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I TRULY BELIEVE we're in a moment where history is going to look back on this time as a fundamental choice that had to be made between democracies and autocracies,' [...]

IT WAS A full quarter-century ago when President Bill Clinton delivered one of the few quotable State of the Union addresses in American history. 'The era of big government is [...]

BEFORE THE 'BRIDGE to Nowhere' became a legislative cliche, there was the highway to Dennis Hastert's farm. Hastert was speaker of the House in 2005 when he secured a $207 [...]

IN A SPEECH delivered almost exactly one year before the 2020 election, Vice President Mike Pence outlined the stakes of a potential tech cold war between the United States and [...]

PETER NAVARRO IS a loser. Literally. He has run for office five times and never won. He has never gained approval from the Senate to occupy an official cabinet post. [...]

IN ANY OTHER baseball season, two Cleveland Indians pitchers hitting the bars in Chicago after a Saturday night game wouldn't be news. It wouldn't cause a minor scandal within the [...]

'ONE OF THE things this crisis has taught us,' Peter Navarro, a top administration economic adviser, explained from behind the podium in the White House's briefing room, 'is that we [...]

A DECADE AGO, the iPhone was still a novelty. Apple's App Store was barely a year old. Online gaming required consoles or computers, Wi-Fi connections, and power outlets. Your phone [...]

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S trade war with China has been costly for Americans--and the COVID-19 outbreak reveals that we might be paying with more than just our money. What's worse, the [...]

THE FIRST TIME New Hampshire State Rep. Sherman Packard (R-Rockingham) heard of the car-sharing startup Turo, it was from a lobbyist. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Packard says, has a 'huge footprint in [...]

FOR WEEKS THIS winter, Pennsylvania flirted with a full-blown constitutional crisis. In January, the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court sided with activists from the League of Women Voters and ordered state [...]

WHEN THE UNITED States invaded Iraq in 2003, Eric Smith was a 17-year-old sailor. Over the next five and a half years, he was twice deployed to the Middle East [...]

DOCTOR JOHN HARDING was on call when the patient arrived. Twenty-four weeks pregnant, she was bleeding and in pain, suffering from a condition known as a placental abruption, where the [...]

CENTRAL TO MANY of the thorny geopolitical issues that have surrounded Georgia since it gained independence three decades ago is what happened at NATO's 2008 summit in Romania. President George [...]

FACED WITH THE prospect of an Asian nation overtaking the United States as the world's preeminent manufacturer of vital technology, the president struck a nationalist pose. 'The health and vitality [...]

AFTER THOUSANDS OF Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation's Communist government, President Joe Biden said America 'stands firmly' with the people of Cuba. [...]

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle [...]

AMERICANS HAD TO wait more than a month after Election Day to learn that George W. Bush had beaten Al Gore in 2000. Declaring a winner involved recounting about 62,000 [...]

On the surface, sci-fi novelist Sarah Pinsker's sophomore effort is about how new technologies disrupt, improve, and challenge our relationships with family, coworkers, and schoolmates. But it's really about how [...]

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC created all sorts of new problems for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), but the most serious financial issue the agency faces was a crisis longbefore anyone had [...]

After his homemade car is impounded because it lacks license plates, the socially awkward but inventive Italian engineer Giorgio Rosa (Elio Germano) dreams up a way to escape the government's [...]

THE ANNUAL MARCH Madness college basketball tournament has long been associated with sports betting, thanks to ubiquitous but technically illegal bracket pools in offices and bars. But this year's tournament [...]

THE $1.9 TRILLION emergency spending bill Congress passed in early March was full of items that had little to do with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ostensible justification for the package. [...]

EACH SUMMER, WHEN wildfires sweep through parts of the state, thousands of inmates from the California Department of Corrections are deployed to work alongside the professional firefighters to battle the [...]

THE SHARE OF teens with driver's licenses peaked in 1983, when 72 percent of Americans aged 16-19 were legally approved to drive. Today, only about 50 percent are. The decline [...]

