New York’s city comptrollers are supposed to safeguard taxpayer dollars, but many have treated the city pension funds they oversee as their own play...
The likely result: a broad drag on economic growth, with higher prices for consumers, slower innovation and weaker competitiveness for American firms internationally.
1971—In what politics professor Shep Melnick calls “one of the most confused and internally contradictory opinions ever issued by the Supreme Court,” Chief Justice Warren Burger’s...
While Americans fill their gas tanks for around $4.10 a gallon and $5.60 for diesel, Irish drivers and other Europeans are paying $8.55 for gas and nearly $9.60 for diesel. That is not a market accident. It is the direct result of Europe’s aggressive carbon taxes, excise duties, and net-zero ideology. In Ireland alone, the […]
When a member of Congress announces “resignation effective immediately,” Americans should hear the quiet click of an escape hatch locking behind them. That is exactly what Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) did this week. Gonzales first framed his exit as a dignified “retirement,” but facing mounting pressure, he reversed course in […]
Texans love to say, “As Texas goes, so goes America.” I would argue that what happens in Texas affects the world. In many ways, that has been true in the fight for religious liberty for the last 70 years. A new battle over religious liberty is brewing in the race to represent Texas in the […]