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Happy Thursday! President Donald Trump said today that he will nominate Stephen Miran, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to temporarily fill a seat on the Federal Reserve ...

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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 ...

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The results of “the cost-sharing revolution” in health care — the decades-long shift of an increasing share of medical expenses onto patients, even for those with insurance — are not ...

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 ...

President Trump and Elon Musk have ramped up their on-again-off-again feud, with the tech mogul announcing that he has launched a new party, the America Party, after criticizing Trump’s tax and ...