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Ramesh responds to my case for restoring the filibuster to its traditional rules: Whether we should have a filibuster, and if so whether we should...
Ramesh Ponnuru has a great column in the Washington Post about why the Senate should not eliminate the filibuster as a political check on shallow and...
Despite what RFK Jr. says, mRNA-based vaccines have the potential to be groundbreaking. It came as a pleasant surprise this morning to see that one...
On the burgeoning burrito discourse, Jim Geraghty asks, "Why is food more expensive?" since the pandemic. A wide variety of reasons. Eggs...
The Government Accountability Office (which is within the legislative branch, not the executive, thank goodness) has a solid report out today,...
I will try to get through this calmly. Thomas Kean Jr. is a Republican congressman running for reelection in a highly affluent New Jersey...
Enough time has passed for a conclusion: Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and there is essentially nothing we can do about it. No new deal, no...
Government regulations often impose different costs under different conditions, thereby altering firms’ behavior by changing which activities are...
Many of the responses to the editors' and my assessment that monetary policy remains too loose are based on the notion that inflation would not...
The Federal Reserve voted yesterday (wrongly, in my view) to keep interest rates where they are, despite persistent inflation above the Fed’s...
When slapping new tariffs of 50 percent on Canadian goods, the Trump administration offered the pretext that Canada imposes its own protectionist...
My new state makes a good first impression. From the southern border shared with North Carolina up through the center, it's exactly as you would...
I’m not exactly sure why, but the sense I get from North Carolina is sturdiness. This state just feels solid. Built to last. Nicely settled. This is...
The Palmetto State is not naturally hospitable in July. Its drenching goulash of heat and humidity makes you feel like you're walking through a...
Savannah, Ga., is not the oldest city in America, but it sure wants you to think it is. The downtown has been painstakingly preserved and restored —...
I asked around, and people here do love the governor! But seriously, though. The name has fallen out of fashion, but Birmingham, Ala., was once dubbed...
Talk about an old city turned young. Nashville was founded on Christmas Eve in 1779, located in the western frontier of the North Carolina territory...
When Chuck Berry sang about his hometown in 1959, St. Louis was coming off its peak. The 1950 census put the city's population at more than...
When I was a child, I had moderately bad OCD. Not so much an aversion to germs or a set of superstitious rituals, but a painful anxiety related to...
The president wants beef prices to fall to relieve consumers, except when he wants them to rise to aid cattle ranchers. He is learning through...
In the post announcing my grand, cross-country American adventure at 250, I wrote that, after emerging from the Rocky Mountains, I would be...
Our editorial today asks, "If the Fed is not executive, what is it?" Principally, it is a system composed of twelve chartered corporations,...
A name change for the Rockies may be in order. If you're looking for rocks, stay in Utah. That state has all the rocks you will need in many...
To drive from Capitol Reef to eastern Utah, you need to first go through the Fremont River Canyon. We thought the sky overhead was darkened by the...
We woke up in Torrey, Utah, in a haze. Apparently, some numbnut in Southwest Utah started a wildfire whose smoke is currently enveloping the Rocky...
Driving into northern Utah, you notice something different almost immediately. The rural, hilly landscape isn't much different from Idaho's...
Looks like I wasn't finished with Idaho just yet. Our host in Sun Valley told us that, rather than get back on the main highway, we should take...
The road from Northern Oregon into the heart of Idaho is uneventful, though that may be part of its charm. At a certain point, we left Highway 84 for...
I miss Oregon already. Technically, I'm still here, having lodged in the eastern part of the state for the night. But the best sights (as well as...
Why did no one ever tell me about Oregon?! Well, I suppose they did. "Oregon is beautiful," I have heard here and there. But it was whispers...
The people of Mendocino, Calif., need you to know what they believe. Before setting off for the day, we stopped for lunch at the lovely Mendocino...
Californians are so damn lucky. No other state in America could afford to mismanage itself so badly and still come out as one of the greatest, most...
It’s difficult to find a more American guy than me. No, I have never fired a gun (though I support your right to do so), and I don’t drive a Ford...
The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was planning to temporarily reduce tariffs on beef imports to bring down prices for consumers....
Conservatives warned last year when the government took a 10 percent stake in Intel that the Trump administration — free of any free-market...
The federal student-loan program looks more than ever like a handout, not a genuine extension of credit that is expected to be repaid. Allysia Finley...
Charlie Cooke argued yesterday that there is no rational reason to oppose the construction of data centers, which make this website and all others...
Kevin Warsh sat in the firing line today for his confirmation hearing for chairman of the Federal Reserve. There were no surprises — Warsh is a...
It kind of seems like Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. The “completely open” state of the strait lasted about a day. From Politico:...
On the Iran war, my journalistic credibility is already on the line at the ripe age of 22. That was my doing, so I will live with the consequences....
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is frustrated. Albany won't let him enact the extortive taxes on high earners that he wants, and he can't...
Charlie Cooke finds the American commentariat's fixation with Hungary and its soon-to-be-former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, frankly bizarre. I...
The Financial Times published a report on how fuel shortages are about to become much more acute because of the war in Iran. Only now are the last...
We heard a lot about eggs in early 2025. The average price per dozen reached an all-time high of $8 last February, up from a historical level of...
I can think of one important way that Iran is better off — and the United States and the rest of the world far worse off — than before the war...
The Cato Institute has a great analysis today, on the anniversary of President Trump's "liberation day" speech, of the effects of...
The excellent Penn Wharton Budget Model has a new report on how federal spending is distributed by age. It shows you where the government's...
Meet the definition of insanity. Bob Ferguson, the Democratic governor of Washington, yesterday signed into law the state's first-ever income...
President Trump is trying to reassure Americans that lower prices at the pump are incoming, even as the Iran War rages on and the Strait of Hormuz...
Until Jeff posted about it, I had no idea that the Oscars were tonight. Now that I know, I couldn’t care less. Why would anyone watch the Academy...
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