Sixty years ago, the president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, championed the value of immigration to the United States. When the president signed the Immigration and Nationality Act ...
If there is one thing presidents of both parties can agree on, it’s that the Congressional Budget Office causes them headaches. Every time Congress moves through the budget reconciliation process—which ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the passage of a U.S. tax and spending bill, Labour Party discord spooking British markets, and political infighting in the European ...
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Thursday, ending a monthslong political fight and delivering a significant win for the White ...
Following his strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to social media to express his deep worries about oil prices, which had spiked by roughly 20 percent ...
The shale revolution unleashed a new era of U.S. energy independence—but there’s a catch. At the bottom of every fracking rig is a specialized drill bit composed of so-called “superhard ...
Once it became clear that U.S. President Donald Trump was planning to drop bunker-busting bombs on Iran, some legislators in both parties expressed concerns that he would engage in an ...
Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes against Iran has ignited a political firestorm in Capitol Hill as lawmakers spar over whether the U.S. president—who did not first seek congressional approval—acted ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy U.S. Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles against the will of local officials has prompted new fears of how far he ...
On June 5, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office sent shockwaves through Washington by announcing that U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget reconciliation bill—known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—would ...
