endorsing pro-innovation policy frameworks, foundational research, commercialization, and trusted deployment. The instinct is sound: Washington should not treat every new technology as an excuse to build another regulator. But as government itself […]
