Browsing: Politics & Policy

It was a Tuesday, January 29, 1850, and Sen. Henry Clay had set himself the none-too-modest goal of solving the…

Scott Bessent may well be the most consequential secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton – not simply because of…

From Friday’s decision in Watts v. Jones, by Seventh Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook, joined by Chief Judge Michael Brennan and…

There have been plenty of dramatic story lines in the contest to choose a successor to term-limited California governor Gavin…

More than $30,000 in cash seized from two Indiana massage parlors is missing. Police seized the money in November 2023…

The United Kingdom’s interior ministry is prohibiting two progressive commentators, Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, from visiting the country to…

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE).…

From Wenzler v. U.S. Coast Guard, decided today by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Amy St. Eve…

James Talarico got the opponent he – and the Democratic party – wanted, but flipping Texas blue means winning blue-collar…

Judge Eleanor Ross, who serves on the federal bench in Atlanta, engaged in multiple acts of misconduct. She carried on…