“People of the same trade seldom meet together,” warned Adam Smith 250 years ago, “even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some ...

Some of the most important things in history are things that didn’t happen–even though just about everyone thought they would. Recent example: Scads of liberals gleefully predicted that the financial ...

The best way to gauge the success of American political movements is not by the depth to which they shape their native party, but the breadth to which they extend into the opposing side. By that ...

In 2024, the Biden administration killed a proposed merger between Spirit Airlines and JetBlue. If the two companies were to join forces, declared then-attorney general Merrick Garland, it would ...

Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Roy Blunt (Missouri), and Rick Scott (Florida) in D.C. in May 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Regarding George F. Will’s March 19 column, “The ...

Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration’s agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms. By ...

J. K. Rowling Sides with the Women Who Pay the Price for Trans Activism Go Ahead and Hug Your Grandchild Mark writes, "The American people are not feeling (at the moment, that is) the effects — the ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously said, “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” Friedman’s statement, clear and to the point, is supported by a mountain of ...

This Pew Research Center analysis examines Americans’ views of problems facing the country. Pew Research Center conducts research to help the public, media and decision-makers understand important ...

President Trump and the Republicans in Congress insist that the election gave them a public mandate to massively reduce the federal government. They claim that the mass firings of government workers ...

Important policy issues are complex, characterized by many theoretical, philosophical, operations management, and practical features. One consequence is that their essential features are obscured, and ...