Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to ban food dyes has sparked controversy and debate. While the temptation to use government to enforce accountability is tempting, Americans must remember that government intervention always comes at a cost. Here are five reasons…
It turns out the assassination of the CEO of the largest health insurance company in America on the streets of Manhattan by a masked gunman using a silencer amounted to the least shocking aspect of this crime. Even revelations by…
Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America By David McCormick (Center Street, 320 pages, $29) Can America bring itself back from the brink, or is it doomed to a cataclysmic end? It shouldn’t come as a surprise that…
Attendees of last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos experienced something not typically witnessed at the elitist conclave — full-throated critiques of the group and its aspirations. The recently elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei, in an electric speech condemning…
The top news story in Washington and with big media nationwide is that the multi-billion dollar mis-named Inflation Reduction Act and other policy victories will not only solve inflation but everything from global warming (or is that climate change?) to…
Industrial policy is making a comeback. For those of you under the age of 50, this is just another term for corporate welfare — a lovely name for the unlovely practice of a government granting subsidies, protective tariffs, and other…
It’s well known that Joe Biden — who regularly rode the Amtrak train between Wilmington and Washington as a senator and to his 2021 presidential inauguration — loves trains, always touting their environmental efficiency and value to the U.S. economy….
In February 2009, the last time Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden flew to Colorado to sign their $787 billion stimulus package into law. The plan was to…
Sacramento California’s housing crisis has such an obvious cause that even many of the state’s Democratic lawmakers now acknowledge it. Local and county governments have for decades discouraged the construction of housing tracts through slow-growth ordinances, global-warming policies, environmental laws…
California housing prices are through the roof. The state’s median home price is already more than double that of the national average. In large part, this is due to restrictive zoning and a closed-minded attitude towards reform that has left…
