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Exclusive: Trump Administration Freezes $2.7 Billion in ‘Digital Equity’ Grants
Biden-era funding is under investigation for possible race-based discrimination by the federal government.
Gabe Kaminsky
Exclusive: Democrats Push to Make Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Public
The legislation would force greater ethics scrutiny on the world’s richest man.
Gabe Kaminsky
Is It Time to Privatize the USPS?
If there’s any part of the federal apparatus that could use a dose of radical disruption, it’s the postal service.
Charles Lane
Uri Berliner: NPR Should Refuse to Take Federal Funds
The broadcaster needs to stop pretending it’s a network for all of America, and become the progressive institution it truly wants to be.
Uri Berliner
Yuval Levin: You Can’t Run Government Through Retribution
Donald Trump’s key early actions are responses to frustrations from his first term. But did he learn the wrong lesson?
Yuval Levin
Two Cheers for DOGE
It turns out that Washington spends our money on some very, very stupid things.
The Editors
EXCLUSIVE: The EPA Demands an Accounting of the $20 Billion Climate Fund
‘If you ask me where all this money is going,’ says EPA head Lee Zeldin, ‘I actually don’t know.’
Madeleine Rowley
DOGE Cut Off Funds to NED. Now They’re Suing.
The National Endowment for Democracy says the executive branch has no authority to stop their funding.
Eli Lake
Will NIH Cuts Boost Public Health—or Destroy It?
Two cancer doctors debate whether Trump’s slashing of billions to the National Institutes for Health are efficient or could endanger people's lives.
David Andorsky and Vinay Prasad
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Revolutionize America?
Change is underway—at the border, in our federal government, and abroad. But several forces threaten to undermine success.
Victor Davis Hanson
A $20 Billion Slush Fund—Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits
It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden…
Madeleine Rowley
Emperor Elon, Don’t Give Us Ebola
Turns out, in slashing federal funding, the head of DOGE is getting rid of some good stuff. Like disease prevention.
Nellie Bowles
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