Last week, President Trump signed an executive order that would make it easier to include "alternative assets" like crypto, private equity, and real estate in retirement accounts. Is that a good idea?

The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to more than 1,400 staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection ...

With federal wildfire response resources nearly maxed out, President Trump says he's consolidating them into a new agency. Congress is trying to tap the brakes.

In a letter sent Friday to the heads of all 24 federal agencies, and shared exclusively with The New Republic, Oversight ...

On August 7, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order titled “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” ...

Hours after being inaugurated for his second term, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order entitled Unleashing American Energy. The Executive Order broadly states that it is the policy of ...

NPR Editor-in-Chief Edith Chapin has announced she will step down amid a challenging time for public media, which is grappling with significant funding cuts. Congress has reduced the Corporation for ...