The Senate passed landmark legislation Monday night intended to regulate the Wild West of college sports compensation and transfers, teeing up a vote in the House after the November midterm elections.
Kansas City spent 45 years running a contracting program that its own hired consultant said the city couldn’t defend, then took two more months to admit it. On Aug. 13, the city council voted 12-0 to kill the Minority and Women Business Enterprise program and replace it with three tiers of race-neutral small business certification, […]
This year, we’ve witnessed a tidal wave of positive movement to protect children online with the avalanche of Big Tech legal cases, and Meta is facing some of the most significant consequences. Now Congress has the opportunity to turn that momentum into lasting, industrywide standards. Meta’s $17 billion settlement with more than 47 state attorneys […]
With the midterm elections just around the corner, healthcare and affordability will likely once again dominate the airwaves. There’s no shortage of ambitious reforms out there, yet Congress should start by focusing its attention on the biggest drivers of health spending in recent years: hospital systems. Between 2022 and 2024, hospital services represented 40% of […]
Last week, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an extraordinary measure — sanctions on an ostensibly allied nation, Israel. Joining the likes of Spain and Ireland, he denounced Jewish settlers in the West Bank as “terrorists” and accused them of “ethnic cleansing.” This move is widely recognized as a serious diplomatic escalation and has been […]
When senators return Monday from the August Recess, they face much unfinished business. Essential responsibilities that the Constitution assigns the president and the upper chamber are judicial nominations and confirmations with Senate advice and consent, because federal jurists resolve critical disputes involving life, liberty, and core rights, while they enjoy life tenure, so judges can […]
Illinois has identified a real problem in behavioral healthcare: some people with commercial insurance struggle to find in-network care, while some providers say low reimbursement discourages them from joining insurance networks. Those problems deserve attention. But recognizing a problem does not mean policymakers know the right solution. Illinois has chosen to mandate one. In December […]
Later this month, President Donald Trump will meet with China’s Xi Jinping in Washington. Earlier this summer, Trump met with European leaders at a NATO summit in Turkey. You can guess which one occupied more of the president’s attention. China isn’t America’s only concern in 2026, of course. The Trump administration’s latest National Security Strategy […]
Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) recently argued that winning the technology race should not come at the expense of American households. Legislation like the Ratepayer Protection Act is needed to ensure that communities are not left paying for the additional electricity infrastructure required to power large technology facilities. The principle is straightforward: if you create additional […]
Americans again mourned the 2,977 people murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. At the Pentagon, President Donald Trump renewed the nation’s vow never to forget and said America must be “strong” and “smart.” That vow asks more of Washington than remembrance. It requires the imagination to prepare for dangers that will not look like the last […]
Last week, the Trump administration floated the idea of redirecting federal child-care aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per...
All the speeches at the convention in Dallas last week were fine, but I didn’t hear the one I’m still waiting for President Donald Trump to deliver. It’s the one where he expresses contrition for the things he got wrong and explains clearly his rationale for what he got right. It’s not really a speech […]
Social Security, the bedrock of our nation’s retirement system, is projected to become insolvent in just six years, with benefit cuts of 22% if Congress doesn’t act. Social Security is barreling toward insolvency due to the fundamental imbalance between its incoming revenues and outgoing benefits. As our population ages and benefits cost more, the program’s […]
Republicans gathered in Dallas for an unusual mid-cycle convention to shore up the base ahead of November’s midterm elections. President Donald Trump headlined the event because he has the most to lose. He is not on the ballot, but his job is. And he knows it. In Dallas on Wednesday during his nearly two-hour speech, […]
