In July 2025, Congress narrowly avoided catastrophe by raising the debt ceiling to $41.1 trillion through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The reprieve was temporary. With the Congressional Budget ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... There may be nothing more dangerous for America than President Donald Trump learning about another nation. The president who once campaigned ...

The quintessential American economic myth is that the free market picks winners and losers. But the federal government has long had a role in this equation, from the current administration all the way ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a graphic on June 11 depicting Uncle Sam nailing up a poster that reads, "Help your country…and yourself…." Underneath the poster is the command ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Three years ago, Washington was busy marshaling an alliance of the world’s ...

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Uncle Sam’s abiding ambivalence about having close ties with corporate America is getting some fresh, albeit unwelcome, clarity. Calling U.S.