Hoo boy, today has been chock full of angst for Donald Trump supporters and haters alike. First, there’s the Carrier decision that Sarah Palin calls “crony capitalism.” Megan McArdle also is upset and likens it to the GM bailout. Next,…
The 2016 election proved a lot of Washington, D.C., insiders wrong. But some pundits continue to perpetuate the myth that millennials are overwhelmingly socialist. Nothing could be further from the truth — millennials love free markets and hate government control….
From celebration to soul-searching, post-election analysis is everywhere. While top-of-the-ballot results dominate headlines and your news feed, don’t miss the dramatic shift that occurred election night in Pennsylvania. Republicans achieved historic majorities in both chambers. In the state House, Republicans will…
The mayor of Dallas uses the word “bankruptcy,” and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal swoop in to report on the city’s imminent doom. The mayor of Houston holds a press conference to declare the pension problem solved, and folks just go…
Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States has left liberal environmental activists and international climate bureaucrats reeling. Just one of the many examples of the widespread depression expressed by environmentalists appeared in a recent issue of…
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….
One of New York City’s oldest bars recently was shut down for a few days. McSorley’s Old Ale House has operated in the East Village for 162 years and even kept its doors open during Prohibition. (It peddled “near beer” during…
House and Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to prevent the Obama administration from executing a last-minute end run around Congress to bail out insurers that lost money on Obamacare. Rep. Morgan Griffith put forward a bill in the House last…
If President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress really want to “drain the swamp,” they are going to have to do more than repeal and replace Obama’s policies and exclude a few lobbyists from the…
Lagging job growth, rising taxes and coercive union tactics created an appetite for labor reform throughout the rust belt states. Transforming Labor, the latest policy report from the Commonwealth Foundation, ranks states on their progress toward reforms that can produce…
