Tag: Affordability

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Energy and Environment

Andy Beshear orders data centers to prove they won’t hurt Kentucky ratepayers

Molly Parks · August 6, 2026 5:25 pm

Graphic of JD Vance, Benny Johnson, and Ben Shapiro with a Cup Noodles and a burrito.

How a $20 burrito shows the Trump administration’s disconnect on cost of living

Claire Carter · August 6, 2026 3:29 pm

Freight train cars sit in a Norfolk Southern rail yard in Atlanta, Georgia in 2022. (Danny Karnik/AP)

America’s new infrastructure bill has a hidden tax on everything you buy

Patrick McLaughlin · August 6, 2026 9:14 am

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

A 40-year trade fight is the easiest deal Trump could make this year

Robert Ordway · August 6, 2026 9:00 am

Vice President JD Vance.

You’re not mad about the burrito prices. You’re mad about service prices

Tiana Lowe Doescher · August 5, 2026 8:31 pm

An aerial view shows cooling vent fans on the roof next to generators on the lower level of a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025. Data centers are the physical infrastructure that make our digital lives possible, yet most people have never seen one up close or understand how they operate. Roughly 12,000 data centers are in operation in the world, with about half in the US, according to Cloudscene, a data center directory. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Data centers generate billions. So why is your tax bill going up?

Owen Voutsinas-Klose · August 5, 2026 11:00 am

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters as he arrives at the chamber to praise the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans are panicking over $95 billion while ignoring a $1 trillion healthcare scam

Charles Sauer · August 5, 2026 9:00 am

Pile of envelopes with overdue utility bills isolated on white

The last affordable monthly bill in America — and the red tape endangering it

Karen Harbert · August 5, 2026 9:00 am

Power lines

Imagine a refrigerator that only works 40% of the time. That’s Washington’s energy policy

Jim Matheson · August 5, 2026 8:00 am

Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, visits a polling place at Salina Intermediate School on primary election day, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Democrats fear leftward lurch could muddle midterm message

Samantha-Jo Roth · August 5, 2026 7:00 am

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands by at an announcement event of a city-wide, discounted grocery plan.

Republicans slam Mamdani’s ID requirement for city-owned grocery stores

David Zimmermann · August 3, 2026 2:50 pm

Collage of failed California gubernatorial candidate Spencer Pratt and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Spencer Pratt rips Mamdani’s grocery ID plan: ‘Disingenuous lying buffoons’

Kiara Moore · August 3, 2026 11:08 am