As Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares to hand down another federal budget, attention is once again turning to one of Canberra’s most tightly controlled democratic traditions: the budget lock-up. For ...

Standardise grants systems and data, not control. Centralise tech and standards. Decentralise expertise and market test ...

Since it ignores why we have deficits and debt in the first place, a balanced budget rule would vastly expand the size of the federal government. To understand why, we need only contemplate the ...

Kent Lee, 41, is a Democrat and the incumbent member of the San Diego City Council representing District 6, and he is running for re-election. Lee grew up around Los Angeles County but has lived most ...

Who is running for Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District in the 2026 election and where do candidates stand on the issues?

In the before times—before machines could hallucinate, before compute was a noun—it was not uncommon to go several weeks without someone telling me the world was about to end. Similarly, a whole ...

A billion dollars is a lot of money for a ballroom that was supposed to be free.

Democrats announced Saturday night that the Senate’s top parliamentary referee had determined that the $1 billion provision ...

The administration has also been making its own moves, on Wednesday, announcing its own coalition of organizations spanning the health industry — including insurers, providers and digital health ...

From taxes on nicotine to hotel rooms, states are looking for ways to pay the skyrocketing bill.