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Democrats are loudly bemoaning the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade this week, and that’s because they think abortion rights will help them politically. Yet that political frenzy is actually a vindication of the Court’s 6-3 Dobbs decision and Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion. The Dobbs decision, which returned abortion policy to the states and the voters, was correct as a matter of constitutional law. It overturned what...

President Biden’s latest iteration of his student-loan “forgiveness” plan has been temporarily blocked, as two federal judges sided with multiple Republican states in ruling that only Congress holds the authority to erase student debt. Both preliminary injunctions were filed Monday, prohibiting the Biden administration from canceling student loans under the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment program. It was set to take effect July 1. The pair of orders...

Every Pride Month, the rainbow flags come out, parades march on, and, if it’s an election year, Democratic candidates make their appeal to a growing part of the electorate: LGBTQ voters. But it’s easy to forget how modern of a development this is. That LGBTQ voters and the Democratic Party would become so closely intertwined was never a given — and as far back as the 1950s, when LGBTQ Americans were first beginning to organize, it wasn’t at all clear which political party was a natural home...

ddressing America's gun violence crisis requires a public health approach, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy will declare in an advisory Tuesday. Why it matters: The surgeon general's advisory, one of the most significant tools his office has to draw the public's attention to a health issue, comes days before the first presidential debate and follows a spate of mass shootings in the first weekend of summer. "For too long, this issue has been mired in polarization and...

President Trump and President Biden added a combined $12.7 trillion to the national debt between January 2017 and June 2024, a new report has found. While some of that spending was driven by Covid pandemic emergency spending, the majority was added due to increased spending and reduced tax revenues.  According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the national debt will reach a “record share” of America’s economy during the next presidential term, which begins in...

The fiscal policies of the Trump administration added twice the amount to the national deficit as have President Biden’s, a new analysis has found. Trump’s administration borrowed $8.4 trillion during the former president’s time in office, while Biden has borrowed $4.3 trillion, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a Washington think tank. Ignoring the pandemic relief measures enacted by both presidents, the proportion of debt addition still...

Former President Trump ran up the national debt by about twice as much as President Biden, according to a new analysis of their fiscal track records. Why it matters: The winner of November's election faces a gloomy fiscal outlook, with rapidly rising debt levels at a time when interest rates are already high and demographic pressure on retirement programs is rising. Both candidates bear a share of the responsibility, as each added trillions to that...

On a recent Friday, eight members gathered in a community centre wearing matching orange and green T-shirts to rehearse for a performance at a local festival in two days. Source: Inspired by Olympics debut, Japan’s seniors blaze breakdancing trail What struck me was all the smiles.