Some political scientists see a pattern that suggests American democracy is being undermined in real time. The stakes are ...

America, after years of leading on tech and economic growth, is cutting itself off from global trade to protect manufacturing ...

The danger for Trump is that the economic picture turns bad enough that it sours Americans on the entire enterprise. Trump’s ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are buckling in for a protracted government shutdown, something that experts say could begin to have a significant impact on the economy and put pressure on President ...

The government shutdown makes it harder to gauge how the economy is doing, and the problem is likely to worsen the longer the shutdown continues—especially when it comes to inflation.

Three days into the government shutdown, it’s increasingly unclear where the US economy is headed — not because of a direct ...

According to economist Justin Wolfers, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is stuck in a policy dilemma created by the trade ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Moody's Chief Economist Mark Zandi about the strength of the economy during the government shutdown.

The release of U.S. jobs data typically has traders and investors glued to their screens at 8:30 am waiting for the ...

The UK’s public finances are, in one sense, “eminently fixable”, said The Economist. While the financial crisis and pandemic ...

“The world is being swamped with Chinese goods, and the United States, Europe and Japan are right to worry about it.” Those are the opening words of a recent Washington Post editorial about Chinese ...

President Donald Trump came into office with massive plans to overhaul the way the US government operates and consolidate power in himself. And he’s been largely successful in implementing that vision ...