Laboratories of Democracy is a series that looks at the nation’s most intriguing experiments in local policy. The policy: public banks Where: North Dakota In place since: 1919 The problem: There’s a legislative fight brewing ...
Who had “proroguing Parliament” on their Brexit bingo card? On Wednesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked Queen Elizabeth II to suspend — otherwise known as “prorogue” — Parliament until October 14, in what very ...
“Vice President Biden is in excellent physical condition,” Joe Biden’s physician said in a written statement. “He is more than capable of handling the rigors of the campaign and the office for which he is ...
When it comes to President Trump and trade, it’s been all pain, no gain. Last week began with China retaliating against a planned 10 percent tariff on $300 billion of its exports by letting its ...
A deadly opening attack. Nearly untraceable, ruthless proxies spreading chaos on multiple continents. Costly miscalculations. And thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — killed in a conflict that would dwarf the war in Iraq. Welcome ...
Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State University law professor, is the author of Presidential Elections and Majority Rule, to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. When Senator Elizabeth Warren recently called for ...
A tentative deal between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be finalized over the next two days at their summit in Vietnam has emerged — and while it may still ...
It appears special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia could be coming to a close in the coming weeks, or even days. Which means Congress may soon have ...
President Donald Trump just blinked on the government shutdown. But his standoff with congressional Democrats doesn’t appear to be headed to a resolution anytime soon. On Saturday, in remarks billed as a “major announcement” on ...
What’s the best way to fight racism and extremism? The impulse to dismiss extremists as unreachable fanatics is strong and at times justifiable. But perhaps it’s not always the most effective means of combating them. ...
