The potential SCOTUS nominee qualifies his longstanding position that the children of unauthorized immigrants are citizens under the 14th Amendment when they are born in the U.S.
Proving that Jennings acted with "actual malice" might be difficult.
Many of their recommendations are well-taken.
Plus: Hackers break into Binance, Harvard student journalists wreck a Trump administration official, and more...
The California Environmental Quality Act has led to long delays, enormous costs, and special interests that use the process to stop projects they dislike.
As the election approaches, it is more clear than ever that the president values loyalty over all else.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter rejected the Justice Department's demand that California officials segregate ballots from 20,000 voters it describes as "likely noncitizens."
Voters in Colorado will decide a pair of ballot initiatives next week that could secure the state's low-tax reputation or shatter it.
The pioneering feminist was a keen student of the classical liberal theorist.
People don't build great wealth first and redeem it later through good works. They build it by making the world better.
The administration argues that it must detain an illegal immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for 20 years while removal proceedings occur. Is that what the law says?
The Michigan Senate candidate once dissed Obama as "fairly centrist, middle-of-the-road."
Plus: Israeli election results, Warsh might favor raising borrowing costs, and more...
Today, most of us get back much more than we paid in, and the program's costs exceed its income by billions of dollars.
Plus: Crime in Central Park, subprime mortgages for all, and more...
D.C. filers pay more in federal income tax per return than residents of any state, yet they have no representation in Congress.
Plus: How a conservative Supreme Court justice ushered in “the birth of modern zoning.”
The president says Paxton doesn’t dress, talk, or look the part. But the Texas Senate candidate has built a career on a different kind of showmanship.
Texas voters are souring on their state's growth machine and the long-ruling GOP that's claimed credit for it.
Voters hate the tariffs—and elected Republicans aren't even trying to defend the president's signature policy anymore.
The Trump administration says the state should not certify the election if the incumbent loses too narrowly.
Courts should still strike down the Section 338 tariffs and import bans that remain in place.
The proposed regulations implement the restrictions on large investor purchases of single-family homes passed by Congress this year.
Mamdani’s Commission on Government Efficiency put forward ballot proposals to cut red tape.
A lawsuit filed by The Marshall Project argues that ICE must disclose the names of immigrant detainees because you can’t check a government that won’t say who it’s holding.
A notable quote from the Argentine leader's 2024 Economist interview
Republicans are looking doomed in Michigan, Ohio, and Texas...but there's always Pennsylvania.
Plus: Kagan is still defending the Court from the “bum rap” that it is pro-Trump.
Annual tax bills make many homeowners feel more like eternal renters.
The import taxes fit a pattern of dubious legal rationales for the president's protectionist policies.
New study finds that 85 percent of "plausible scenarios" result in negative revenue for the state as wealthy residents flee.
The tariffs are illegal for multiple different reasons.
A new book imagines a new global system. How plausible are its ideas?
The justices will decide the case later this term.
Or at least change how the cost-of-living adjustment is calculated.
A leading critic of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court oultines reasons why court-packing is a bad response to its flaws.
Republican incumbent Mike Lawler and Democratic challenger Cait Conley are trying to tie each other to the AI industry and data centers.
Cutting the number of federal employees wasn't the disaster that many critics fretted about, but that wasn't the metric for success.
Bigger agencies, higher spending, and expanded workforces don't always make government more effective.
Should it be illegal to run for office against someone with your same name?
Congress has yet to address a looming funding shortfall that could leave the retirement program unable to pay 22 percent of scheduled benefits by 2032.
Entitlement spending, defense spending, and interest payments on the debt continue to climb.
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