Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Instead of isolating the CFPB from Congress' budget-making authority, Warren and former President Barack Obama made it easier for a president to effectively shut it down.
It’s hard to tell how serious his threats are—and maybe that’s by design.
President Donald Trump ordered the government to prepare 30,000 beds at Guantanamo to house undocumented migrants.
From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.
Errol Morris and Jacob Soboroff discuss their new documentary about the family separation policy implemented during Trump’s first term.
From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape.
Changing migration patterns, outdated policy tools, and growing presidential power made it inevitable.
The New York Times contributor discusses the Democratic National Convention and the rhetoric of "freedom" on Just Asking Questions.
Plus: Obama endorses building more housing, why CEOs are paid so much, and more...
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton bring millenarianism—and messianism—back.
War on Terror fears and the CIA’s torture program kept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of civilian courts—and prevented true justice from being served.
It's good to hear a candidate actually talk about our spending problem. But his campaign promises would exacerbate it.
We could grow our way out of our debt burden if politicians would limit spending increases to just below America's average yearly economic growth. But they won't even do that.
Many of the Washington hawks calling for war with Iran had sworn up and down that more pressure was not a path to war.
Despite their informal nature, those norms have historically constrained U.S. fiscal policy. But they're eroding.
The same tactics used to justify drone strikes are now being used to demonize immigrant men.
Over the last several years, they have worked nonstop to ease the tax burden of their high-income constituents.
The best reforms would correct the real problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration, as well as removing all artificial barriers to building more homes.
Since Congress won't cut spending, an independent commission may be the only way to rein in the debt.
Politicians are throwing laws at the wall and seeing what sticks.
The Center has gotten rich in part thanks to its "hate map," which smears many good people.
Sometimes he calls for freedom, and sometimes he preaches something darker.
In 10 years, the programs' funds will be insolvent. Over the next 30 years, they will run a $116 trillion shortfall.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
From George Santos to Joe Biden, résumé padding is unacceptable. But it's all the lies about legislation we can't afford.
"When it comes to problems happening in America, [the NBA is] the first organization saying, 'This is wrong,'" says the former professional basketball player. But then they're silent for victims of torture.
Thanks, but we lived through the lies of their administrations that they used to sell us war and intrusive government meddling in health care.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
Netflix's The G Word tries and fails to restore faith in big government.
From student debt cancellation to green subsidies, the White House is giving handouts paid for by hardworking lower-wage Americans.
"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.
Adam Conover and President Barack Obama want to unruin the federal government. But they’re not really willing to truly consider that it’s too big and too wasteful.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
When governments can de-bank you, you are not really free.
Habitual debt busts are one Latin American export that is better left on the dock.
Biden should denounce Cuba’s communist tyranny while pushing for more free trade with Cubans.
They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
"You don’t get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
Citizens and companies increasingly cannot count on the stability of the law when making decisions about their lives and businesses.
Another new Democratic administration, another hollow promise to discover hundreds of billions of unreported tax obligations under the national mattress.
The government's coronavirus-related unemployment benefits are encouraging some to stay unemployed.
Biden tonight, like LBJ in 1964, Ford in 1975, Reagan in 1981, and Obama in 2009, is ready to make some terraforming asks to a pliant Congress.
Anne-Marie Slaughter hasn’t given up on intervention and the “responsibility to protect” doctrine.
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