“Reclaiming Affordability” is an op-ed series in partnership between the Independent Women and the Washington Examiner. Each day this week, a policy expert at Independent Women will tackle the top concern on the minds of voters this election cycle from a different angle, putting forth realistic solutions to the affordability crisis. This past year, a […]
It’s tempting to try to forget the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody likes to dwell on bad memories. But we do ourselves no favors if we forget how the federal, state, and local governments responded to the crisis — especially the public health bureaucracies. From the possible source of the virus in China to the effectiveness of […]
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are rightly focused on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in taxpayer-funded programs. But in their search for bad actors who are bilking the public for billions of dollars, the White House and Congress shouldn’t only focus on famously porous welfare programs such as Medicaid and food stamps. They […]
A new YouGov poll contains an interesting discovery, which made sense but was, at the same time, infuriating. The two ends of the political spectrum respond in opposite ways when asked whether allies should support the United States. Conservatives say yes. Liberals? Not so much. That is a no-brainer. The answer should be an unequivocal […]
When Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez forbade U.S. forces from using Spanish bases to support the war in Iran and then banned U.S. military overflights, President Donald Trump was furious, but Sanchez stood firm. “We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world,” Sánchez declared in a Mar. 4 […]
A year ago today, President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs, taxes on Americans that constantly changed, seemingly at the presidential whim. Since then, they have raised prices for everyone, increased costs for domestic manufacturers, and unleashed a wave of uncertainty across an economy that had been recovering from the Biden years. During the first few […]
Fraud pervades nearly every large program the state administers. This represents an abysmal performance by state government –– a record that calls for change, accountability,...
When President Trump left the courtroom midway through the argument in the case challenging his birthright-citizenship executive order, he was signaling what all of us...
