With so many factors contributing to higher inflation, some of the challenges affecting produce prices may be too long-lasting and hard to resolve overnight.
Who gets to say what to whom? Are there any words that can justify violence? These questions polarized the country 170 years ago and continue to do so today.
The reforms in the bill do not address the main source of the nation’s housing problem: that millions of renters and homeowners lack the income necessary to cover their housing costs.
Apparently, eating meat—or not—plays a huge role in the political process, and accusations of meat avoidance, regardless of whether they’re true, can be a potent rhetorical weapon.
These efforts reflect concerted efforts to protect large corporations from consumers’ claims that products have harmed them and to prevent states from holding companies accountable when federal regulation falls short.
Members of the America’s founding generation were familiar with the concept of distinct spheres of authority between religion and government and the necessity of keeping those functions separate.
The hubbub over the Reflecting Pool holds a mirror up to assumptions about how to solve pressing environmental challenges. The idea of just engineering one’s way out of any environmental crisis has limits.
The court seems to have concluded that they can’t fight the new logic: Americans have a constitutional right to guns; Americans smoke weed; so weed can’t justify a denial of constitutional rights.
Understanding that process helps demystify the court and reveals how nine unelected justices can shape the meaning of the Constitution and, in turn, influence the everyday lives of millions of Americans.
Texas history is both the story of people who dedicated their lives to the work of advancing freedom and the story of powerful people and forces that stood against it.
Americans might expect both sides to put forward their best, brightest and most electorally compelling candidates to try to win. But thanks to polarization and negative partisanship, it isn’t always so.
The Strait of Hormuz proved to be a better deterrent than a nuclear bomb. Thousands of lives were lost to arrive back to square one. Nobody has won, though both sides will say they did.
Racist conspiracy theories still plague American politics, from baseless accusations that Barack Obama was born in Kenya to false assertions that global elites are engineering a “great replacement” of white Americans.