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U.S. Healthcare Insurance Medical Cost, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Politics

How the Affordable Care Act made healthcare unaffordable

Timothy P. Carney · November 1, 2026 6:00 am

Signs direct voters to a polling location.

Democrats near the prize: Election-law overhauls in battleground states

In this image provided by Karen Dillman, Alaska Senate candidate Dan Sullivan, one of the challengers to the incumbent senator, also named Dan Sullivan, poses for a photo on a hike, Sunday, June 7, 2026, on Kupreanof Island, near Petersburg, Alaska. (Karen Dillman via AP)

The Dan Sullivan scheme: Another ‘conspiracy theory’ turns out to be true

Abdul el Sayed

Of course el Sayed is on the side of the terrorists

Obama and Trump 2028 white house

Trump vs. Obama: The finale America deserves

Students walk on the campus of Boston College.

The research racket: How universities cash in on federal grants

Stephen Porter March 11, 2025 8:00 am

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, left, takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Trump’s tariff theory of the case

Conn Carroll March 10, 2025 2:00 pm

House Democrats retreat gives caucus first glimpse of future leadership — and chance for a reset

Rachel Schilke March 10, 2025 8:00 am

MAGA has a problem with Amy Coney Barrett. It’s more complicated than they think

Kaelan Deese March 9, 2025 8:00 am

Candles for Pope Francis are seen in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Friday, March 7, 2025, where the Pontiff has been hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14.

A pastoral pope

Jeremiah Poff March 8, 2025 2:00 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom stands at a press conference at Raleigh Studios unveiling a vast expansion of California’s Film and Television Credit Program on October 27, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Gavin Newsom’s bold plans have a habit of blowing up

Barnini Chakraborty March 8, 2025 8:00 am

Recalling the twisted tyranny of ‘follow the science’

Timothy P. Carney March 7, 2025 2:00 pm

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

Trump promised us stability, not economic chaos

David Harsanyi March 7, 2025 8:00 am

President-elect Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Dec. 7, 2024.

What both sides get wrong about Ukraine

David Harsanyi March 6, 2025 2:00 pm

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington.

Trump restores the First Amendment to the press pool

Joe Concha March 6, 2025 8:00 am

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to vote for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2024.

Will Iran give Trump what he wants?

Tom Rogan March 5, 2025 2:00 pm

Humanitarian interventionism sowed the seeds of the Ukraine war

John Roberts March 5, 2025 8:00 am