The shutdown fight continued without a resolution on Friday as frustrations mounted from Capitol Hill to the nation's airports and beyond. Senate Republicans rejected an offer from Democrats on a ...

Happy Thursday! Lots of history was made on this date: In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president; in 1956, Dwight Eisenhower won a second term in office; in 1984, Ronald Reagan won 49 states en ...

Prioritize Economy Over Foreign Policy, Republicans Tell Trump — Semafor Trump Orders DOJ to Probe Meatpackers as Beef Prices Soar — Bloomberg Hegseth Vows to Shake Up the Way the Pentagon Does ...

The alarming epidemic of obesity among Americans and its implications for rising public health costs have become a topic of endless fascination and speculation among public policy experts, academics ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

Will your city make aging easier? Not necessarily. Older residents of Bakersfield, California, and Lakeland, Florida, may be less than completely satisfied with the resources available in their ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons. Saturday ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he declared.

The yearlong investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email for official business while she was Secretary of State ended Tuesday with FBI Director James Comey’s declaration that the bureau ...

Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his signature on what he heralded as “a realistic tax law—which will tax all unreasonable profits, both individual and corporate.” ...

In early 2013, Derek MacDonald, a skinny 28-year-old with glasses, was living in the small town of Smith Center, Kansas, and taking care of his sick grandfather. He looked for steady work for over a ...