After the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, lawmakers now have time to plan the next business tax reform. Such a reform should tax business income neutrally and eliminate the pass-through ...

When I was training to be a teacher, my professors loved to stand at a lectern and lecture—at length—on how teaching was about so much more than lecturing. “He who does the talking does the learning,” ...

The first Trump administration correctly identified the People’s Republic of China as the main trade problem. Not only has the second term been less focused, but China no longer seems to be a ...

Meta recently announced it would expand Project Hyperion, its data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, into a 5-gigawatt, $50 billion facility that will be one of the largest AI ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act ended the Grad PLUS loan program for new borrowers and replaced it with annual and aggregate limits on federal borrowing that came into effect on July 1, 2026. Students ...

In The Sun Also Rises, when one of Hemmingway’s characters was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “first gradually and then suddenly”. As 30-year US bond yields climb to their highest level since ...

While significant healthcare policymaking in Congress has become sporadic and uneven, the executive branch, led by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has filled the void by driving ...

The last few weeks should end any illusion that the United States can improvise its way through frontier AI policy. What we have witnessed was not serious governance. It was vibe policymaking: ad hoc, ...

The dust from major fights takes time to settle. Judging by the fighting that flared in recent days, the US-Iran war is not yet over. And the global implications of that conflict — its effects on ...

For the first year of the second Trump presidency, JD Vance served primarily as the White House’s designated tough guy. Rather than a softener of Trumpian harshness, he was charged with being (or ...

There was a brief, shining moment right after the 2024 election when it seemed like the Democratic Party might move closer to the views and values of the working-class voters it was so obviously ...