The Fed said it’s ready to act to ‘sustain the expansion.’ The latest jobs report suggests it may have to act soon.
Police officers loyal to the Houthi rebels march during a military parade in Sanaa, Yemen in July 2017. The placards read: ‘Allah is the greatest. Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.’
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Successful policy accomplishments are rarely considered newsworthy, but there are plenty of cases where government policy has improved our lives for the better.
Sanctions are making life increasingly difficult for ordinary Iranians, such as those in Isfahan.
Doug Hostetter
President Cyril Ramaphosa has revived a presidential advisory unit shut down by his predecessor. He needs it if he is to use his power effectively to improve his government’s policy coherence.
Biometrics like retinal scans is a new frontier in the privacy wars.
Reuters/Mike Blake
States like California have been at the forefront of privacy innovation in recent decades. A possible federal law could bring their experimentation to a halt, harming consumers.
The trade war has high costs for both the U.S and China.
Reuters/Petar Kujundzic
An economist explains why the US and Chinese governments are most likely to dig in their heels rather than find a compromise to end the costly trade conflict.
Trump’s tax returns have been a rallying cry for Democrats since the 2016 campaign.
Reuters/Mark Makela
While the Treasury secretary says House Democrats lack a ‘legitimate’ reason for demanding Trump’s tax returns, a former IRS attorney explains that the law says otherwise.
Facebook allows advertisers to target low-income Americans.
(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Here are some key factors of success to consider for western government taking on large projects – following these will help prevent the routine fails we often see.
Cohen testified that the Trump Organization is more about Trump than doing business.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
While Trump may be an extreme example, much of the conduct Cohen highlighted reflects attitudes and actions commonplace among public companies.
U.S. federal government employees, contract workers and other demonstrators march during a ‘Rally to End the Shutdown’ in D.C. on Jan. 10.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The initial aim of the 1937 Foreign Agents Registration Act was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy. But that law is startlingly relevant to the US now.
President Jimmy Carter extended the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978.
Reuters
In the #MeToo era and with more women entering Congress, activists are hopeful another state could ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. But is it too late?
Democracies survive if political norms and traditions are upheld. So the recent actions of GOP legislators in Wisconsin and other states to hamstring incoming Democrats put democracy at risk.
Demonstrators march down Paris’ Champs-Elysees Dec. 8.
AP Photo/Michel Euler
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
The current and former presidents at the funeral for George H.W. Bush in Washington.
AP/Carolyn Kaster
American military personnel must pass a fitness for duty exam before they serve. Nuclear weapons handlers undergo a rigorous screening process. Shouldn’t the president also undergo such exams?
Democrat Nancy Pelosi spoke in D.C. the night of the midterm elections.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst