The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.

Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could soon bring it back.

After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes. Late last year, ...

This is why Congress should develop in-house science whizzes before throwing the federal government’s weight at whatever the businessmen say they’d like. Whether it’s drawing up new regulation, or ...

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has legions of U.S. fans, because of his most un-Canadian moxie in standing up to President Trump. In his latest move, Carney has even enlisted the EU to invent an ...

The Democratic base and working-class swing voters want action on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid and the expanded monthly Child Tax Credit.

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One bill in particular would threaten $500 billion in federal spending every year. Several House Republicans in tough races supported it.

Eric Flores is an Army veteran and lawyer running to unseat Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in Texas District 34.

Ahmed Soliman, a 30-year-old gay immigrant from Egypt who had lived in Arizona since he was a child, was arrested by police in Equatorial Guinea Friday, days after speaking to reporters about police ...