It isn’t often that economics raises the most profound questions of human existence, but recent work of economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (husband and wife, both of ...
President Barack Obama all but declared a war on coal. Companies could build all the coal mines they wanted to, he said, but he would make sure it bankrupted them. Hilla...
The obituary for 23-year-old Brittany Kock was gut-punchingly raw. Her parents shared the cause of their only child’s death without sugar-coating or blame, and their own...
He gave repeal a try, Obama-Care is still standing and now President Donald Trump is flat on his back, or so goes the narrative. He’s not. He is taking on sluggard, inef...
The U.S. white working class is in big trouble. The data is piling up.
Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have a new paper out, exploring mortality trends in the U.S....
There’s stumbling out of the gate, and then there’s what Republicans just did on health care.
They came up with a substantively indefensible bill, put it on an absurd f...
President Donald Trump took some shots at Democrats for not supporting the Republican “replacement” for the Affordable Care Act, and he had a little chagrin for the Free...
After a week that began with the FBI disclosing that it’s investigating President Donald Trump’s campaign team for possibly colluding with Russia to tilt the 2016 electi...
“Winning is everything,” Donald Trump often said as he campaigned for president. “Nothing is presidential except victory.”
Last week, Trump suffered a major defeat when ...
In an ideal world, politics is the means by which we resolve competing interests without losing sight of the principle that every politician’s first responsibility shoul...
