American entrepreneurs fuel this country through resilience, job creation and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity. Right now, they’re caught in the middle of a congressional standoff, and the economy is already showing signs of a steep decline. Millions of small-business owners and self-employed workers are bracing for what ...Read more

President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to end the filibuster to bring the month-long government shutdown to a close.

That’s a really bad idea, and the Republicans know it’s a really bad idea. They told us so when Democrats threatened to end the cloture rule after President Joe Biden was elected, and they were frustrated that an...Read more

A few weeks ago, your humble columnist took issue with the Trump administration’s legal rationale for the ongoing U.S. military campaign against drug traffickers in the southern Caribbean.

At that time, there was very little information to go on. President Donald Trump and his advisers generally kept their constitutional arguments close to ...Read more

Last Friday, the Illinois General Assembly narrowly passed a law allowing terminally ill people to end their own lives.

The legislation now awaits Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature. If he signs it, Illinois will join 11 other states (and the District of Columbia) that allow terminally ill adults to choose when and how they want to end their own ...Read more

In 2016, Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, declared an economic emergency to confront the country’s spiraling financial crisis. What was billed as a temporary measure quickly expanded – and never truly ended. The “state of emergency” was renewed repeatedly, granting the president sweeping authority to rule by decree. Venezuela’s...Read more

Policymakers shaping America’s coal policy can learn something important from the 2025 economics Nobel Prize winners about creative destruction, the process by which new technologies replace older ones through innovation. Just as smartphones overtook flip phones and cars displaced horses, such progress has improved our daily lives.

Instead of...Read more

King Charles III’s decision to strip his brother, the former Duke of York, of his last title as a royal prince is widely viewed in Britain as coming a decade too late. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, as he now becomes, has been bringing shame on the royal family for so long that he should have been exiled years ago.

It is, of course, Andrew’s ...Read more

On Election Day, I awoke to no fewer than seven press releases from the National Republican Senatorial Committee tying Democratic Senate candidates to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

It stands to reason. President Donald Trump’s job approval ratings are tumbling. Republicans control Congress. The economy is shaky. What better ...Read more

With resounding wins in Tuesday’s Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, Democrats substantially repaired the most important cracks that President Donald Trump made in their coalition in the 2024 election. That gives Democrats reason for optimism — though not yet certainty — that they are on track for a solid recovery in the 2026 ...Read more

What often follows devastating armed conflict are silence, amnesia and a desire to return to the status quo ante bellum. The more powerful party has little incentive to engage in reconstruction, contrition or negotiation about a political settlement.

Alternatively, a more aggressive model of justice demands that the losing side be held to ...Read more

Conservatives – true conservatives, as in the Ronald Reagan brand – have a problem. The movement has been invaded by the “alt-right” (or alternative right), a brand that is not conservative, but rather slogs through the mud of antisemitism and racism, staining all who support or refuse to denounce it.

This attempt to hijack conservatism...Read more

This year, for the first time, the Pentagon’s budget topped $1 trillion. We’re told this is to “support the troops.” Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. While tens of thousands of veterans are homeless and hundreds of thousands are going hungry the Pentagon is wasting billions on things like $1,500 coffee cups and $...Read more

If you want to live somewhere without mosquitoes, you’re running out of options. One of the world’s last remaining mosquito-free zones has been infiltrated by the bloodsuckers.

Three specimens of Culiseta annulata were found in the southwest of Iceland, leaving Antarctica as the only remaining refuge from the biters.

Scientists will be ...Read more

A decade ago, Delta Air Lines proudly announced that Wisconsin-based Lands’ End would partner with fashion designer Zac Posen to create new uniforms for more than 60,000 of its employees worldwide.

This was an assignment taken seriously: Lands’ End spent a couple of years shadowing workers, staging focus groups and providing prototypes for ...Read more

Former Vice President Dick Cheney died on Monday at 84. In a nation whose vice presidents tend to be forgotten by history when they don’t go on to become presidents themselves, Cheney will go down as a history-maker who left his mark on the office.

His “One Percent Doctrine” proved his lasting legacy. It continues to govern the national ...Read more

My late daughter, Katie Abraham, touched many lives, each in their own way. She had friends from every walk of life. She was kind, empathetic and endlessly curious. She made people feel seen and valued. Then her life was stolen by a criminal immigrant in the country illegally.

And she was also a young woman with a deep sense of fairness — ...Read more

The state of Illinois released new student performance data the day before Halloween, touting better reading and math proficiency and a higher graduation rate.

What state officials didn’t emphasize is that this year’s “improvements” come with a big asterisk. Illinois changed how it defines “proficiency,” lowering the bar for what ...Read more

Forty-five years ago, Mothers Against Drunk Driving had its first national press conference, and a global movement to stop impaired driving was born. MADD was founded by Candace Lightner after her 13-year-old daughter was struck and killed by a drunk driver while walking to a church carnival in 1980.

Terms like “designated driver” and the ...Read more

Last week, Paul Biya declared victory for an eighth term as president of Cameroon, an extremely poor Central African country suffering from two violent insurgencies, entrenched corruption and poor governance. With such a bad track record, it’s unsurprising that the results are widely disputed.

Biya, who is 92, has had plenty of time to prove...Read more

Schools have long declared themselves to be gun-free zones. It’s time to make them cellphone-free zones as well.

In October, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a paper on Florida’s cellphone ban in schools, which began two years ago. That allowed David Figlio, a University of Rochester economics professor, and Umut Özek, a ...Read more