George Washington was the father of our nation, a man seemingly cast from marble whose service, both in wartime and as president, made both its existence and survival possible. John Adams was his stubborn successor, celebrated years later for being a charming malcontent. Thomas Jefferson was the wordsmith of the Revolution. James Madison was its […]
It is clear by now that the end of the Cold War and the period of relative peace, globalization, and prosperity that ensued after the collapse of the USSR and its satellites was no end of history. Instead, the United States sat briefly alone at the helm of the world order, where it made a […]
President Donald Trump would be justified in striking a $700 million deal to sell jet aircraft engines to the Turkish air force. But he would make a serious strategic error if he sold F-35 stealth fighter jets to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. Asked Wednesday about the possibility of doing so, Trump said Erdogan “really […]
I was in Paris last week for a party to celebrate the wedding anniversary of old friends. I know that’s a polarizing sentence to read. People hear “Paris,” and they quickly feel as though they need to have an opinion. Sometimes it’s: Paris? In June? With all of those tourists? And sometimes it’s: Lotta snobby, […]
Why is President Donald Trump so tolerant of Iran’s diplomatic intransigence and military escalations? The question bears asking. After all, recent days have seen Iran both reject the latest U.S. negotiating position to end the conflict and successive Iranian attacks on U.S. and allied interests. The United Arab Emirates has suffered Iranian attacks, as have […]
As a teenager in 1976, I remember the excitement building up to the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Seemingly every clothing store, whether the elevated department stores of the day or the bargain clothing stores, was filled with red, white, and blue clothing to show our enthusiasm for the Fourth […]
Economists call it the “tragedy of the commons” — when people pursue short-term interests at a shared resource’s expense, they eventually destroy it for everyone. Fisheries collapse this way. Pastures go barren. And right now, something similar is happening to the American republic. What’s being depleted isn’t land or water. The constitutional ecosystem — the […]
The Left is good at theater. The Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais reinterpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for states to redraw majority-minority congressional districts. The response was immediate and predictable: rallies, social media outrage, Confederate flag burnings, and declarations of a second coming of […]
This essay is a part of The Right Way Forward, Restoring America’s new think tank debate series in which leading conservative institutions argue the defining questions of the post-Trump era. Read about the series here. Liberal economic policies typically include high taxes, high spending, high levels of regulation, restrictive labor and employment laws, government-sponsored enterprises, […]
America’s healthcare market is about to get less fair and more costly, thanks to a badly written new set of compliance and declaration rules from the Department of Labor. It’s not too late to stop it. The proposed rules come on the heels of February’s Consolidated Appropriations Act, which erected a comprehensive federal framework to […]
Abortions in the United States are overwhelmingly done via the abortion pill regimen, a two-pill procedure that utilizes mifepristone to cut off progesterone from the developing baby inside the womb and then misoprostol to expel the dead baby through uterine contractions. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals essentially ruled on May 1 that mifepristone could […]
When policymakers talk about the burden of energy costs on American families, the conversation tends to focus on rising utility bills and higher prices at the pump. But there’s a cost building quietly in the background — one that never appears on a receipt, never gets debated on the floor of Congress, and never shows […]
President Donald Trump had a good White House meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week. Now he should press to end Brazil’s discrimination against American tech companies. Brazil’s Bill 4675 imposes “burdensome, size-based obligations on a narrow set of American tech companies,” Americans for Tax Reform noted. The bill’s text is […]
