The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a $1.2 trillion spending package and President Trump quickly signed it, ending the partial government shutdown that started Saturday and launching a 10-day ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday laid out three major reforms that Democrats are demanding as they look to restrain Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and avoid a partial ...

Growing outrage over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions — further inflamed by Saturday’s ICE killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and by the Trump administration’s version of ...

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan announced an immediate drawdown of 700 immigration agents from Minneapolis, leaving a federal force of about 2,000 agents and officers in Minnesota. Gov. Tim ...

It’s no secret that North Dakota’s oil industry is booming. Advancements in hydraulic fracturing have helped Western North Dakota experience month after month of record-setting oil production, making ...

President Obama vetoed a bill last week that would have limited the taxpayer money spent on expense accounts for former presidents. The bill, titled the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act and ...

We hear a lot about government debt, but what about government assets? Jill Mislinski of Advisor Perspectives looked at the Federal Reserve's financial accounts data and found that student loans make ...

The United States established the Civil Service 142 years ago, in response to the massive corruption that followed from the previous “spoils system” in Washington DC. Prior to that, all federal ...

The Trump administration has asked for a record $81.1 billion in “black budget” funding for U.S. intelligence programs next year, The Washington Times reports. The request includes $59.9 billion for ...

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 broad ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is beginning to receive book of the year awards, but has it changed anything within economics? There are two ways in which is has, one involving ...