America’s leaders have a funny way of showing their determination to make the federal government work again. President Donald Trump cared so much that he went golfing. Nothing shows a chief ...

An aerial view shows a data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Va., last year. Local communities around the country are seeking more input on where and how data centers are built ...

My modest proposal: anyone writing about Social Security should have to pass a test demonstrating that they have read the Social Securities trustees report, and understand the basic dynamics of a ...

Monday on the RCP podcast, the panel joked about what to do with the site of the FBI's Washington headquarters as the agency leaves behind the Hoover building. "That building was like J. Edgar Hoover: ...

The big problem with our society is that we do not have enough gangs. Gangs are good. Gangs create jobs. Gangs stop petty thievery in their own neighborhoods. Did I mention that gangs are good? Young ...

Billionaire Tom Steyer has the chance to do something amazing. Does Steyer mean it? Political campaigns are basically performance art now and it’s hard to tell where any candidate really stands.

How dirty is Shakespeare, really? You're about to find out. In Naughty Bits: A Modest Proposal for Banning Shakespeare, HudsonWerks Theater exposes the Bard's bawdiest bits in a whip-smart, zany ...

I've lost count of how many times right-wing talking heads have used the phrase “short-term pain, long-term gain” to justify the recent record-setting increases in oil prices due to Dear Leader's ...

In 1729, British clergyman Jonathan Swift penned a biting satire to solve the growing disparity of wealth arising from the exploitative English rule of Ireland. His “modest proposal” to solve the ...

Author’s note: In 1729, Jonathan Swift published " A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the ...