Politics, history and the people who made it
Mike edits Today on Politics stories on government money and the military: the federal budget, taxes, pay and benefits, and how Washington spends. Mike works from Treasury, CBO, GAO and Defense Department data, and links each figure to the table it comes from.
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Discover 9 facts on how George Washington's 1782 Badge of Military Merit evolved into the modern Purple Heart, from Douglas MacArthur to current 2026 laws.
Learn how the Americans with Disabilities Act passed Congress through bipartisan compromise and reshaped employment, public transit, and modern web accessibility.
How the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 transformed American politics, shifted House seats to suburbs, displaced urban cores, and remade the electoral…
Explore 11 former or renamed U.S. Cabinet departments, from the Department of War to the Post Office, based on federal statutes and…
