The NAACP on Thursday filed an emergency petition to block Tennessee's attempt to remove the only majority Black congressional district in the state, which the organization argues violates the state constitution. Filed in Davidson County Chancery Court, the emergency petition urged Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) and the state legislature to not enact the new...
Medicaid’s original purpose was to be a safety net for people who could not adequately provide themselves with healthcare. The federal government matched funds from states to ensure eligible residents could get hospital care and physician visits. The partnership sought to strengthen state-led efforts to cover poor people who could not afford private insurance. This […]
During a grilling by lawmakers at a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, Powell denied The Post's reporting on the swanky "Palace of Versailles"...
The Rent Guidelines Board's hikes for rent-stabilized housing will ensure more landlords can’t collect enough to cover costs, and some may abandon their buildings.
Trump has executed a near-complete inversion of the typical diplomatic formula: He’s not nice, he’s not conflict-averse, he’s not euphemistic — and yet he’s...
An army might still march on its stomach, but today’s U.S. military cannot fight China without an umbrella. That truth bears urgent reemphasis. China’s People’s Liberation Army possesses an arsenal of thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles. Each year, even more missiles are added to this already highly formidable inventory. Many of these missiles have […]
Far from just the tax break, young people need the courage to have children. There are many sources for this boost, not the least of which is monetary. Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Matthew Hennessey argues to the contrary, that explicit financial incentive precludes real change in fertility. “One thing’s for certain,” he writes: […]
As is typical when it comes to the minimum wage, Democrats in Chicago have managed to create new problems while trying to solve a problem that did not exist. Chicago has a “restaurant crisis,” according to a Chicago Tribune editorial. The city is in the process of eliminating its tipped minimum wage for restaurant workers and raising their minimum wage to match the rest […]
