Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance premiums have steadily increased, as has healthcare’s proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP). In employer-sponsored insurance, escalating premiums…

A bill to end the record-breaking U.S. government shutdown is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk after more than 42 days. Federal funding legislation aimed at opening the government passed…

The record-breaking U.S. government shutdown appears to be on a path to finally ending after 43 days. Federal funding legislation aimed at opening the government survived a key test vote…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that President Donald Trump ‘remains in exceptional physical health’ after concerns have swirled in recent months, including when the president received an…

Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump’s ‘bulldozer’ approach to public health, calling it a necessary force that ‘just had to happen,’ during remarks at Wednesday’s Make America Healthy…

While waiting for the hard copy to arrive, I downloaded the audio version of Kamala Harris’s bestseller to get a sense of things. Who narrates it, I wondered — surely…

Strategic Trade Liberalization and the United States’ Future in the Asia-Pacific Region Executive Summary Since the nineteenth century, the United States has been a significant economic and political presence in…

Capitalism as an ideology is on the ropes, especially among young people. A troubling 2025 Cato survey found that 62 percent of young Americans (age 18-29) hold a “favorable view”…

Senators believe that after reaching a deal to end the longest shutdown on record, they won’t be in the same position early next year. The bipartisan package that advanced from…

Frustration is boiling over among Democratic ranks against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after walking away from the longest government shutdown on record largely empty-handed. Some argue that Schumer…