From the founding, Americans understood that a republic depends on the character and judgment of its citizens. In the years after the Revolution, that insight took shape ...
The sharp rise in gasoline prices caused by the Iran war has led to bipartisan calls, and in some cases action, to reduce U.S. gas taxes. At least three Republican-run st...
Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35%, than liberal, 28%, but this seven-point ...
Few dispute that America’s public debt is growing unsustainably and that, sooner or later, the task of reining it in will be unavoidable. Oddly, this presumption of inevi...
No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product — or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business p...
Healthy soil doesn’t usually make headlines, but it should.
Beneath every productive farm is a living system that quietly determines whether crops thrive or struggle, wh...
The resignations of three members of Congress over misconduct allegations demonstrate that the U.S. House — which most Americans think can’t get its act together — not on...
I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it.
In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evo...
