In the run-up to tonight's Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, the last such contest before primary voting begins, one of the big... Read More
The Left sees Donald Trump's comportment, rallies, and tweets as a new low in presidential behavior that justifies extraordinary... Read More
In March of 2019, a photo surfaced of three Ole Miss fraternity brothers posing with guns beside a bullet-riddled memorial to Emmett Till,... Read More
Each year, Americans throw out more than 12 million tons of furniture and furnishings, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Only... Read More
With middle-class wages at an all-time low, the debate over how to best boost mobility for workers rages on. According to the Pew Research... Read More
What once was routine in Congress has become rare: compromise. But going against the new norm, the House Energy & Commerce Committee... Read More
Is Joe Biden, contrary to his centrist reputation, a tax-and-spend liberal? That was the argument made by Politifact's Amy Sherman, defending... Read More
Last year in June, the New York State Senate voted to legalize mobile sports betting. For a moment, it seemed like New York was poised to... Read More
If the election were held on Valentine's Day, President Trump would have good prospects, but next November the story may be... Read More
On Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that his state would not be accepting any refugees in the coming fiscal year. He is the... Read More
Last month, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Kentucky law requiring doctors to describe ultrasound images and play fetal... Read More
The two parties in Congress don't agree on much these days. However, in the final days of December, they struck a deal that will give about 2... Read More
Divorce usually conjures negative thoughts of broken homes and acrimony but research now shows that divorce laws can actually have a positive... Read More
New York has lost nearly 1.4 million residents to the rest of the country since 2010—and largely as a result of this outflow, the... Read More
The extraction of oil and gas through the techniques of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (colloquially, “fracking”)... Read More
Bottom Line: Minnesota's 95 percent e-cigarettes tax is a natural experiment to examine the impact of e-cig taxes on smoking rates.... Read More
You've probably never heard of the most economically transformative legislation of the Trump era. Granted, it has not yet passed and it might... Read More
s recent statistics make depressingly clear, the federal government's long-term financial picture continues to deteriorate. The nation's... Read More
In 2020, the biggest headache facing Albany will be Medicaid, the state-run health plan that covers more than 6 million lower-income and... Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS — The sergeant in charge of one of the busiest Army recruiting centers in Colorado, Sergeant First Class Dustin Comes,... Read More
A few days ago, after the horrific stabbing attack on a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York, The Daily Beast ran an article by Jay Michaelson... Read More
Harvard's David Deming and Kadeem Noray have updated their work on the economic returns to education in science, technology, engineering and... Read More
Last year, lawmakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania proposed legalizing recreational marijuana in their states. A debate ensued. Some argued... Read More
You may have seen the Michelle Williams Golden Globes speech by now. Reportedly pregnant, she credited abortion for her professional success... Read More
“You probably shouldn't cook the animal whole,” Andrés told me over coffee, contemplating a whole pig he had just... Read More
For the past few years, cities and states on the West Coast have led the charge to build more dense housing and arrest fast-rising rents.... Read More
I cannot be the only person who has a hard time believing that the Iowa caucus is less than a month away. Not just because we are still in... Read More
DES MOINES — Elizabeth Warren recalled an explosive account of a meeting with Bernie Sanders in which he said he didn't believe a woman... Read More