There is a built-in incentive for regulators like the Food and Drug Administration to be cautious. Saying no rarely begets significant backlash. Saying yes means owning every negative headline for the next decade or more. So when the FDA does say yes, it’s worth paying attention. Recently, the agency authorized new e-cigarette products, citing data […]
Today, almost all the corn grown in America is genetically modified — 92% according to the USDA. What are those genetic modifications? We don’t know; the companies that hold those patents want to keep it secret. Keeping that information secret prevents them from facing competition when their patents expire. Four companies control more than half […]
When an air defense system intercepts 9 out of 10 rockets fired into civilian areas, it achieves something remarkable for civil defense. Yet in international opinion, that success frequently works against the state that built it. By denying adversaries the mass casualties they seek to inflict, Israel’s defense creates a strange political inversion. The absence […]
Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, Americans will again remember the smoke over lower Manhattan, the collapsing towers, and the passengers who fought back aboard Flight 93. We will honor the dead and repeat the vow: Never forget. But remembrance is not the same as understanding. We have remembered 9/11 as a terrorist atrocity, but we […]
President Xi Jinping’s upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24 provides a perfect opportunity to kick-start a mutually beneficial strategic reset aimed at forging an enduring modus vivendi between China and the United States. The key would be ensuring that over the next two years, the Chinese footprint within the […]
Don Corleone’s character in The Godfather is one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains. He was a fictional mobster transplanted to New York City in 1901 as a child, orphaned by mob violence in his native Sicily that took his family. He went on to create a crime family of great power, wealth, and influence. The […]
Congress has spent more than 15 months trying to answer a fundamental question confronting America’s digital asset industry: Who regulates what? On Sept. 15, the Senate will face a procedural cloture vote on the CLARITY Act that could determine whether Congress gets any closer to an answer. The dispute surrounding the CLARITY Act includes legitimate […]
Right now, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a secret war against Chinese Americans who fled persecution in China. The goal? To turn public opinion and the U.S. government against the Falun Gong spiritual practice. Ahead of CCP Chairman Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, I’m asking you to stand with Falun Gong practitioners […]
The scale of the AI data center build-out is staggering. Capital commitments have already hit hundreds of billions of dollars and are forecast to top a trillion by 2029, larger than the GDP of most countries. Massive campuses spread over thousands of acres are planned. As a microchip executive recently put it, “This is the […]
Today’s surge in oil company profits amid the Iran-driven energy shock has understandably generated accusations of profiteering and price gouging. I spent the first half of my career in the oil industry, so I recognize my own industry sympathies. I am also a committed free-market capitalist. But I have a gut-level discomfort with the juxtaposition […]
President Donald Trump demands a 30-foot George Washington statue replace the "Infinity" sculpture outside the National Museum of American History in Washington.
