Federal Reserve policymakers raised the benchmark interest rate just days after President Trump said the United States should have "the lowest interest rates in the world."

A June inflation report and the Federal Reserve chair's testimony provided a look at where the U.S. economy has been and where it's headed.

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Idris Elba’s ‘vulnerable’ character is a clear message that thinking people need not and should not resort to brutish resistance. Share Warning: spoilers ahead. Watching the new Apple TV+ Idris Elba vehicle “Hijack,” the philosophy of the show is…

Stephens Garage in Luverne, Ala. Photo: Daniel Lee Luverne, Ala.

Mike Pence speaks at a campaign event in Ankeny, Iowa, June 7. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press Decades before he turned back Donald Trump’s effort to halt certification of the 2020 election, Mike Pence pedaled up to the small Rushville,…

Three years ago, I was in St. Pete Beach, Fla., as the reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic was accelerating. On Monday I waited an hour for a seat in Skidder’s Restaurant. Then Gov. Ron DeSantis closed bars and limited restaurants to 50% capacity. By…

Michigan City, Ind. A 200-foot sand dune called the Hoosier Slide once loomed, bald and imposing, on the shore of Lake Michigan in northwest Indiana. Visible from Chicago, it was the most prominent of a line of post-Ice Age dunes along the great…

Once you had to go to Nevada to wager legally on the big game. Now most can do it from the couch. Princeton, Ind. We gambled a little at the Gibson County Ambulance Service in the late 1970s. Nothing serious, a bit of quarter and dollar poker between…

Activists wasted no time attributing last week’s tragic tornado outbreak in the Midwest to climate change. My hometown in southwest Indiana would like a word. Princeton, Ind., was the final community struck by the terrible 1925 Tri-State tornado…

The ghost tales we heard in a local cemetery had nothing on the real lives of the people buried there. Princeton, Ind. Near the YMCA’s Camp Carson here in southwest Indiana, there is a tiny abandoned cemetery hidden beyond a steep, weedy road cut.…

A golf course dedicated to tradition proves it’s easier to defend certain values than it is to recover them. Mackinac Island, Mich. Play the 123-year-old Wawashkamo Golf Course on Michigan’s Mackinac Island and you won’t soon forget it, not least…

A progressive cultural institution issues a groveling mea culpa for a poorly worded job posting. Indianapolis “Battle Between Carnival and Lent” is a 17th-century oil painting by Jan Miense Molenaer in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of…

With Confederate soldiers on one side and Union soldiers on the other, my family shows how our differences don't have to divide us. Opinion contributor My maternal great-great grandfather finished the Civil War at Hart Island Prisoner of War camp,…

My ancestors lie on a peaceful tree-covered hill overlooking the site of the Battle of Atlanta. Atlanta Sylvester Cemetery clings to a steep, magnolia- and oak-covered hillside east of downtown Atlanta, on ground where Federal and Confederate troops…

With the Indy 500 postponed until August, it’s been an unusually quiet spring in Indianapolis. Indianapolis For more than a century the month of May has meant one thing in Indiana: The Indianapolis 500, our annual celebration of spring and the…

Retail and grocery workers persevere, wondering which is worse: disease or economic devastation? Greenwood, Ind. Employees now receive health checks at the department store where I work part-time. I’m asked about fevers and chills, unexplained…

A bit of video has been making the rounds of the Internet lately, showing at some distance a guy on a swing set. The distance and the low light in the clip makes it one of those reversible images; he seems at first to be swinging with his back to…

Online retailers are doing to the mall what the mall once did to my hometown of Princeton, Indiana. Indianapolis This time of year, the late-night sky southeast of the city sparkles with what looks like a long line of evening stars: transport jets…

Wielding force is nothing compared with the power of controlling, disciplining and managing it. Recently I found a fascinating remnant of America’s long relationship with guns: a 1956 Life magazine about a conservation officer teaching firearm safety…