The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties, neither capable of sustaining a durable winning coalition. Both parties have plausible avenues to build a ...

Although the Trump administration initiated the antitrust case against Google, it is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s antitrust team—formulated under the leadership of Jonathan Kanter, Lina Khan ...

The aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) has put a spotlight on the capriciousness of admissions practices at selective colleges.

You might be better off despite the trade-offs, but choices have consequences or costs. Americans would be better served if our politicians, policymakers, and policy commentators honestly highlighted ...

Last week a judge unsealed a 165-page legal brief with damaging new revelations about President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The revelations have been ...

As wars have ravaged Ukraine and the Middle East in 2024, the situation around Taiwan has been comparatively quiet. The crisis many observers were expecting when the year began hasn’t erupted ...

Although few yet see it coming, humans are about to enter a new era of history. Call it “the age of depopulation.” For the first time since the Black Death in the 1300s, the planetary ...

Attending Stanford over two decades ago was a privilege. I was surrounded by brilliant faculty, bright peers, and a great basketball team. But I relish my time at Stanford because I was often ...

The battle over free speech in America has been raging for some time now, with revelations about tech companies’ suppression of criticisms of Covid dogma, and more recently, on the question of ...

This paper empirically estimates sustainable sovereign debt limits for 27 OECD countries, updating the model in Ghosh et al. (2013). We assess fiscal reaction functions, confirming the fiscal ...

Sir Isaac Newton famously said of the stock market that he could calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men. We have to wonder what he might have said about today’s ...