For decades, organized labor has been in decline. Despite periodic headlines suggesting a resurgence, unionization in the United States continues to fall. In 2025, just 10% of American workers belonged to a union — down from prior decades and only a marginal uptick from a record low the year before. Strip out the public sector, […]
On April 12, Hungarians will vote in the most important European election of 2026. For the first time since Viktor Orban consolidated power in 2010, the prime minister faces a challenger capable of unseating him. Peter Magyar, a former Fidesz insider who broke with the ruling party in 2024, has built the Tisza Party from […]
Over the weekend, France became the latest member of NATO to snub the United States. Its decision to restrict airspace access for U.S. military overflights transporting supplies to Israel may prove to be the moment President Donald Trump chose to walk away from the trans-Atlantic alliance. Although French President Emmanuel Macron’s office told Reuters the […]
Imagine running a restaurant where you need 51 different menus. Not because your customers want them, but because trial lawyers in each state and Washington, D.C., demand them. That’s what could happen for some businesses if the Supreme Court decides, in an upcoming case, to let states impose laws that cover the same products as […]
A group of House Democrats introduced a new bill on Thursday that would ban the president, vice president, members of Congress, candidates for federal office, and their spouses and dependents from buying and selling individual stocks. The bill, dubbed the No Getting Rich in Congress Act, is spearheaded by Reps. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), Derek Tran...
By any conventional measure of power, the U.S. remains formidable. Its military power is unmatched, and it still possesses the world’s largest national economy. Yet power in the 21st century has never rested on material capabilities alone. For decades, America’s true strategic advantage lay in something less tangible but more potent: its capacity to attract....
Notwithstanding predictable partisan hand wringing on Capitol Hill over the war in Iran, the conflict has sent the Russia-China axis reeling. The toppling of Nicolás Maduro in January was just the start of a much broader plan. Trump's pressure on Cuba is the second salvo. But Iran has now become the main effort. In just two months, Russian...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) went after President Trump over his demand for one of the two remaining candidates in the Texas Republican Senate primary to drop out after he makes an endorsement. “Trump now says he is going to endorse either [Sen. John] Cornyn [(R-Texas)] or [Texas Attorney General Ken] Paxton and demands...
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico gave a defiant and hopeful speech at a victory party Wednesday night, a day after he won his party's primary. “The number of Texans who have never voted before but showed up in this election is unprecedented. The number of independents and Republicans who voted in this Democratic primary...
The Defense Department (DOD) late Wednesday released the name of the fifth U.S. service member killed over the weekend after an Iranian drone struck a tactical operations center in Kuwait. Maj. Jeffrey R. O'Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa, died on Sunday at Shuaiba Port during an unmanned aircraft system attack, the Pentagon said in a...
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) said Wednesday he is not making a reelection bid in this year’s midterm, ending a career in Congress that included serving in the House and Senate. “Serving the people of Montana in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate the past 13 years has been the greatest honor of my professional...
Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC staffers deployed to South Carolina to aid measles response With nearly 1,000 confirmed measles cases as of this week, staffers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are going to South Carolina to help the state in...
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) said Wednesday that he will not run for reelection, joining a notable mass of House Republicans not running for Congress again this year. “After prayer, reflection, and many long conversations, I have decided that I will not seek reelection in 2026. I will complete this term fully committed to my work...
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday tore into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) over their handling of a fraud scandal within Minnesota’s social services programs. President Trump has made the scam, and the fact that many of those convicted were of Somali descent,...
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) admitted to having an affair with one of his congressional staffers, who died after setting herself on fire last year. Gonzales, who had been facing increasing scrutiny over allegations of the affair, told conservative talk show host Joe Pags in an interview that he “made a mistake” and had a “lapse...
