Fact check: Sticking together still won’t get Republicans to the magic number.

Good evening. We head into the weekend 11 days from a government shutdown deadline, and the odds of federal agencies being shuttered jumped today as the Senate rejected a pair of funding bills. Here's ...

Good evening. A government shutdown at the end of the month is looking increasingly likely as Republicans barrel ahead with their plan for a seven-week stopgap spending bill, teeing up a House vote ...

U.S. employers created just 22,000 new jobs and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.3% in August, ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a broad ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican and ...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you, and thank you to the Center for the National Interest for honoring me with this invitation. I would like to talk today about how to develop a new foreign ...

They may not like how he went about it, but most Americans approve of President Obama’s immigration order. That could change. As word leaks out about the potential cost of granting millions of low ...

President Donald Trump’s effort to raise tariffs on trading partners around the world will reduce global trade and raise inflation if the levies stay in place, according to a new report from the ...