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As congressional Democrats dramatically scale back the most ambitious social spending bill since the 1960s, they’re placing much of the...

When Democrats first set out to expand the social safety net, they envisioned a piece of legislation as transformational as what the party...

Every once in a while a company grows so big and messy that governments fear what would happen to the broader economy if it were to fail....

On June 24, 2015, Dawn Dorland, an essayist and aspiring novelist, did perhaps the kindest, most consequential thing she might ever do in...

Before the Arab Spring, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the second son of the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was establishing himself...

Chicago is in the midst of a crime wave — but there is also a question about whether police officers will show up for work.That’s because...

The Clean Electricity Program has been at the heart of President Biden’s climate agenda since he took office.But passage was always going...

Colin Powell, who in four decades of public service helped shape U.S. national security, died on Monday. He was 84.Despite a stellar...

In 2020, Virginia epitomized the way in which Democrats took the White House and Congress — by turning moderate and swing counties.But...

When the Hirshhorn Museum told Laurie Anderson that it wanted to put on a big, lavish retrospective of her work, she said no.For one thing,...