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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 [...]

The article presents the discussion on historical link between economic instability, particularly inflation, and social unrest, citing past examples like the Russian peasant revolts and the French Revolution. Topics include impact of inflation on political and social instability, historical instances of unrest linked to economic crises; and modern parallels such as the COVID-19 panic and recent consumer outrage.

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 article delves into the history and eventual demise of the Federal Tea Board, which for nearly a century oversaw the tasting and regulation of imported tea in the United States. It mentions that the peculiar methods and longevity of the Federal Tea Board, aimed at ensuring tea quality, highlight the challenges of eliminating governmental programs, as its persistence until official termination in 2023 raises questions about the inertia of government initiatives.

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 [...]

The article explores how Florida successfully addressed its historical vote-counting issues, stemming from the infamous 2000 election, by implementing bipartisan reforms. Topics include the 2000 election chaos, Florida's post-2000 reforms, the state's proactive approach to continuous improvement, and the importance of state-led election reforms to ensure efficient, accurate, and controversy-free processes.

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 [...]

The article analyzes how SpaceX Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk can help U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump cut trillions out of the federal budget. It refers to the pre-pandemic spending baseline as a realistic approach to reduce deficits. It suggests a repeal of executive orders that expanded food stamp eligibility, increased spending on Medicaid payments to managed care providers and granted student debt forgiveness, as well as the need to remove state government subsidies.

The article critiques former U.S. President Joe Biden's trade policy, highlighting inconsistencies between his past understanding of tariffs and his actions in office. Topics discussed include Biden's initial stance on tariffs and trade, his failure to reverse U.S. President Donald Trump-era tariff hikes, and the contradictions in his policies regarding American manufacturing and electric vehicle affordability.

The article focuses on the approaching fiscal cliff and the critical fiscal decisions U.S. Congress must make by the end of 2025. Topics discussed include the potential expiration of individual tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the challenge of addressing growing budget deficits, and differing policy proposals from think tanks regarding tax rates and spending reductions.

The article focuses on the argument for abolishing the National Park Service (NPS) in favor of privatizing national parks to improve accessibility and maintenance. Topics include the inefficiencies and restrictions imposed by the NPS that hinder the development of visitor facilities, the potential benefits of private investment and management in enhancing park experiences, and the success of the U.S. Forest Service's approach in balancing preservation with commercial use.

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 [...]

The article offers information on recent improvements in trends related to bee populations and human health, including a rise in bee colonies and life expectancy. Topics discussed include the recovery of the bee population since 2007; factors contributing to rising life expectancy, such as the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and declines in opioid overdose deaths; and the societal strength required to reverse negative trends.

The article focuses on the Joe Biden administration's escalation of the trade war with China by targeting the movement of goods and money across borders, blurring the lines between economic policy and military action. Topics include using trade policy as a strategic asset to impose costs on adversaries, restricting outward-bound capital investments, and the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in scrutinizing foreign investments.

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 [...]

The article focuses on Ron DeSantis, a highly influential American politician and former baseball player.Topics include his early years playing Little League baseball and later at Yale and Harvard and serving in the Navy JAG Corps; a rising star in the Republican Party, known for his conservative beliefs and anti-woke stance; and is considered a potential candidate for the White House.

The article reviews the revival of the play "Cabaret," starring Eddie Redmayne and Adam Lambert, at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City.

The article reports on the proposed election reforms on the 2024 ballot across several U.S. states that were blocked by elections. It informs about the ballot measures rejected in Colorado, Idaho and Montana that sought to replace partisan primary elections with a single-nonpartisan primary election and the rejected ballot initiatives in Arizona and Oregon that aimed to implement choice voting. The issues of partisan gerrymandering and election control by political parties are discussed.

The article focuses on the ambiguity surrounding the definition of the "working class" in American politics and its implications for both parties. Topics include the historical origins of the term during the Industrial Revolution, differing interpretations of the working class among political scientists and Marxist scholars, and the disconnect between traditional notions of class and contemporary self-identification among various socioeconomic groups.

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 [...]