For the better part of a decade, Washington has tried to force 21st-century financial technology into a tax code built for another era. The results are predictable: confusion, unnecessary compliance costs, arbitrary tax treatment, and a bureaucracy that makes ordinary people pay for Washington’s failure to keep pace. Today, buying a cup of coffee with […]

For the better part of a decade, Washington has tried to force 21st-century financial technology into a tax code built for another era. The results are predictable: confusion, unnecessary compliance costs, arbitrary tax treatment, and a bureaucracy that makes ordinary people pay for Washington’s failure to keep pace. Today, buying a cup of coffee with […]

Washington is reorganizing for cyber conflict in real time. In June, a proposal to create a separate U.S. Cyber Force was defeated 14-13 in the Senate Armed Services Committee. Now the National Security Agency is preparing what news reports describe as one of its most significant internal reorganizations in a decade, with five mission centers […]

The Justice Department’s new rule reviving a process for restoring certain rights to people with nonviolent felony convictions rightly recognizes that, instead of lifetime scarlet letters, we must narrowly tailor the collateral consequences of a conviction. Starting Monday, Americans with a nonviolent federal conviction can avail themselves of this process. Although the Second Amendment is […]