Few laws in recent memory have been sold to the public with as much spin and as little truth as the Inflation Reduction Act. Years after this sham bill passed without a single Republican vote, it’s clear that reducing inflation was never the point. What the IRA did do was pump hundreds of billions of […]
News of a rapid expansion of U.S. forces in the Middle East flew under the radar as President Donald Trump’s tariff policy captivated the world. With direct U.S.-Iran talks set for Saturday in Oman, according to the White House, the deployment surge signaled Trump’s eagerness to play what he believes is a strong hand against […]
President Harry S. Truman recognized Israel 11 minutes after Prime Minister David Ben Gurion declared the Jewish state’s independence. The State Department was furious. It believed that the White House action would undermine U.S. relations with the Arab world. The situation was more complex. The Soviets also voted for Israel’s independence, and Arab states were […]
For most of our nation’s history, students received a quality education without the Department of Education. In fact, the department has only existed for 45 years, meaning millions of Americans learned, thrived, and succeeded before this massive federal bureaucracy came into existence. Unfortunately, the department has grown into an oversized and costly bureaucracy with a […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) on Thursday unveiled that it would use social platform X to make announcements going forward, instead of traditional press releases or memos typically posted to the website. “The agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public — formerly known as Twitter,” Linda Kerr-Davis, SSA Midwest-West...
A federal judge further tore into the Justice Department at a Friday hearing for refusing to comply with her order for more information about a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign repeatedly indicated he had no update as to the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia or any efforts to return...
The White House on Friday responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rather than "effectuate" the return. “The Supreme Court made their ruling last night very clear that it's the administration's responsibility to facilitate the return, not to effectuate...
The Air Force Academy has axed affirmative action in its admissions, the government said in a recent court filing. Students for Fair Admissions, which won the Supreme Court case in 2023 that took away race-conscious admissions in public universities, sued the military academies after the justices said their ruling does not apply to those...