Both the House and Senate return to session Tuesday after a lengthy summer recess — with a hectic fall and a looming deadline to fund the government on the horizon.  Front and center is an Oct. 1 deadline to fund the government. Democratic votes are essential to break a filibuster on any spending plan in the Senate.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) faces criticism from the left...

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor on Tuesday morning.  Penning his endorsement in an opinion piece for the New York Daily News, the former mayor highlighted Mamdani’s commitment to affordability for working-class New Yorkers.  “We don’t just need Zohran Mamdani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas, or because they can be achieved. We need him...

A recent Wall Street Journal-NORC poll of adults in the U.S. revealed widespread sour economic sentiments, with just 31% indicating that they think the American dream — that a person can get ahead by working hard — remains true. A whopping 46% indicated that they believed it previously held true but no longer does, while 23% indicated that the idea of the American dream never held true. The...