A bruising fight Thursday among Dallas police and fire pension board members ended after a majority voted 6-5 to finalize the city’s 30-year funding plan to resolve a $3 billion shortfall. This comes ...

In countless casual political conversations over the years, I have heard the principle of the “lesser of two evils” invoked, the quiet suggestion that voting is less an act of belief than a ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Want to go to Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s inauguration? Her inaugural committee announced a ticket lottery system Friday for Virginians who want the chance to attend her inaugural ...

(WHTM) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) backed the Trump administration’s unilateral strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, saying he would’ve supported drone strikes by the Obama ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The massive and sprawling $1 billion welfare-fraud schemes engulfing Minnesota are now casting fresh scrutiny on an old, opaque money-transfer network used by Somali Americans to ...

Six voting systems Louisiana displayed for public testing this summer have been certified to advance to the state’s bidding process, Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced Thursday. Just one of ...

Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc. image/svg+xml Note: The views ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to overhaul a federal regulatory group, launched following the 2008 housing bust, that is tasked with safeguarding the U.S. financial system. The 15-member panel ...

American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly selected to serve as legislators, could empower ordinary people and stem ...

New Orleans has inched closer to realizing rapid public transit, as officials have signed off on the design of a swift bus system that would connect New Orleans East to the Central Business District ...

Americans rejoice: AI might be hiking our energy bills up to record breaking highs, but it could be just what we need to break free of our dreaded government duopoly. At least, that’s according to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio will soon be able to check thousands of voters’ citizenship records with “unprecedented access” to a federal records database. Officials in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Florida ...