By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...

Here in the DOGE era, the specter of inefficient bureaucracy haunts many government agencies. Yet the Social Security Administration offers a surprising counternarrative—at least in parts. As civil ...

US Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been directed "to facilitate the closure" of her own department — well, what’s left of it. The Trump administration's vow to essentially eliminate it appears ...

A growing chorus on the right is arguing that federal district court judges are acting in a biased or illegitimate manner because judges mostly appointed by Democratic presidents have ...

In what by now looks like a pattern, in his most recent phone call with President Trump, Vladimir Putin again rejected the White House ceasefire — and again piled up still more preconditions ...

Economics does not seem to be President Trump’s long suit. First, he promotes import tariffs as if they were the cure-all for the country’s trade deficit. And he does so without regard to ...

Reinventing American education may sometimes look like an intellectual exercise, but it’s ultimately a practical one. Would-be reformers are bursting with visions for the future of teaching and ...

On Sunday, March 15, I was invited by the 92nd Street Y, a Manhattan cultural hub that wrestles with big public policy dilemmas and ideas, to participate in a debate on school choice and charter ...