7 political cartoons sum up the State of the Union

The skilled trades have become hot of late. That has many young people dropping plans to attend college.

Amid so many crises around the world, it’s easy to forget the scale of America’s debt problem. But a new report from the Congressional Budget Office puts the stakes in sharp relief: Even under the best circumstances, America’s finances are on track to get much worse.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was born 30 years ago out of real concerns for the future. Lawmakers feared that the early internet, fragile and experimental, would be smothered in lawsuits before it had the chance to become the marketplace of ideas many hoped it could become.

A solid indicator of the state of the union could be found in who was and who wasn't in the Capitol when President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday night to deliver his annual address to Congress.