President Donald Trump’s insistence that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is behind the curve and should lower interest rates immediately has been criticized by the usual suspects. A close examination of the inflation record since Trump’s inauguration, though, shows he’s right. The Fed has a dual mandate to maintain stable prices and encourage low unemployment. […]

For the first time, there is a very real threat to Trump’s perceived infallibility among the most devoted MAGA acolytes. 

Alaska Airlines resumed its operations early Monday after grounding all flights for approximately three hours because of a technical outage. The “temporary, system-wide ground stop” began at approximately 8 p.m. PDT and applied to all Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights. By 11 p.m. PDT, the ground stop had been lifted, Alaska Airlines said in...

No nation is healthy when floods are sweeping children away, fires are burning families alive in their homes, and tornadoes are leveling entire towns as its people do nothing of consequence to keep those tragedies from becoming normal.