The workers’ compensation system is broken. This century-old system, the first component of the social safety net, was created to maintain the income of workers who are hurt on the job, and to ensure ...

The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.

If there’s a problem with the American economy, it’s only because some people have to work for a living. Income from investment—the primary source of income for roughly 1 percent of Americans—is ...

What do the Brooklyn Dodgers, Houston Oilers, Seattle SuperSonics, Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders, and Oakland Athletics have in common? They’re among the many professional sports teams that have ...

The Texas senator has every reason to vote no, including Trump’s career-ending support for Ken Paxton in the Texas primary.

The 1997 Flores ruling requires immigrant children be released from detention after 20 days. Trump is keeping some for as long as 323 days, new filings in a lawsuit state.

Five years ago, a manager for a Virginia gasoline distributor opened an invoice for more than 200,000 phantom gallons of gas they had no record of selling. Truckers on contract with a chain of gas ...

The Northwoods logger and former state senator out-organized everyone to take Graham Platner’s place on the ballot.

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So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is, by way of the manifold consequences of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert ...

One mother posts a video of her older son suffering a medical emergency and another of her newborn with his private area exposed. Another mom who admits to sharing the content that garners the most ...

A year after Trump ripped $1 trillion out of the American health care system, hundreds of hospitals have closed and millions of people are without health insurance. The majority are in urban areas.