Benjamin Franklin, Champion of the Wealth Tax
When we consider which of the nation’s Founding Fathers still provides wise counsel to us today, 250 years after they…
Marco Rubio’s Dangerous Diplomacy in Lebanon
While Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemed to maintain a low profile while the Iran war’s violence was at its…
Who Is Running America’s 250th Anniversary?
The United States will celebrate its 250th birthday tomorrow. The occasion has been marked by events all over the nation’s…
OMG—Socialism!
According to Gallup, 66 percent of self-identified Democrats have a positive image of socialism, while only 42 percent feel that…
What Broke Monticello
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation had spent a decade shifting the center of gravity away from solely Jefferson-as-genius and toward the…
Platner, Collins, and the Peculiar Definition of Political Scandal
If graft is seen as normal, the ability for reform and even progress feels remote.
VA Ignores Veteran Suicides in Private Facilities
Veterans die by suicide at a rate 50 percent higher than nonveterans—and nearly two-thirds of those deaths occur among men…
Trump’s Groundhog Day: Endless Cold War With Iran
We now have a pretty good picture of what the next few months will be like in Trump’s on-again, off-again…
The Supreme Court’s Zero-Sum Session
In the transgender sports cases, like everywhere else, someone has to win and someone has to lose.
The Assault on Congress’s Anti-Monopoly Solution
The Federal Trade Commission tried to prevent any single actor, including the president, from achieving monopoly control over enforcement.