Ryan McMaken takes a deep dive on food stamp spending, food stamp recipients, and how Big Ag and other industry lobbyists fight to keep food stamp spending flowing and increasing.

: The campaign for ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar recently sent over a thousand dollars to a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that partnered with a Palestinian university with alleged terrorist ties, according…

Otto von Bismarck said, “Laws are like sausages, it’s better not to see them made.” Look too closely, people would recognize that the republic has long since become something else…

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her family chateau on Lake Geneva, meeting with…

NBC reports: “companies are seeing wealthier Americans spend more while lower-income Americans are paring back.”

It has not been proven that it is Ukraine who attacked the oil refineries in Hungary and Romania. But the circumstances force the question of whether it is a Ukrainian…

The “boom continues: ” U.S. factory activity shrank in October for an eighth straight month, driven by a pullback in production and tepid demand.”

The extrajudicial killings continue without any declaration of war. Meanwhile, the administration admits few of these boats have the ability to even reach US waters.

The State Department is deploying teams that are expected to arrive in the Caribbean as early as Thursday to support disaster response after Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica Tuesday. The State…

Senate Democrats railed against Republicans and the Trump administration’s argument that the well had run dry on federal food stamp benefits given that President Donald Trump funded the program during…