Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 10, 2026
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Executive & Legislative · Nov 10, 2026
Hegseth Called His Impeachment a "Farce" at a Pentagon Podium Built for Exactly This Kind of Day
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 10, 2026
Republicans Just Chose Their Leader for the Minority by Promoting the Guy Who Got Them There
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 10, 2026
FDA Finally Puts the "May Blur Your Vision" Fine Print on the Miracle Weight Loss Drugs
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 10, 2026
Michigan Voted 81% to Kick Utility Money Out of Politics. The Utilities Sued Before the Ink Was Dry.
Read story →Executive & Legislative · Nov 9, 2026
Massie Forces a House Vote to Impeach Pete Hegseth With Eight Articles, and Suddenly Everyone's a Constitutional Lawyer Again
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 9, 2026
The CFTC Just Ordered Eight Unregistered Forex Pitchmen to the Bench, and the Penalty Is Apparently Just Not Being Allowed Back in the Game
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 9, 2026
Mississippi's Senate Race Is Still Counting: Colom's Lead Hits 2,500 and Nobody Knows How Many Ballots Are Left
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 9, 2026
The Election You Think Is Over Isn't: Certification Week Starts Now
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 9, 2026
FinCEN Slams the Door on MEXC, Then Quietly Shreds the Paperwork Behind It
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 7, 2026
EPA Green-Lights Pollution Piggybacking: Arizona Can Now Trade Tailpipe Credits for Smokestack Permits
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 7, 2026
The Gavel Scramble: Democrats Set Leadership Elections as Jeffries Makes the Speaker Bid Official
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 6, 2026
Michigan Broke Its Midterm Turnout Record. Now Comes the Part Nobody Tweets About.
Read story →Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs · Nov 5, 2026
Five Tankers, a Tugboat, and a Minefield: The Strait of Hormuz Didn't Get the Election Memo
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 5, 2026
Two Senate Races Are Still Counting, and Mississippi Brought a Knife to a Recount Fight
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 5, 2026
Democrats Won on Everything. Now They Want a National Data Center Pause, Too.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 5, 2026
Recount Season Opens: Florida Gets a Machine Recount Trigger, Mississippi Gets No Recount Law at All
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 5, 2026
Congratulations, Billion-Dollar Advisers: You're Officially "Small" Now
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 4, 2026
America's Election-Night Receipt: One Blue Congress, Four Governorships, Zero Sympathy
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 4, 2026
The EPA Just Told Factory Farms: Nobody's Counting Anymore
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 3, 2026
The Labor Department Finally Made PBMs Show Their Receipts. The Rebates Were Hiding in Plain Sight the Whole Time.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 3, 2026
The DOJ Sent 1,000 Election Monitors to All 50 States for the First Time. Mostly to Cities. Guess Which Ones.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 3, 2026
The Supreme Court Looked at the DOJ's Ballot-Seizure Wishlist and Said: No Dissent, Just No
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 3, 2026
Two Vote Centers Blinked, a Million Ballots Didn't: Maricopa County Opens Election Day Telling America to Calm Down
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 3, 2026
The FCC Just Erased a 57-Year-Old Reporting Rule While You Were Busy Voting
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 2, 2026
57 Million Americans Already Voted, and 23 States Blew Past 2022. The Campaigns Can Stop Yelling Now.
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 2, 2026
The EPA Wants to Scrap the Program That Lets Anyone Report Giant Methane Leaks. The Oil Industry Sends Its Regards.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 2, 2026
A Democratic Congresswoman Endorsed the Republican for Senate Two Days Before the Election. The Party's Response Was a Single Word: "Betrayal."
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 2, 2026
The Day Before the Election, the DOJ Asked the Supreme Court to Seize 20,000 Ballots. Sure. Why Not.
