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Collateral Damage for the Coal Industry?

A lawsuit over ESG policies could have unintended consequences.

What Would George Washington Do?

Adhering to Washington’s ‘Rules of Civility’ would probably solve a good deal of our cultural problems.

Religious Freedom Is Syria’s First Test

Syria’s future depends on whether it will protect its most vulnerable citizens — Christians and Kurds.

Trump Was Always Wrong About the Trade Deficit

Economists have been vindicated in their prediction that tariffs would hardly affect the overall balance of trade.

The Duke of hazard

“Now is the winter of our discontent made an inglorious bummer by this Duke of York.” My mangled version of the words that open Shakespeare’s tragedy, Richard III, might forgivably have been muttered crossly this week by King Charles III following the arrest of his younger brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew and Duke of […]

Obama admits Housing First was a losing strategy

Last weekend, former President Barack Obama acknowledged a blunt political reality: “The average person doesn’t want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown … and we’re not going to be able to generate support [for treatment] if we simply say, ‘It’s not their fault, they should be able to […]

End the climate lawsuit feeding frenzy

The Supreme Court faces a fateful decision in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. If it declines to take up the case and fails to slam the door on Boulder County’s audacious climate change lawsuit, the climate litigation free-for-all that will follow could cripple American energy and critically undermine our federal system. After law school, […]

Will Trump choose Xi’s favor or Taiwan’s defense?

Last December, the Trump administration announced the largest arms sale to Taiwan in history: an $11 billion weapons package that included everything from drones and Javelin missiles to the HIMARS rocket systems. The sale, which still needs to be formally submitted to Congress, provided Taiwanese officials with a bit of relief. After all, Trump has often sounded ambivalent about […]

Taliban faces new US pressure on hostages

After failing to obtain the release of three U.S. prisoners from Taliban custody using the ‘carrot’ method, U.S. leaders suddenly appear prepared to deploy the stick. On Feb. 13, Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council Sebastian Gorka noted on X, “we will not rest until Dennis Coyle and Mahmood Habibi come home.” This was a […]

Bringing our national airspace into the 21st century

Sometimes watching an old movie can feel like opening a time capsule. Nostalgia for some, younger audiences laugh at the use of brick-sized cellphones, cassette tapes, and floppy disks — technologies that were once cutting-edge. While most of the technology Americans rely on today is circa 2020s, one critical system remains behind the times. If […]

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