Opinion

With average mortgage rates now dipping below 6% for the first time in years, many people are taking a fresh look at their housing options. After a period defined by high borrowing costs and limited inventory, falling rates are renewing interest among first-time buyers, growing families, and homeowners considering a move. As this renewed activity […]

The Trump administration on Friday, March 20, issued a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence. The goal is to create uniform federal safety and security guardrails and prevent states from enacting their own AI rules. Getting these measures approved and implemented could take several months, if not years. However, there’s one area […]

America is an incredibly litigious society, spending more than $300 billion per year, or nearly $1,000 per person, on tort litigation. Every day, trial lawyers searching for hefty payouts are finding new products to target and new clients to take on. They may have just found the ultimate jackpot: the digital domain. A Los Angeles […]

A gaming company CEO asked his lawyers if he could avoid a payout of upwards of $250 million to the studio he had acquired. They told him the plan would trigger lawsuits. He asked an AI chatbot the same question. It gave him a step-by-step playbook. He followed the chatbot. A Delaware court recently ruled […]

Conservatives often disagree about wars, but virtually no one likes nation-building. President Donald Trump has so far managed to avoid it in his military interventions. Trump would surely like to do so again in Iran, but whether he will be successful raises the question of why the United States so often finds itself engaged in […]

“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. All issues are women’s issues, […]

Average tax refunds are reportedly up 10% this year, but easing Americans’ distrust of how Uncle Sam spends the money it keeps is not disappearing anytime soon. According to 2025 polling from the Cato Institute, the average adult believes that 59 cents of every federal tax dollar is “wasted” — up from 38 cents in […]

Betting on elections and economic data may be the newest frontier in “finance,” but it is still gambling. And while Congress has the power under the commerce clause to regulate that interstate activity, it has not clearly handed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a blank check to bulldoze 50 states’ gambling regulatory regimes in the […]

U.S. policy toward Iraq continues to rest on an assumption that no longer reflects reality: that Iraq functions as a coherent partner with centralized authority over its security institutions. It does not. What exists instead is a fragmented system in which formal state structures operate alongside powerful internal networks, including actors aligned with Iran’s Islamic […]

Why is the legacy media parroting Iranian propaganda justifying war crimes? The city of Dimona “is home to Israel’s nuclear program,” CNN’s Jessica Dean falsely described the southern Israeli city hit on March 21 in an Iranian missile strike that injured dozens, including a 12-year-old boy in serious condition. “Israel says Iranian missile struck town […]

Forget about a six-year timetable to reform and save Social Security before its 2032 insolvency. The clock to direct the reform is closer to one year for Republicans or three years for Democrats. Sustainable reform is of greatest consequence for both the program and America’s future prosperity.  Politics makes the timetable real: True reform is […]