Every American high schooler enrolled in a U.S. history course should be able to tell you that when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, the value of cotton grew exponentially. What made Whitney’s invention so innovative was how it made cotton processing more efficient, thus increasing the demand for labor. Students should also be able […]
Washington has finally decided to treat pharmaceutical supply chains as a national security risk, introducing new policies to wean America off foreign drug dependence. This strategy has been focused primarily, though not exclusively, on China. The Trump administration recently announced actions that will cut red tape for new drug manufacturing facilities by reforming permitting, reducing […]
Prices are about to go up — again — for the 83% of American households with at least one streaming subscription. The culprit behind this price hike, though, lies beyond America’s borders. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recently tripled the revenue that streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube must set aside to […]
Inaction on the abortion drug crisis will not come without consequences for this year’s midterm elections. As post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization retaliation dressed as COVID-19 relief, the Biden Food and Drug Administration removed the very last of any common-sense safety regulations on the abortion drug, mifepristone, making the dangerous drug available on demand […]
Washington does not typically indict foreign heads of state, deploy carrier strike groups to the Caribbean, and dispatch its CIA director on a surprise visit to Havana in the same week. When it does all three simultaneously, while delivering a direct public address to the target nation’s population, the moves represent a coordinated strategic signal. […]
Someone took my picture last week. “Smile,” she said. “I am smiling,” I said. “No,” she said, with a slight edge that I recognized immediately — the edge of someone who is trying to be patient with a difficult subject — “I mean, actually smile.” The problem, which I have never been able to solve, […]
Just before Christmas in 1961, a KGB major named Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the West after turning up unannounced at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki. He came bearing secrets, revealing to his slightly bewildered hosts that Western intelligence agencies had been penetrated for decades by rather excellent Soviet spies. At the center of this effort […]
The Department of Justice indicted 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al Saadi for directing nearly 20 attacks and plots against American and Jewish targets across Europe and the United States. This is not abstract terrorism. Kata’ib Hizballah, the Iranian proxy he commanded in Iraq, has the blood of hundreds of American service members on its […]
Discover how modernizing South Texas land ports boosts trade, cuts supply chain costs, and keeps America competitive—learn more about proposed upgrades.
In the 1990s, I asked Milton Friedman how I should approach charitable giving. His answer was to invest in school choice, a concept he had invented decades earlier. At the time, school choice barely existed. Now, it’s exploding. Friedman’s advice was right on — my bet has paid off. Now, it is time for all of […]
Much of the climate anxiety shaping millennial and Gen Z attitudes toward the future was manufactured through exaggerated predictions that are now being abandoned.
