With the NFL preseason in full swing, I can’t help thinking about the incremental neurological damage that’s being inflicted on the players with each vicious tackle and violent collision. The damage — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease better known as CTE — has often been decades in the making. Chris Nowinski, the former […]
History should be the Federal Reserve’s best teacher in September. It has already shown what happens when central banks answer an energy shock with higher interest rates: employment weakens, investment retreats, and policymakers eventually reverse course after families and businesses have absorbed unnecessary damage. The Fed can learn that lesson now, or make working Americans […]
King Abdullah II is in Beijing this week, his first visit to China since 2015. The instinct in Washington will be to treat that as a warning sign: a treaty ally’s king courting Xi Jinping, right as commentators reach for words like “hedge” and “pivot.” The honest answer to whether Washington should care is: a […]
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment won't be getting any help from the new head of the U.S. Archives, who says he won't be the one to declare it officially a part of the Constitution.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cleared the way for President Trump to keep building his new ballroom at the White House, putting on hold a lower court ruling that had said he needed Congress's permission.
