There is an old trick which may help you divine the length of a prospective government shutdown. The signpost to watch is the pay schedule for federal workers. Let’s start with the basics. This potential partial shutdown would impact six areas of the government and hits 78 percent of all federal spending. It’s set to begin at 12:00:01 a.m. ET on Saturday, January 31. But since it’s over...

Conservative icon and academic Thomas Sowell unleashed on the current state of the education system, warning it has become a massive arm of “propaganda” with little incentive to improve as union power and friendly Democratic politics shield schools from accountability. “It’s failing to teach students how to think,” the 95-year-old economist and historian said in a podcast interview published Tuesday. “It’s failing to give them a background of...

President Donald Trump’s campaign blitz to help Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections will bring him back to Iowa just a few months before the November races, a Republican gubernatorial hopeful there said. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, was one of several House Republicans traveling with the president during his latest stop in the Hawkeye State Tuesday, which Trump capped off with a rally-style speech in Clive in the...