Rigorous, independent research and analysis should undergird everything the government does. Nowhere is that more true than at the Environmental Protection Agency, which...
We Americans are having the wrong debate. Almost all the arguing over the Trump administration’s proposed tax cut centers on two issues. Will the tax reduction stimulate...
The reason why Flannery O’Connor and other Southern writers often wrote about “freaks,” she said, was because “we are still able to recognize one.” Writing about murdere...
’Tis the season of looking back, which brings us inevitably to Election Day 2016.
Donald Trump’s victory places last year as one of the most significant in modern Americ...
Conservatives are circling the wagons to guard their 2nd Amendment rights; liberals are calling for legislative remedies.
Equally familiar is the ramping up of rhetoric....
In Asia they tell a parable of an order of Buddhist monks who grow a certain strain of giant bamboo.
The monks bury a cutting of the bamboo’s root. They water it. They f...
Before the Texas church shooter encountered any police officers, he was run off a highway and dead. He had been shot and chased by two private citizens who took it upon ...
Call it the “North Korea challenge trip.”
President Trump embarked Sunday on a 13-day visit to Asia that will be the longest journey by any U.S. president since 1991, wh...
Should’ve been dead on Sunday morning banging my head, No time for mourning, ain’t got no time.
— From “My own Prison” Mark Tremonti and Scott Stapp
Pain and bewildermen...
It says something about the politics of tax reform that some of the best parts of the new Republican bill are its most politically vulnerable.
Tax cuts are easier to ena...
