The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump’s address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Al Green, shook his cane and shouted at the president. When he refused to desist, Speaker Mike Johnson ordered him removed from the chamber. Two days later, in a ...

Plenty of Ohio families are struggling with caring not only for children, but older family members who need full-time attention. Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Carey, R-Ohio 15th District, aims to lighten that load. The Credit for Caring Act would offer up to a $5,000 nonrefundable ...

Budget reform is not an option. It is a necessity. We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that exist solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists, or special interest groups. Barack Obama started his version of DOGE in 2014. And he still doubled ...

We are in a state of emergency. Most newspapers report the facts, ma’am, but shy from stating American democracy is on the line, in serious peril. Scenes from the resistance: the Lincoln Memorial, the jammed independent bookstore and the floor of Congress, where Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) ...

My advice to congressional Democrats: If you’re going to embrace performative politics, be sure you give a good performance. Instead, the Dems at President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress looked like an angry and lonely clown car. They looked the very portrait that they ...

The concept of shame has largely disappeared from American life over time, but the process seems to have accelerated more recently. How else can we explain the evolution of social media, where some so-called influencers go out of their way to call attention to misadventures and stunts that ...