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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several years ago, political science professor Greg Weiner surveyed our political landscape and asked, “What space is left for prudence?” It’s a good question: at a time marked by major ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gordon Tullock wrote that government economists found capable of “firefighting” are assigned to do more of it, “with the result that the higher ranks of government economists aren’t able ...

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 ...

Social Security’s Old Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund is projected to be exhausted in 2033. Without intervening legislative action, current law dictates that benefits at that time would ...