At 2 p.m. Eastern this afternoon, the Federal Reserve announces whether it is raising interest rates for the first time since July 2023. Futures markets put the odds of a quarter point hike at 93 percent, which would lift the benchmark rate to a range of 3.75 to 4...
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency did two things at once, and the second is the one to watch. First, it finalized the repeal of the 2024 carbon pollution standards for power plants, the rules covering the coal and gas fleet responsible for more than 1.5...
Mail voting in the 2026 election will work the way it always has. That is the plain meaning of a brief, unsigned order the Supreme Court issued Monday night, rejecting the administration’s request to switch on the Postal Service’s mail ballot rule while...
In the middle of hurricane season, a federal judge has ruled that the administration broke the law when it ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut its workforce roughly in half. The decision, issued late Friday by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in...
Everyone’s calendar says the big date is Tuesday, November 3. This newsletter would like to direct your attention seven weeks past it, because the largest concentration of consequential deadlines in this political year sits not on Election Day but in the five...
While the mail ballot fight holds the spotlight, a second emergency application about your right to vote is sitting at the Supreme Court, and it may be the more consequential one. On Tuesday, September 8, the Justice Department asked the justices to lift a lower court...