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Nov 2, 2026
"Unsafe or Unsound" Finally Means Something: Your Bank Regulator Just Got a Rulebook
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Nov 2, 2026
Seven Races, One Caveat: The Final NYT/Siena Poll Has Democrats Ahead Everywhere and Sure of Almost Nothing
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 31, 2026
Half a Million Louisianans Voted Early — Somebody Tell the Campaigns the Election Already Started
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 31, 2026
Your Spare Parts Now Get Graded: CMS Decides Organs Should Actually Reach People
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 30, 2026
$23 Million vs. One Swing District: The WA-03 Race Has Become a Super PAC Food Fight
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 30, 2026
Twenty-Eight Years of We'll Get to It: FDA Finally Rewrites Baby Formula Rules
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 29, 2026
DHS Just Banned Imports From China's Biggest Genomics Companies, and Your Sequencing Data's Supply Chain Just Got Political
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 29, 2026
Alaska Has Two Dan Sullivans on the Ballot and Now Everyone From the DOJ to the House Oversight Committee Has an Opinion About It
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 29, 2026
The DOJ Subpoenaed California's Election Officials, Because Apparently Losing in Court Is Just a Prompt to Try Harder
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 29, 2026
Your Flight Price Is Watching You: The FTC Just Ordered Nine Giants to Explain Their Pricing Secrets
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 29, 2026
Five Days Out, the Senate Map Has Stopped Making Sense: Talarico Leads in Texas and Nobody Leads in Kansas
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 28, 2026
Washington's Top Election Official Looked at the DOJ's Noncitizen Voter List and Found Actual Citizens on It, So the Ballots Stay
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 28, 2026
The CFTC Is Suing Utah to Protect Your Right to Bet on Elections, and Federal Preemption Has Never Sounded This Exciting
Read story →Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs · Oct 28, 2026
Top News Review: Overnight Developments (Oct 28, 2026)
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 28, 2026
EPA Declares War on the Word "Methane": $45 Billion in "Savings," One Planet Not Consulted
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 28, 2026
Texas Two-Step: Trump Rallies Twice in One Day for Ken Paxton, and Lubbock Lines Up Around the Block for the Other Guy
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 27, 2026
The EPA's Own Watchdog Is Now Investigating the EPA's East Palestine Response, and the Irony Wrote Itself
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 27, 2026
The Final Pre-Election Poll Hands Democrats an 8-Point Lead, and Nobody Who Remembers 2016 Is Celebrating Yet
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 27, 2026
Shelf Says $2.75, Register Says $5: FTC Finally Asks Dollar General Which Part of "Dollar" It Doesn't Understand
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 27, 2026
Texas Just Cast 4.5 Million Ballots Before Halloween, and Somebody Spent $490 Million to Interrupt Them
Read story →Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs · Oct 26, 2026
The Mecca Pact Kids Show Up in Tehran: Can Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkiye Talk Iran Off the Ledge?
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 26, 2026
FCC's New Robocall Rule: Reply STOP, But Only If They Tell You How First
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 26, 2026
The Feds Want 20,000 Ballots Seized Nine Days Before an Election — On a Sunday, No Less
Read story →Geopolitics & Foreign Affairs · Oct 25, 2026
Venezuela's Nobel Laureate Just Walked Back Into the Country That exiled Her. She Wants One Thing: an Election Date.
Read story →Public Policy & Regulatory · Oct 25, 2026
The $8 Billion Farm Bailout Announced Before the Election Pays Out After It. Diesel Costs Say Thanks for Playing.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 25, 2026
Polls Say Democratic Sweep. The Map Says: Hold On. Nine Days to the Midterms.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 25, 2026
The 9th Circuit Got Dragged in on a Sunday to Quarantine 20,000 Ballots. Even Trump's Own Appointee Asked "How?"
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 25, 2026
Ballot Quarantine, Explained: What the DOJ's 48-Hour Letters Actually Demand
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 24, 2026
The Justice Department Just Sued to Stop an Election From Being Certified. Read That Again.
Read story →Campaigns & Elections · Oct 24, 2026