Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.

In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.

Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders are using a rule under Delaware law to demand records.

Was it the war in Iran that killed Spirit? Joe Biden’s Justice Department? Antitrust regulation? Jet fuel? Lina Khan?! Today on the show, we demystify Spirit’s demise with William J. McGee, senior ...

One positive effect is that midsized powers are less under the sway of Washington. But they could come under the sway of China.

House lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee debated a proposal Thursday that would force state and local police to help federal agents conduct deportations or risk losing federal funding. Not only ...

The 43-day government shutdown is over, but its reverberations for millions of Americans continue. While the government was closed, the 42 million Americans who receive Supplemental Nutrition ...

Though Americans are coming to grips with the impact of artificial intelligence on their lives, there’s still a significant amount of distrust. A 2025 PDK Poll, an annual survey of American attitudes ...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, center, had the Working Families Party endorsement. Credit: Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images When the Working Families Party was founded in 1998, the idea ...

After a presidential election that saw an 82-year-old commander in chief unable to complete sentences in a debate or instill confidence in the public that he could carry out his duties, elected ...

The Hudson Tunnel Project between New York and New Jersey is officially a political nightmare en route to the midterms. Union construction workers affected by the work stoppage attend a Gateway Tunnel ...

The wreckage of the postwar economy of broad prosperity, intensified by the Democratic embrace of neoliberalism by Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama, created the backlash that led directly to ...