The massive tax and budget bill President Trump signed into law this month could prove a major challenge for Republicans in ...

The villainy of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' presented a perfect opportunity for heroism in Washington. Lawmakers knew that and ...

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon is one of our state’s most prolific abusers of Illinois’ “self-funding” loophole.

I am so proud that The Mercury has Sound Off. Other papers can’t deal with a forum like this. The other papers can’t deal ...

A plan to put able-bodied Americans on Medicaid to work in the fields was tried once before and failed miserably.

Mississippians who supported Medicaid expansion would have been better off had they accepted a work requirement in the 2024 legislative session.

President Donald Trump takes the stage during the AMERICA250 Celebration Kick-Off in Des Moines Iowa on Thursday, July 3, 2025.

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no ...