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CFPB's new federal rule on payday lending expected soon

Payday industry officials and consumer advocates expect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, headed by Director Richard Cordray, to finalize sweeping new regulations on payday loans in the next few weeks...  Read more

No, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson aren't next

Half the press greeted this as an absurd question or suggestion...  Read more

Luther Strange, Roy Moore, Advance in the Alabama Republican Primary

President Trump played a surprisingly small role in the Republican primary for the Alabama Senate seat formerly held by Jeff Sessions...  Read more

Trump and the 'Very Fine People' Who March with Neo-Nazis

Trying to understand the president's strange and unsettling press conference...  Read more

Congress can't afford to go halfway on tax reform

As policymakers craft legislation, permanence should also be front and center...  Read more

Let Mexico keep buying American gas

America's new standing as an energy-exporting powerhouse should change the way Trump and others think about NAFTA...  Read more

Trump's failure after Charlottesville

There is no gray area in America's ongoing struggle to protect freedom from its adversaries; whether they come in the form of Vladimir Putin or David Duke...  Read more

Congress needs to repeal the medical device tax

The Senate's inability to move forward on healthcare reform left behind one key provision that made sense both as sound economic policy and good health policy - namely, repeal of the innovation-crushing and jobs-killing medical device excise tax...  Read more

Alabama Senate race is a big test for Mitch McConnell

Surveys project that Strange and Moore will advance to in a late September runoff...  Read more

Activists Use Online Sleuthing to Identify Violent White Supremacists in Charlottesviile

As a result, one man has lost his job and another has been disowned by his family. What happens if someone is misidentified?...  Read more

Bad Things Were Bound to Happen in Charlottesviile

The organizers claimed the planned a peaceful gathering, then marched across a college campus with torches...  Read more

Will Trump Finally End the Bannon-Kushner War?

Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner have been fighting for months. Is Trump finally ready to fire Bannon?  Read more

Conservatives should be wary of Roy Moore's fundamentalism

Solving political problems requires more than simply acknowledging God...  Read more

Hayes: Why Won't Trump Denounce White Supremacists?

Why won't President Trump be as specifically and unequivocally critical of white supremacists as he is of the media?...  Read more

Mexico fast becoming the US's largest market for energy exports, report says

The untapped market for U.S. crude oil and natural gas isn't across the sea in Asia or Europe, but just across the border in Mexico...  Read more

Bureaucrats can't run but they can hide, and it's time to stop them

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch set aside ethical norms and good judgment to take her secret, election-year meeting with former Present Bill Clinton at an Arizona airport...  Read more

Congress gets it right on veterans; why can't it on anything else?

How can lawmakers solve our nation's most complex dilemmas of healthcare, immigration, social services, and more, if their disdain for one another keeps them firmly planted on their side of the aisle?...  Read more

After the FBI Raid, Paul Manafort Changes Lawyers

The Mueller investigation may be turning in a new direction, which has Manafort assembling a new legal strategy. What does it mean for Trump?...  Read more