Attorney General Rob Bonta walked into a microphone this week and announced a headline that sounds impressive: his office “protected” $207.1 billion in federal funding while spending roughly $19.2 million from a special fund — and about $30 million total — to do it. That sounds like a tidy win until you start asking basic More

The Ninth Circuit just slapped down the Department of Education and cleared the way for mass student loan discharges tied to the long‑running “Sweet” borrower‑defense settlement. In plain English: federal judges refused to give the Department more time, which means tens of thousands of borrowers who say for‑profit schools cheated them will soon see balances More

President Donald Trump turned a routine campaign stop in Las Vegas into a short, sweet lesson in instincts and optics. While touting his “no tax on tips” policy and new “Trump Accounts,” he also saved a little boy from wandering off the stage — and then landed a punchline aimed at President Joe Biden that More

The Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing on the future of Social Security laid bare a simple truth: Washington has an elephantine problem and the parties disagree on whether to feed it a new tax or hand it to a commission to nibble at. Lawmakers sparred over two competing approaches — immediate revenue changes like lifting the More