Tim Fernholz

When will SpaceX fly again?

The success of local minimum wage laws and referenda in recent years have been a rare bright spot for Americans worried about wage stagnation and inequality.

After Boeing’s CEO fretted publicly about president-elect Donald Trump’s anti-trade views, Trump attacked the company on Twitter, exaggerating the costs of a Boeing project to build new jets for the US president and threatening to cancel the contract.

Foreclosures helped put Donald Trump in the White House, and his choice for Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, was in a good position to understand how.

The Atlas rocket is a favorite of the US military, but its manufacturer, United Launch Alliance (ULA), needs to drum up commercial business for it. How else but with a snazzy website?

The global race back to the moon has a fourth entrant: TeamIndus, an Indian enterprise, has secured a contract with the Indian government for a rocket that will fly a probe to the moon in 2017 in an attempt to win the $30 million Google Lunar XPrize.

President-elect Donald Trump and his future VP Mike Pence will say today that they convinced the Carrier Corporation to keep 800 jobs in the US rather than move them to Mexico, but their deal demonstrates how much leverage corporations have to force the president-elect to do their bidding.

The new Trump International Hotel in Washington DC is a ticking time bomb for Donald Trump, and not just because foreign countries seeking to win his favor are already planning events there to line the US president-elect’s pockets.

Here’s one of the terms know if you’re following Donald Trump’s efforts to restructure the American health care system next year: “Block grant.”

The death of Fidel Castro could be an opportunity to further normalize relations between the United States and Cuba, but president-elect Donald Trump seems unlikely to take it.

The US marijuana industry’s vibrant growth in the grey area of federalism could be threatened by president-elect Donald Trump and his preferred choice for attorney general, Alabama senator Jeff Sessions.

NASA’s scientific mission doesn’t make the US space agency immune to the politics of presidential transitions. After all, there are billions of dollars of programs and funding at stake.

Donald Trump disputes claims that his presidential transition is in disarray, blaming leaks from job-seekers for a creating a false picture.

Donald Trump won the US presidential election in part on a promise to bring jobs back to the US. But thanks to the reaction in the currency markets, his victory has only made it easier for US companies to send jobs to other countries—Mexico in particular.

In a motion filed over the weekend, attorneys for US president-elect Donald Trump asked a judge (pdf) to postpone his civil fraud trial, citing the burdens of transitioning to the White House as a “political novice.” The trial was set to begin in 15 days.

Donald Trump’s campaign spent nearly as much money on Facebook ($56 million) as on TV ($68 million) to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

A longtime Russian diplomat claims Moscow was in regular contact with Donald Trump’s team during the presidential campaign.

The shock of Donald Trump’s election and the need to explain it has led to an informal contest: Who can find the most terrifying premonition of the US political cataclysm, establishing once and for all that we shoulda seen it coming?

When this race became a referendum on what it means to be an American, Hillary Clinton thought she had victory in her sights.

The results of the 2016 election will not be kind to Barack Obama’s legacy—especially with a Republican majority in both houses of Congress.

Donald Trump has spent decades in the spotlight, as wealthy real-estate developer, a reality-television star, and, in the past year and a half, an extremely effective political agitator, if not a smooth political operator. We know what he is like, and it is unreasonable to think that the office of the United States president will change much of it. The question now is what he will do.

With preliminary election results flooding in on the east coast, ABC and NBC have projected that Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives.

It’s possible to keep two ideas in your head at once: That Hillary Clinton is leading in the polls, and that Donald Trump could still win the election.

The US unemployment rate dropped below 5% last month, after the economy created more than 166,000 jobs, according to today’s government jobs report. And wages continued their gradual push higher.