Making money is hard. Just ask Donald Trump. Back in 2022, House Democrats released years of the then-former and now-current president’s tax returns, which showed that Trump the entrepreneur was significantly less successful than The Art of the Deal would have you believe. They painted a picture of a floundering businessman who was doing his…
In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions, than it did for cases argued in open court. These decisions, which make up the court’s “shadow docket,” are a fast-track way…
The DSA bloc in the Assembly can become a significant chunk of the Democratic majority. Ad Policy Congressional candidates Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier raised their hands with Mayor Zohran Mamdani (in the Knicks shirt) during a Get Out the Vote rally at King’s Theater on June 18, 2026, in New York…
Americans finally got an explanation. If only Republicans would stop trying to kill access to mental-health care for everyone else Rep. Tom Kean is back in the House after a mysterious 117-day absence during which the New Jersey Republican missed at least 100 votes. He, finally, has provided an explanation as to why he disappeared…
"Under President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, America is safer than it has been in over a century," a White House press release declared in January, claiming the "monumental turnaround" stemmed from Trump "reversing the chaos and carnage unleashed by Radical Left Democrats" and by his administration "ridding the streets of savage criminal illegal aliens, backing…
It took less than a day for the detective to give up on the case. A patrol officer had reported a harrowing, violent midnight rape in a Syracuse, New York, park. Hospital records recounted that the victim, an 18-year-old freshman at Syracuse University, was “crying uncontrollably.” Her face was bruised, and she had scratches on…
In a pair of twin rulings, the court undermined the independence of the key independent agencies—except one. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump during a kickoff celebration for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington. (Bonnie Cash / UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images) On Monday, the Supreme Court vastly expanded the president’s…
Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, Donald Trump has diverted a significant chunk of government resources toward the supposed beautification of the nation’s capital. He “fixed” fountains, gilded statues in his favorite shade of gold, and planned self-aggrandizing monuments. Now, with the semiquincentennial only a few days away, it’s clear the president’s year of lavish renovation…
Every year, about 90% of Central Oregon’s Deschutes River disappears into networks of canals and pipes traversing high desert. Between April and October, what’s left in this major river — one of the largest spring-fed waterways in the U.S. — looks more like a creek trickling out of Bend, Oregon. Six irrigation districts — quasi-public…
At an Open Markets Institute conference, economic populism was on the agenda. Ad Policy Democratic Senators Chris Murphy and Chris Van Hollen depart a briefing at the Capitol in Washington, DC, in June 2025. (Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg) The Open Markets Institute, a DC clearinghouse of antitrust policy and legal strategy, didn’t lack for ambition…
