The Latest Breaking News from Ronald Reagan

Consumer prices in the U.S. are rising due to inflation at the fastest rate they have in decades. Earlier this summer, SciLine interviewed Martha Olney, a teaching professor emerita of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, about what’s causing prices to rise and what the government can do to…

Political scientist David Leal explains why conservatives should reject efforts to compel states and localities to help enforce federal laws these jurisdictions oppose.

“State consti­tu­tional bans on gerry­man­der­ing in Flor­ida, Ohio, North Caro­lina, and other states could die, as could inde­pend­ent redis­trict­ing commis­sions in Arizona, Cali­for­nia, Michigan and other states,” according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

The rightwing group is planning a future more authoritarian, more extreme and more ruthless – with or without the former president

There's literally no excuse for this vapid, soulless party to win anything. But they may, and we'll all pay for it

PHILADELPHIA — In early May, Republican Party insiders in Pennsylvania were scrambling behind the scenes to thin the field in the governor’s race and unify around a single candidate — anyone, basically, but Doug Mastriano. Money was transferred. A poll was commissioned.

LOS ANGELES — Whoever drove the car or truck that last week killed the mountain lion P-89 on the 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills — about 60 years ago, that driver would have been in line for a reward, a government atta-boy bounty of as much as $75 (more than…

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared the third Sunday of each July to be “National Ice Cream Day,” and it doesn’t seem like a coincidence that he picked a date in the middle of the hottest month in the United States, climatologically speaking, to commemorate a treat enjoyed by more…

Loved by both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, the 1952 convention-defying film is like a political Rorschach test

The Cardiff University professor also said he advocates ‘thinning out’ workers’ rights

Economist Tyler Cowen argues this approach is too often neglected. But is more common than he suggests.