At a packed and overly hot meeting at last week’s Conservative Party conference, James Johnson, former adviser to Theresa May ...

As USAID's demise concludes, the State Department has grand plans to reorient foreign aid to defend Ukraine and counter China ...

Today’s instability stems from physical limits on affordable energy, which undermine debt-driven complexity and push ...

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...

Half a century ago, Congress protected its power of the purse, and conservatives balked at letting presidents disobey ...

In the last 50 years the federal government has come to at least a partial shutdown 11 times. Some have lasted a day or more.

The concept of a government shutdown is still relatively new in the U.S. There have been 21 federal government shutdowns since the 1970s. The longest government shutdown in U.S. history took place ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Tuesday, William G. Young—a federal district court judge in Massachusetts and a ...

President Donald Trump and many of his supporters celebrated last week when second-quarter gross domestic product numbers were revised upward to 3.8%, well above the 3% that pro-Trump economists ...

“America’s economic resurgence under President Trump continues: revised data show even stronger real GDP growth of 3.8 percent in Q2 2025 thanks to the Trump agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, tariffs, ...

Moscow's latest military spending plans shows that Vladimir Putin is no mood for peace in Ukraine, an expert on the Russian economy has told Newsweek. Amid stalled U.S.-led ceasefire efforts in ...

Last Tuesday, the Idaho Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee showed off a new digital and online web tool for ...