SINCE AT LEAST 2004, when the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Pennsylvania's congressional district boundaries because there was not a good enough way to quantify gerrymandering, the problem facing [...]

ONE OF THE few liberalizing policies contained in the Trump administration's rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) amounts to little more than 'a drop in the milk [...]

WHEN THE TRANSIT agency that serves Washington, D.C., replaced its aging trains during the last decade, it ended up paying about $400 million more than global averages--the equivalent of an [...]

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has spurred major changes in how Americans interact with the health care system--except in places that literally forbid providers from adapting. That is the situation in Mississippi, [...]

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN should lift the myriad tariffs that Donald Trump placed on foreign steel, aluminum, solar panels, and washing machines, along with a wide range of Chinese-made goods. Those [...]

As long as there have been American elections, foreign powers have sought to influence them. George Washington and John Adams were targeted by French revolutionaries during 1796. and Nazi Germany [...]

When voters in Arlington, Texas, approved a 2016 referendum to replace their then-22-year-old ballpark with a new retractable-roof stadium, the $1.1 billion project appeared to be more on the up-and-up [...]

OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REFORM had another big, bipartisan year in state capitals--but no state cut more red tape than Florida. On the last day of June, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, [...]

CONGRESS HAS PROPOSED a $25 billion bailout for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as part of the latest COVID-19 stimulus bill, but it's unlikely that any amount of cash will [...]

IT TOOK A pandemic for the White House to admit a basic economic reality: Tariffs on goods imported into the United States are paid by Americans. That's something that pretty [...]

In America, skateboarding can be a punky act of youthful rebellion, or at least a way to get away from your overbearing parents for a bit. In Afghanistan, it's all [...]

Sam Mendes' 1917 is a war film, yes, but also a horror film in the truest sense of the word. Death lurks behind every corner: arbitrary, horrific, and unavoidable. The [...]

WHILE THE TRUMP administration's tariffs on steel, aluminum, and Chinese-made goods have earned most of the headlines, another more obscure set of Trump-backed import duties are hitting Americans squarely in [...]

A DECADE OF consistent economic growth lifted the major stock market indices to all-time highs in 2018. But even before the recent dip, many state pensionconsistent economic plans were struggling [...]

EARLY IN THE afternoon on June 5, three casinos in Delaware began taking wagers on the outcomes of individual games in a variety of sports--the first time such bets were [...]

FOR MANY OF the roughly 600,000 Americans to be released from prison this year, the best predictor of whether they become law-abiding citizens is their ability to land a job. [...]

LOCATED ON THE outskirts of Philadelphia, American Keg is the type of small, blue-collar manufacturing business that might earn praise from President Donald Trump. It's the only remaining American manufacturer [...]

WHEN MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL Inc. was considering relocating its global headquarters from Baltimore to Northern Virginia in 1999, Maryland handed over $44 million in grants to keep the hotel chain in [...]

Sure, you read Plato's Republic in college, but how much do you really remember? Did you know that a 12th century French poem, 'The Song of Roland,' influenced J.R.R. Tolkien's [...]

A PLAN TO tap reserves on the far-flung northern coast of Alaska is expected to produce about 80 million tons of liquid natural gas (LNG) over the next 20 years--but [...]

If you think tensions between America and Iran date only to Iran's 1979 revolution and the subsequent hostage crisis, filmmaker Taghi Amirani invites you to look further back in Coup [...]

CONGRESS PASSED ITS first ever standalone bipartisan marijuana legalization bill in 2019. The House of Representatives voted in September to approve the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, a [...]

A darkness hangs over The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Netflix's prequel to the wonderfully weird 1982 Jim Henson film. The original movie still stands as a technical masterpiece amid [...]

THERE ARE 80 seats in the California Assembly and 40 seats in the California Senate. The last time the Golden State adjusted the size of its legislature, in 1862, there [...]

OF THE 50 states, three territories, and 10 provinces that make up the United States and Canada, all but one have legalized some form of either medical or recreational cannabis. [...]