Hiltzik: The debate over student debt relief reemerges
You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden’s dispensing of student debt relief.…
You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden’s dispensing of student debt relief.…
Here’s how the legal departments of two hospitals, legislators in two states and even the Supreme Court turned a pregnancy emergency for Mylissa Farmer into…
Question for Major League Baseball: How do you like your sports betting partnerships now? The question arises at this moment because the league faces what…
A hoary old chestnut in government circles describes all budgets as mostly political documents. But what can you say about a budget that’s nothing but…
The headline Trump news on Friday was that investors in Truth Social, his money-losing social media platform, voted to take it public at a valuation…
Sunday was a tough day for those, like me, who get their entertainment jollies by watching losers try to redeem themselves. I’m not talking only…
Those of us who diligently follow financial forecasts know that the go-to place for mapping out the course of the economy over the coming 12…
Question: Is there anything more absurd than red state governors rejecting federal programs that directly benefit their constituents? Easy answer: Yes. It’s the explanations they…
Here’s a pair of handy rules of thumb to know we’re heading into a major election cycle: (1) Republican candidates start talking about the need…
There can be few American public institutions more widely destested than the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. The NCAA spent decades promoting the ideal of the…
Let’s take a snapshot of the U.S. economy. Gross domestic product rose at an annualized rate of 4.9% in the third quarter of this year,…
Scarcely a week into the tenure of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and his view of American voters and the press as dimwits to be…
Thursday’s announcement that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp. prompted news organizations the world over to ransack the obituaries…
Three men huddle around a lit fire in an oil drum. An entire community of the dispossessed goes about its day, here hanging laundry or…
You may have noticed that Vivek Ramaswamy is the political flavor of the moment, thanks to his supercaffeinated performance at the Aug. 23 GOP political…
Presidential campaigns start earlier and earlier these days, and so too do pleas that politics in the U.S. would be so much more effective if…
It has been well noted that, whatever their starting points, conspiracy theorists sooner or later get around to blaming the Jews. During a press dinner…
One curious feature of the presidential campaign season’s current phase is the praise being lavished on Chris Christie by otherwise progressive or Democratic commentators. The…
Everyone loves a good heist yarn, so I suppose we should be grateful to Major League Baseball and a Northern California billionaire for providing us…
I was taking my customary siesta Wednesday afternoon when I was jolted awake by the sound of a truck straining to go uphill. Come to…