The U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from early 2023 to early 2024 than the government previously reported, a sizable revision that could affect the Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates and reverberate in the presidential campaign.

New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a 14-term incumbent and a fixture in his hometown of Paterson for more than four decades, died Wednesday, according to a statement from his social media account. He was 87.

Cryptocurrency companies are pouring an "unprecedented" amount of money into federal elections, according to a watchdog report Wednesday that says the industry accounts for nearly half of the direct corporate spending this cycle.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who turned a camouflage cap into an emblem of the Harris-Walz campaign's bid to win battleground voters, will introduce himself to the nation again Wednesday in a prime-time convention speech organizers say will highlight the "small-town values" that have shaped him.

New York City continues to stumble over the fact that its sanctuary promises are irreconcilable with the reality of running a city while inviting a surge in illegal immigrants. New York City has been one of the many Democratic-run “sanctuary” cities that have encouraged illegal immigrants to cross the southern border by the hundreds of […]

There’s always a cost to freedom, and in the case of “reproductive freedom,” I think it’s important to ask, who’s picking up the bill? Every year, countless women experience an unplanned pregnancy. Planned Parenthood attempts to offer a “plan” where there isn’t one: abortion. Capitalizing on uncertainty and fear, its plan includes death and lifetime […]

Just over two weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate, Walz has already come under fire for not sharing the truth about things ranging from his 1995 drunk driving arrest to his rank in the military. The latest falsehood has to do with the journey he and his wife […]

Learning isn’t necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to learn lessons anew, and some do not. The lessons about economic growth taught over the long run of history are clear. Growth is not inevitable, and while riches may be accumulated, or appropriated, by the […]

PITTSBURGH — When Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) faced Steve Irwin in the 2022 Democratic primary contest for the congressional seat that had been held by Mike Doyle since 1995, she had one thing he did not: a base of support. Lee had been a community organizer and then a state representative before she ran for […]

Vice President Kamala Harris‘s presidential campaign unveiled an economic plan last week indicating that she would enforce the “first-ever federal ban” on food price hikes. The proposal has received a wave of criticism, including from some unlikely sources. “It’s hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris’s price-gouging proposal is,” wrote Washington Post economics columnist Catherine […]