What the Conservatives Get Wrong about the French Revolution

Johnson Caves To Thune On DHS Funding: Accepts Senate's Partial Bill That Ditches Voter ID, Leaves ICE Out In The Cold In a clear concession announced April 1, 2026, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) yielded to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and agreed to advance the Senate-passed bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - explicitly excluding ICE and key CBP enforcement operations - while moving long-term immigration enforcement and border security funding to the partisan reconciliation process. This is the same bill that Johnson and House R's rejected...

Housing Starts Surge To Highest Since 2024 As Permits Unexpectedly Crater With mortgage rates still relatively low, despite a recent jump in interest rates, and a top-down push for affordability, Housing Starts for March soared while the more forward-looking Building Permits disappointed, unexpectedly plunged. Housing starts soared 10.8% MoM in March (far more than the -0.4% expected drop) while Permits plunged 10.8% MoM (and worse than the -0.4% decline expected)... This pushed the SAAR totals for Starts to 1.502 million, far above the 1.390 million expected, and the highest since Dec 2024,...