If politics and policy were twin babies, politics would be first out, screaming for food and attention. Policy would be busy thinking of life beyond the crib. Where politics looks for quick fixes, policy seeks long-term solutions. If ever there…
President-elect Donald Trump’s recent crowning as Person of the Year by Time was perhaps the least surprising choice for that pick in decades. But that doesn’t mean there was nothing interesting in the magazine’s profile of the newly elected commander-in-chief….
Those of us who have spent too much time following the so-called achievements of our elected “public servants,” especially at the federal level, are sadly aware of the adage popularized by M. Stanton Evans that “We have two parties here…….
The unexpected outcome of last month’s election loosed the horrors of the liberal imagination. The America that we all “knew” to exist doesn’t. “They” are coming to round up all of society’s victims. Of course, we’re still waiting. (With luck,…
For some reason, Republicans want to delay Obamacare repeal for three years. The Manhattan Project detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb in less time, but the U.S. healthcare industry supposedly needs 36 months to go back to how things were…
Igor Volsky, Think Progress alumnus and current Deputy Director for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, voiced outrage at President-elec Donalt Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor, Andrew Puzder. Mr. Puzder is a CEO famous for his sexy burger…
Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy got it wrong. Contrary to the claims in this week’s highly publicized report, e-cigarettes and other vapor devices are not a threat to the health of youth, young adults, pregnant women or anyone else. The…
December 5 was Repeal Day. Eighty-three years have passed since that dreadful social experiment, Prohibition, was killed. We think we are living in strange times — but what a weird era that was. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and what an…
Donald Trump knows how to terrify people. First, the conservatives watched, with anxiety, as the concerned Al Gore waddled up to Trump Tower to talk Climate with Ivanka. Then, Democrats reeled in horror as The Donald nominated regulation fighting Scott…
Editor’s Note: This piece is an ongoing investigative series in partnership with Watchdog.org’s state-level journalists. Pension budget woes beset nearly every state in the union and cities and municipalities are also being hit with unprecedented pension debt. Baby boomers are retiring….
