A global beauty brand sent its top two Americas-facing executives to a design school. The visit says more about how luxury firms build talent pipelines than about any single campus event.
Valentina Sokolov · September 25, 2026The word covers more than elections. It is the whole business of deciding together who gets what, and how.
Henrik Larsen · September 24, 2026
The senator's office lists ten funded projects, from lake repairs to small-business grants, in the AB 113 budget package.
Valentina Sokolov · September 22, 2026
A durable bank of motions, sorted by difficulty, with the strongest case for each side sketched.
Valentina Sokolov · September 20, 2026
Margins, agenda specificity and divided government offer a way to test a claim that voters endorsed a platform.
Henrik Larsen · September 17, 2026
A look at how continuing resolutions work, why lawmakers rely on them almost every year, and what happens when one is not passed by the fiscal deadline.
Valentina Sokolov · August 20, 2026The Court ruled 6–3 on June 30 that children born on U.S. soil to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Alexandria Lucas · July 5, 2026The House passed a Senate bill funding every DHS component except ICE and Border Patrol by voice vote on April 30, and the president signed it the same day.
Alexandria Lucas · May 2, 2026
The Hart-Scott-Rodino filing, the second request, and the decision to challenge or clear a deal — explained.
Valentina Sokolov · September 18, 2026
The debt limit caps how much the Treasury may borrow to pay for spending Congress already approved, and hitting it without an increase would force choices among payments no law currently defines.
Henrik Larsen · August 28, 2026
Congress has finished its full appropriations process on time only three times in 47 years, making stopgap spending bills the routine way agencies stay funded.
Henrik Larsen · August 18, 2026
The budget year runs a 20-month production cycle — president's request, spring resolutions, summer marks, October 1 funding deadline — and every stage slips.
Henrik Larsen · August 1, 2026
The food-stamp program's work rules layer federal statutes, age thresholds, and state waivers — and the 2025 law expanded them to new groups.
Henrik Larsen · July 14, 2026
The Court ruled the law's requirement that ByteDance divest TikTok's US operations does not violate the First Amendment, clearing the law to take effect.
Aleksandr Komarov · August 23, 2026
Congress routinely relies on short-term spending bills to avoid shutdowns, but the stopgap funding comes with restrictions that agencies say slow hiring, contracting and new programs.
Aleksandr Komarov · August 15, 2026
Eighteen states and Washington, D.C. have pledged their electoral votes to the national popular-vote winner, reviving a state-by-state fight over how presidents are chosen.
Lena Fischer · August 13, 2026
The $7.25 floor has not moved since 2009 while nearly 20 states raised theirs in January 2026 — the argument is about who is helped and who is priced out.
Valentina Sokolov · August 10, 2026Full retirement age is 67 for those born in 1960 or later; the trust fund's shortfall puts the number back on the table every Congress.
Lena Fischer · July 23, 2026Pilot programs from Stockton to Kenya informed the UBI debate; the argument turns on what cash without conditions does to work, poverty, and the budget.
Lena Fischer · July 9, 2026
Importers write the check to Customs and Border Protection, but government and Federal Reserve research shows the cost mostly lands on consumers within months.
Valentina Sokolov · August 10, 2026
The Federal Open Market Committee left its target range unchanged on July 29, 2026 — holding all year while inflation cools slower than expected.
Alexandria Lucas · August 5, 2026Four times a year public companies open their books: a press release, a call, and the annual 10-K whose footnotes carry the real story.
Alexandria Lucas · June 30, 2026An inverted Treasury yield curve has preceded every modern recession, with one false alarm — which is why the Fed watches it and why forecasters argue about it.
Alexandria Lucas · June 12, 2026