For more than 50 years, federal civil rights law has included a principle called disparate impact: the idea that a policy or practice can be unlawful discrimination even without proof of intent, as long as it produces unequal outcomes for protected groups. A company...
The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is the federal law that created the insurance marketplaces where roughly 22 million Americans bought their health coverage in 2025. Starting in January 2026, the subsidies that had been making those plans...
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed the Senate 85 to 5 and the House 358 to 32 with the kind of bipartisan margins lawmakers rarely produce. Trump was scheduled to sign it at the White House. He canceled the ceremony and told Congress he would not put his name...
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, is the trade deal that governs most of what crosses the borders between the three North American economies, covering $1.8 trillion in annual goods and services trade and nearly 30 percent of the world’s...
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on June 30, 2026, that children born in the United States to parents who are in the country without legal status, or who are here on temporary visas, are American citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice John...
The Supreme Court ruled June 29, 2026, that President Trump can fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will, even when Congress passed laws saying those officials could only be removed for specific cause. In doing so, the Court’s six conservative...
