At one minute past midnight on Tuesday, Canada’s retaliation went into effect: tariffs of 15 to 50 percent on 27.6 billion Canadian dollars’ worth of American goods, covering hundreds of product lines from milk and cheese to steel, furniture, appliances,...
The mail voting fight we have tracked for three months reached its most decisive ruling on Friday evening, and its most telling response by Sunday. In a 49 page decision, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Postal...
Labor Day is the one holiday with a thesis: that the people who do the work deserve a share of what the work produces. So today, instead of speeches, this newsletter offers a ledger. Every number below is from federal data or named researchers, most of it published in...
Sometime this month, roughly 20 million Americans will get a letter about their health insurance. Federal law requires it: states must warn Medicaid expansion enrollees, no later than September, that starting January 1, 2027 they will have to document 80 hours a month...
The August jobs report, released Friday morning, was better than almost anyone predicted. Employers added 162,000 jobs, roughly triple the consensus forecast of about 56,000. July, which the government initially reported as a loss of 23,000 jobs, was revised to a gain...
On Thursday morning, a Justice Department lawyer stood in a Boston courtroom and could not tell a federal judge whether the Postal Service’s system for screening mail ballots is ready to run. On Thursday afternoon, before that judge could rule and before the...
