This past weekend, as I was walking through Midtown Manhattan, the National Debt Clock, a billboard-sized running total display of the United States gross national debt, caught my attention. $33.7 trillion...

Following the appointment of U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) as the new speaker of the House on Wednesday, several Illinois officials released statements on the new role. The House of Representatives...

There’s been a sense of impending doom surrounding the Republican Party for the past few years, with Democrats and their media counterparts perpetuating a narrative that the Republican Party has been...

The people’s house is in disarray. In the wake of John Boehner’s bombshell announcement that he wants to hand over the Speaker’s gavel by the end of the month, followed by his right-hand man and...