Don’t Drive a Diesel? We’re Still Paying for It Most of us will never pump a single gallon of diesel in our lives. Yet, every one of us is about to pay for it anyway. Diesel hit a record…
The IRS Cuts Were Supposed to Save Money. They Lost It, and The Wealthy Just Got a Free Pass Somebody at the Treasury Department finally did the math on last year’s IRS layoffs, and the answer came back upside…
Who Decided the Post Office Should Be a Gatekeeper for Our Votes? A tray of 10,000 mail ballots arrives at a postal facility. A worker scans a sample of roughly 400. If one barcode fails to read, the entire…
The Generation That Doubts America’s Future Loving your country has become a more complicated feeling for the young people who are supposed to inherit it. A new Sine Institute survey conducted in late July by American University researchers found…
Trump Touts Major Venezuela Oil Pact as Energy Experts Warn of Years-Long Delays Gas prices at the pump tell a story that politicians hope voters never read all the way to the end. On Friday, President Trump announced a…
The Federal Reserve’s Kevin Warsh Faces His First Real Test at Jackson Hole as Inflation Sticks and Markets Waver Around 10 in the morning Eastern time today, at a lodge beneath the Teton mountains in Wyoming, a man most…
ICE Traded Raids for Traffic Stops. Arrests Hit a Record Anyway This administration did it again. It snuck something past us that they hoped we wouldn’t notice. They did this by not showcasing National Guard convoys rolling into a…
The Mail Voting Order Rests on Numbers the DHS Won’t Defend Somewhere in a county warehouse in California, stacks of ballot envelopes are sitting on pallets, printed weeks ago, waiting to be stuffed and mailed. Jesse Salinas, the registrar…
Who Does the Justice Department Work For When a CEO Gets an Oval Office Meeting? Remember the last time you bought concert tickets? You beat the queue, you grabbed two seats before they vanished, and you felt like you…
Today’s Iran Sanctions Could Reshape Gas Prices, the China Relationship, and the War Itself The next time we fill our gas tanks, we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the final price. That number is not just…
The Number That Sets Your Mortgage Just Hit a 19-Year High Something unusual happened this week, and it deserves more of our attention than it’s getting. The United States government looked at the price of its own debt, got…
Our Grocery Bill Was Two Hours From a 50 Percent Shock There was a countdown clock (again) ticking toward midnight, and on the other side of it, who else? Trump and this time — his threat of a 50…
Meta Faces 29 States and a Possible $1.4 Trillion Penalty as Landmark Trial Opens Somewhere in Meta’s internal files sits a research study with a title that should stop every parent mid scroll. The study was called “Long Term…
The Con Is on the Ballot This Year Voters in Alaska walked into their primary today and found two Dan Sullivans waiting for them. One is the sitting Republican senator. The other is a retired schoolteacher from Petersburg whose…
New Trump Memo Would Let Private Companies Launch Cyberattacks on Foreign Criminals Before the United States had much of a navy, it had privateers, private ship captains handed government letters that made attacking enemy vessels legal. That relic of…
ICE’s Shock Glove Contract Reveals a Deeper Oversight Problem Watch the promotional videos and you’ll see grown men, trained police officers, scream and crumple to the ground. That is the sales pitch. The product is a glove that delivers…
Primary Fever Is Already Fading: What That Means for November When Oregon voters turned out at 41.9 percent for their primary, according to The Midterm Project, they set the standard: this is what it looks like when we actually…
The Government Just Decided Science is Optional, and Our Kids are the Experiment This week, the Trump administration signed an executive order to gut the childhood vaccine schedule while measles cases are surging at their highest levels in 35…
When a Senate Seat Becomes a Family Inheritance The death of Senator Lindsey Graham left South Carolina Republicans with an unusual problem. Just weeks after voters nominated him for a fifth term, the longtime Republican—who spent a quarter-century building…
When Elections Trump Peace: Netanyahu’s Calculated Rejection The moment a diplomatic breakthrough appears within reach, political survival instincts kick in. That’s what happened this past Sunday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly rejected a U.S.-backed peace plan for…
When Congress Loses Its Power There’s a constitutional crisis quietly unfolding that most of us are missing because it’s wrapped in a yearslong grudge match between a scientist and a senator. But don’t let the personalities distract us from…
While Americans Struggle, Billions Flow Into D.C. Makeovers Nobody Asked For Washington D.C. has become a construction zone in the name of transformation. Whether you see it as ambition or excess depends largely on whether you believe one person’s…
The Golden Age That Wasn’t When President Trump took office, his team promised us the economic moon: six percent growth, a factory building boom, and a restoration of American prosperity that would dwarf anything we’ve seen in recent memory….
When Geopolitics Meets Gas Prices: Why Trump’s Iran Gamble Matters to Your Wallet Lately, have you pulled into your local gas station not knowing if it will cost you 40 bucks or 60 by the time you fill your…
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Motion to Dismiss Trump Organization Lawsuit Imagine you run a business. A bank you have used for over a decade suddenly closes hundreds of your accounts, no warning, no real explanation, just…
