Killing the penny makes economic sense for the government and some businesses, yet it also highlights a deeper truth: Efficiency tends to reward the already efficient. For many, however, even when the change is small, every cent still counts.
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Whether you want to buy a home or access the stored wealth in the home you own in Philadelphia, you are disadvantaged if you are a person of color or if the home is located in a mostly Black or Hispanic neighborhood.
Officially, ICE says its data collection would focus on people who are already linked to ongoing cases or potential threats. In practice, the net is far wider.
Oversight is the ability of Congress to ensure that the laws it passes are faithfully executed. This generally means asking questions, demanding information, convening hearings and holding the executive branch accountable for its actions.
Congress didn’t exactly lose its tariff power; it gave it away.
Where’s Congress? The institution is unwilling to assert itself as an equal branch of government.
Even if the White House clings to its current counter-drugs and counterterrorism narrative, all evidence points to a probable failure at regime change.
The new Russian Burevestnik missile has been under development for over 20 years. While few technical details are known, Russian officials claim that it can maneuver to bypass antimissile and air defense systems.
Architecture and heritage are never just bricks and mortar. They are instruments of memory, identity and power. And Trump knows this.
The end of American democracy is not a foregone conclusion, despite the unprecedented rate of its decline. It will depend, in part, on the choices made by every American.
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl saga may actually become an important political moment.
Trump's revenge prosecution against Letitia James is based on a law that is rarely prosecuted and which has resulted in even fewer convictions.
The combination of free speech and gun rights makes the growing problem of political violence much harder to solve.
If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally characteristic of dictatorship.
Given that previous government layoffs specifically targeted health programs, more permanent reductions in programs that affect health care may be on the way.
Kash Patel’s tenure rests solely upon pleasing the president. If accountability is to happen, it will have to come from Congress, whose Republican majority has so far not exercised its power to hold Trump or his administration accountable.
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