Eroding ACA enrollment portends higher insurance rates

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’

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

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

US Airports Get Nearly $1 Billion for Family-Friendly Upgrades: Duffy

A person rolls two suitcases with children seated on them as travelers pass through Miami International Airport during Memorial Day weekend in Miami, Fla., on May 24, 2025. Giorgio VIera/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration has invested $970 million to make airports more family-friendly, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Monday. Airports