Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Attention to individual acts of market intervention, however, has so far failed to fully understand the Trump administration’s actions as ...

Anthony, a volunteer at the St. Benedict Church food pantry in Philadelphia, hands out dried fruit to a client during an Oct. 31, 2025, distribution that took place hours ahead of the scheduled Nov. 1 ...

As the longest government shutdown in history continues, the Trump administration informed U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of Rhode Island that it would pay out 50% of the SNAP benefits in ...

As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned. A prayer among leaders of Hemingway Memorial A.M.E. Church in District Heights, ...

Editor’s note (October 1st): American lawmakers failed to agree on a spending proposal before the deadline, causing a government shutdown. A government shutdown, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway’s quip ...

The shutdown brought the scale of the federal food aid program into focus and raised questions about how such a rich country could have so many people on nutrition assistance. By David W. Chen The ...

Shutdown ends after 43 days, longest in US history Fight over health subsidies unresolved Shutdown hurts economy, delays $50 billion in spending Nov 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. government is due to lumber ...

President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them. The president signed the flurry of executive orders he issued the day he returned to ...