In the final analysis, government is not the chief actor that gets the economy perking again after some kind of setback or the other, but our free enterprise system, ent...
So what would the decline of America look like? I don’t ask the question because I think it’s happening (yet?), but because even the most inveterate optimist should be i...
Let’s travel back in time to 1995. Most Americans still remembered the calamitous inflation of the late 1970s (prices rose 13 percent in 1979). Many federal benefits, in...
When the fairy godmothers arrived at my crib shortly after I was born, they were probably stumped about what gift to bestow. Beauty, intelligence, humor and character ha...
It’s begun. We are having a debate over socialism.
Not over whether it’s fair to call Democrats socialists. Not over whether socialism has been good for Venezuela or so...
We’re searching for a description of the Chinese government’s behavior and can’t decide among bullying, extortion or coercion. The White House went with “Orwellian nonse...
At any given moment, nearly half a million Americans are awaiting trial in jail. Almost two-thirds of these people will remain incarcerated until their trial, including ...
Teachers are underpaid and overworked, and on top of these challenges, they’re expected to temper their feelings and opinions in order to teach children without insertin...
There was once a time when a leitmotif of humor ran through our national politics. But not today. A somber mood envelops the White House and Capitol Hill.
There is certa...
President Donald Trump’s decision to offer America’s farmers a $12 billion bailout makes his disastrous trade policies worse.
Part of the $12 billion in federal money wi...
