The nation’s biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out.
Renewed interest in curtai...
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
— Stein’s Law, after economist Herbert Stein (1916-1999)
WASHINGTON — We all know that Stein’s Law will someday apply...
Is there any human impulse stronger than the urge to tell others what not to eat?
Fast food, red meat, white bread, trans fats, sugary cereals, processed foods, salty sn...
What is it about presidents’ second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments t...
Another tragedy at a Bangladesh clothing factory, another announcement by Wal-Mart about additional steps it will take to beef up worker safety, this time by inspecting ...
In requiring the U.S. Senate to confirm presidential appointments, the Constitution aims to ensure a second level of scrutiny of the qualifications of government officia...
In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris. Government leaders, elected or appointed, usually don’t intend to do the wrong thing, to ov...
Across this great land, patriotic Americans are behaving subversively.
We’re quoting from our pocket Constitutions, starting reading groups to discuss our founding docum...
AUSTIN, Texas - The twin revelations of the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying...
WASHINGTON — In any other time and place, $642 billion would qualify as a lot of money. But in the Washington of 2013, it has been reduced to pocket change. When the Con...
