President Trump told reporters Sunday that he has decided who he will nominate as the next leader of the Federal Reserve, but ...

Happy Monday! The Supreme Court signaled today that it is likely to take another step to expand presidential power by overturning a 90-year-old precedent that limited a president's ability to fire ...

Happy Tuesday! The political world will be watching the results tonight of a special election in Tennessee's 7th congressional district, where Republican Matt Van Epps is expected to win a race to ...

Good evening. President Trump said Wednesday that he is pardoning Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, who have been charged with taking bribes from foreign entities. While ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

Not much unites the activist Left and activist Right, and not much ever has. After the near-collapse of the fiscal sector in 2008, though, populist movements on both sides found momentum in opposition ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a broad ...

The national debt topped $37 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department reported Tuesday, even as customs duties soared to $28 billion in July due to President Trump’s increased tariffs on ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Fresh off his surprisingly close challenge of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries – and her ignominious defeat in the general election – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the leader of progressive ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

What would it cost to arm more teachers is America’s schools, as President Trump has proposed? The Washington Post’s Philip Bump did some back-of-the-envelope math to try to find the answer. Bump ...