Energy costs have soared in the last two years and many U.S. households have struggled to keep up. Carlos Martín outlines what the recently passed reconciliation bill does to help mitigate energy insecurity for disadvantaged communities and explains where the legislation falls short.  

“Trump’s apparent squirreling away of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and his outrage over the Justice Department’s investigation of that conduct, speaks once more to his vision of his own absolute authority—even after he has departed the presidency. It’s a vision that places Trump himself, rather than the Constitution and the rule of law, as the one true source of legitimate political power,” writes Quinta Jurecic in her latest op-ed.