The rising federal deficit, which is driven entirely by spending growth, is out of control. Last year, for the first time ever, the federal government spent more on interest payments on debt, $950 billion, than it did on defense, $826 billion, which is a data point in a lamentable category of shocking but also inevitable. […]
Anybody who watched the entire Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky would know that it was not an “ambush” or...
Going forward, Israel must still meet its three goals: get the hostages home, destroy Hamas’ military and administrative power and ensure Gaza can never...
Without Congress’ help, warns Reason’s Veronique de Rugy, President Trump “will fail to deliver on his promise to the American people to bring prices...
Left-wing mobs trying to shut down “controversial” speakers on college campuses is not exactly a new phenomenon. But what just happened at Stanford University may be the most ironic campus censorship effort of all time. On Feb. 25, two left-of-center economists, Larry Summers, a moderate Democrat, and Emmanuel Saez, a progressive, participated in a debate […]
The government's messages to school districts and universities are basically a shakedown: Comply with our enlightened vision or risk a civil rights probe that...
The Senate leader's iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed to...
Anti-police radicals will call Tisch’s quality-of-life unit racist, abusive and illegal — the same arguments, and the policies they created, that caused New York’s...
Like other Cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving quickly to undo long-standing progressive policies. New HUD Secretary Scott Turner has asserted that the agency is now “DEI-free.” Perhaps even more significantly, the agency is considering implementing time limits and work requirements for tenants of public and subsidized housing. Although we should […]
Fifteen years after Obamacare’s passage, Indiana may finally fix that broken law’s signature policy. Lawmakers are moving to repeal and replace the state’s Medicaid expansion, transforming it into a more sustainable program that moves hundreds of thousands of able-bodied adults from welfare to work. Indiana’s reform should inspire other states, to say nothing of leaders […]
Still reeling from the breakneck pace and audacity of President Donald Trump’s first two weeks in office, the New Republic‘s Michael Tomasky made an intriguing comparison. “Trump 1.0,” he observed, “was a Jackson Pollock—splat splat all over the place. Trump 2.0 is painting within very precise lines. It’s terrifying.” Tomasky was right. In his first […]
