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This Office Was the Best Defense Against Discrimination in Schools. Trump Destroyed It.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights once resolved issues before they became yearslong investigations.

All that’s needed is the political will to staff the government and nudge up taxes.

One bill in particular would threaten $500 billion in federal spending every year. Several House Republicans in tough races supported it.

New rules could grant ‘small business’ benefits to companies with up to $5 billion in assets. Actual small businesses may have no choice but to sell.

Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.

The nonprofits that enforce anti-discrimination laws are being cut off from the federal funding that makes their work possible.

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Government borrowing costs are going through the roof—and so are yours and mine.

That would start what is the only sane water policy for the American West.

Now the agency must rely on private contractors, who are much more expensive.

Along with federal law enforcement agencies, private companies are now surveilling opponents of Big Tech.