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Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Bill Clinton ascended one of the highest summits in Virginia to announce that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads, drilling, and other disturbances within America’s most […]

Senate GOP leaders are considering cancelling next week’s recess if the shutdown continues.

Short-term renewals of policies such as the ACA subsidies set up repeated battles in Congress.

In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed. So why not, Draper argued, break it up into six new “startups,” a.k.a. states? […]

Governments must urgently address security, energy, and finance challenges.

The already impoverished country is facing an economic crisis, marked by soaring inflation and food shortages.

Victoria, the country’s second-most-populous state, plans to give workers the legal right to work from home two days per week starting next year.