Americans love to cite Europe for policy experiments, but not everything that happens on the old continent should be treated as secret knowledge which Americans lack.
President Trump's battle to end the Department of Education is about to turn into a war as advocates prepare to defend the federal agency through litigation and civic action while he readies an executive order seeking its elimination. "I expect that any actions to shutter the agency or to dismantle it will be challenged in...
Republicans are raising concerns about what the Trump-backed strategy to stave off next week’s government shutdown threat could mean for defense programs for the next six months. President Trump this week touted a clean, six-month continuing resolution (CR) as one that would allow Republicans to focus more on advancing their tax agenda while “effectively freezing...
The government will shut down next Saturday morning unless Congress can rally around a funding measure by the end of the week, setting up the first big legislative spending fight of President Trump’s second term. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is set to move forward with a stopgap measure, also known as a continuing resolution (CR),...
President Trump is signaling a softer approach to the mass firings of federal government workers led by Elon Musk as cracks emerge between the tech billionaire and Cabinet secretaries running the agencies he’s gutting. Musk’s swift and wide-ranging cost-cutting efforts have been met with pushback from some in Washington, who have complained behind-the-scenes about the...
While the centralization of the federal government helps to ensure that Americans’ democratic will is implemented by their leaders, it can also be a major hindrance to that goal. Centralization breeds politicization. We are seeing this on a massive scale right now at the beginning of the second Trump administration, including at the FBI with […]
Over-the-top anti-Trump rhetoric wasn’t exactly effective during President Donald Trump’s first term. But many Democratic lawmakers haven’t learned their lesson and are perpetuating their hysteria and alarmism — this time, with a race-baiting twist. Multiple Democratic members of Congress have in recent weeks suggested that Trump is going to bring back segregation or even slavery. […]
On this International Women’s Day, social media will be flooded with speeches, press releases, and hashtags about “empowerment” and “equity.” The United Nations will host panel discussions and promote another initiative in the name of “gender equality.” But these gestures, performative at best, do nothing to stop or call attention to the violence that defines […]