After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.

Donald Trump is setting records. His war on Iran is certainly the stupidest war in American history—and that’s saying something—and Trump has now lost it more quickly than any previous war. It took 20 ...

The latest No Kings marches attracted a record eight million people. Most of them were of an advanced age that suggested they personally remembered the 1960s.

The 118th Congress set time and page limits for environmental impact statements in 2023, and forced through approval of a contested fracked gas pipeline in West Virginia; last year’s Big Beautiful ...

It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.

Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.

More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.

But in the past few weeks, and the past few hours, Trump has found a way to sound even tougher, more belligerent, more ...

The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake “death panels” that the right ...

Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and “have no reason” to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.

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Wall Street wants you to believe AI is to blame for the incipient credit crisis. But the crappy software loans spooking investors are the products of old-economy greed and brazen collusion.