The ongoing government shutdown is now the third-longest in modern U.S. history, topped only by a 34-day funding lapse in late 2018 and early 2019 and a 21-day fight in 1995 — and this shutdown, now ...

U.S. businesses have absorbed most of the cost of the tariffs imposed by President Trump so far, but the burden of that cost will shift to consumers in the coming months as the full range of import ...

Happy Thursday! President Trump today hailed the "momentous breakthrough" of a ceasefire agreement that could end the two-year-long war in Gaza and return all Israeli hostages held by Hamas. "We ended ...

Good evening. The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump administration to unilaterally freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid, delivering another win for President Trump in his push for more power ...

On Day 10 of the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought announced that the mass firings of federal workers have begun, dramatically escalating the pain of the political ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons. Saturday ...

Whether you believe in handwriting analysis or not, it’s fun to hear how graphologists interpret the signatures of famous people. In September 2015, Politico Magazine asked Michelle Dresbold, who ...