New Fed Chair Pledges ‘Regime Change’ to Fight Inflation—Here’s What That Could Mean in Practice

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Newly confirmed Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, pledging new tactics to fight inflation, faces an uphill battle to keep rising prices in check.  At his April 21 Senate confirmation hearing, Warsh called for “a regime change in the conduct of policy” at the Fed under former chair Jerome Powell, whose tenure saw annual inflation exceed

Graham Platner Won’t Say if His Monthly Government Payments for ‘100 Percent Disability’ Come With Work Restrictions

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Graham Platner has made his status as a fully disabled veteran a central part of his insurgent campaign against Maine senator Susan Collins (R.). At the same time, he has refused to disclose whether the Veterans Affairs (V.A.) benefits that make up the vast majority of his income come with work restrictions—a critical distinction that

Primaries Held in 6 States: What to Watch

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A voter at a polling site during the redistricting referendum in Alexandria, Va., on April 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Voters in Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Idaho head to the polls on May 19 for a slate of primary elections that will shape key gubernatorial, Senate, House, and statewide contests ahead of

Eroding ACA enrollment portends higher insurance rates

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Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act continues to erode as some customers struggle to make premium payments, with the declining numbers churning market uncertainty for insurers. In response, insurers are likely to raise rates again next year, following this year’s larger-than-typical hikes. Sign-ups were already down in January by about 1.2 million from last year’s

JB Pritzker Admin Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness’

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The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower Microaggression video (Fusion Comedy YouTube), J.B. Pritzker (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker’s (D.) administration offers a taxpayer-funded training on “microaggressions” and other “exclusionary behaviors” that depicts white people and

Supreme Court Directs Lower Courts to Reexamine Decisions in Voting Rights Act Cases

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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, on April 3, 2026. Rahmat Gul/AP Photo The U.S. Supreme Court on May 18 ordered lower courts to reconsider rulings in two redistricting cases that concern whether private individuals may sue to enforce a federal law that bans discriminatory voting practices. The court directed the lower courts