People have made it clear that they want affordable, reliable, and clean energy. For too long, Washington’s energy policy has been distorting free markets to pick winners and losers, while spending trillions of taxpayer dollars in an effort to reduce emissions.

Beltway silliness is as unavoidable as the summer humidity because rent-seeking groups, both economic and ideological, have powerful incentives to advocate legislation that would advance their interests at the expense of the economy in the aggregate. Nor is it difficult to find officeholders to make their arguments for them, even though, or perhaps because, they know better.

At least 39 people were killed after a fire broke out late Monday night at a Mexican migrant facility near the U.S. border. Another 29 people were injured in the blaze and have been transferred to local hospitals, according to Mexico’s National Migration Institute. The migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez — just across the border...

Former President Trump in a new interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity claimed he would “solve” Russia’s yearlong war in Ukraine in 24 hours if he’s reelected to the White House, but didn't offer details. “If it's not solved, I will have it solved in 24 hours with Zelensky and with Putin,” Trump told...

Former President Trump in a new interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity shook off the investigation into his handling of classified documents and dodged a question about whether he denied authorities access to the materials they sought.  “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from...

Here are the top nine conflicts that will drive American politics for the rest of this decade and possibly beyond. Globalization vs. nationalism / The election of Donald Trump ushered in the collapse of the Cold War consensus, the idea shared by Republicans and Democrats that global American hegemony in the face of the Soviet...

Virginia state Del. Danica Roem (D) and Speaker of the Pennsylvania House Joanna McClinton (D) are among those nominated for this year’s Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award, an honor EMILYs List presents to women serving in local office. The nominees for the annual award from EMILYs List — which works to elect Democratic, pro-choice women in...

After 15 years of telling Americans how bad they have it, it’s time to offer them an exciting picture of how today’s economic changes and technological advances can make our lives better.

Police in Nashville, Tenn., late Monday released surveillance video showing the 28-year-old shooter who killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school firing through the building's doors and walking through its hallways armed.  The soundless footage shows the shooter arriving in a silver Honda Fit, then shooting the locked glass doors to...

Nearly everywhere in the world, legislatures are consistently the least popular branch of government — a fact that has been exacerbated in recent years by polarization and gridlock, and which is often underpinned by the sense that representatives are corrupt and ineffectual. Authoritarian powers — including adversaries such as China and Russia — have sought...