A wave of new state laws taking effect in 2026 covers everything from wages and workplace protections to gender-neutral bathrooms in public schools, firing squads, and taxes. Forty-three states will ring in the new year with notable tax changes, according to the Tax Foundation. Eight states will lower their individual income tax rates, while Ohio will […]

President Donald Trump is closing a seismic year as the country’s commander in chief. Since the first day of his second administration, when he issued 26 executive orders, 12 presidential memos, and four proclamations, the most first-day actions of any U.S. president, Trump has reshaped Washington, D.C. He hasn’t had it all his own way, […]

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from possibly enacting the most progressive policies the largest city in the United States has ever seen. But it won’t be easy for him. Many of the ambitious plans will require outside approval from powers more moderate than he is. Although his promises helped catalyze his socialist […]

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, once a defiant figure against President Donald Trump’s first administration, has registered her most cordial year with Trump in 2025. As she brings her mayoral chapter to a close at the end of next year, Bowser has struck a much different, more appeasing tone with Trump in the first […]