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President Trump’s Middle East trip was a wasted opportunity to secure major progress on a diplomatic solution to Iran’s ...
By selling out national parks and other public lands, the Trump administration is endangering some of America’s great travel ...
“SNAP is an excellent tool to combat recessions, but the House Republican plan weakens the program’s ability to respond to economic downturns and limits states’ flexibility to provide food assistance ...
House Republicans’ proposals would lead to 14 million people becoming uninsured, forcing hospitals and other health care ...
A new Center for American Progress analysis shows that large shares of working women—both mothers and married women without cohabitating children—continue to be breadwinners for their families.
A new analysis shows that 27,000 retailers in areas with the highest shares of SNAP participants would be the most likely to bear the brunt of proposed drastic cuts to food assistance. Retailers ...
The United States needs a new ocean conservation strategy. Climate change is causing rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and increased storm damage, 1 while habitat destruction and ...
The Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have taken a chainsaw to the federal government, haphazardly cutting benefits and services to retirees ...
190 rural hospitals in 34 Medicaid expansion states are at immediate risk of closure. Slashing Medicaid could push them over the edge. More than 66 million Americans live in rural areas, according ...
Since the founding of the United States, domestic deployment of the military has been a move of last resort; that may be about to change. With President Trump now in office, it is worth taking a ...
The polio vaccine is among the immunizations that today’s children routinely receive. Before that vaccine became available in the 1950s, thousands of U.S. children died from polio every year, 11 ...
A thriving education system is essential for the strength of the United States. Education supports the country’s national security, global competitiveness, and democracy. In 1957, when the ...