‘The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy

Five months before Congress faced a near-catastrophic standoff over the debt ceiling, with Republicans demanding restrictions to food and Medicaid programs to rein in spending, a bill that raised the cost of private retirement savings accounts to $282 billion per year was quietly signed into law. In this era of deeply divided politics, the 2022

Trump Says Israel Was Safe When He Was in the White House

‘This is a very dangerous period of time in our nation,’ he said. Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran wouldn’t make threats against Israel when he was in office, criticizing President Joe Biden’s warnings of an impending attack as “pathetic.” After Tehran threatened attacks in Israel, President Trump stated that America faces

Japan’s Foreign Policy Revolution

Washington is hardly the nation’s glamor center, and even so, visits by foreign dignitaries usually produce more style than substance. Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida’s state visit this week, however, was one of the most consequential in years. The understated leader of America’s largest Asian ally announced a series of agreements with President Biden that