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* Tweaks to the phaseout of clean energy tax credits. The Senate plan reportedly would allow more projects to take advantage ...
Good evening! On this date 95 years ago, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on thousands of imported goods in a bid to protect domestic jobs and ...
The House Appropriations Committee on Monday released Republicans’ proposed defense spending bill for 2026, moving ahead in the absence of a detailed budget request from the White House.
President Donald Trump on Monday highlighted a proposal for a new, federally funded benefit that would automatically create investment accounts for every baby born in the U.S. over the four years ...
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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 ...
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.
Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...
Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican ...
President Biden downplayed the likelihood of a recession in an interview with the Associated Press last week, and he repeated the point over the holiday weekend, citing a notable former Treasury ...
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.
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 ...