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I agree with Jim on this. There’s an additional problem with raising the inflation target from 2 percent a year to 3 (or even 4, as some economists...
MBD notes some of the practical reasons for doubting immigration as a solution to the problems caused by declining birth rates. But there’s another...
In my column today, I mention that the Democratic Socialists of America have taken the official position that the Senate should be abolished. I should...
In Trump v. Slaughter, handed down at the end of June, the Supreme Court ruled that because the Federal Trade Commission exercises executive powers,...
Their candidates are downplaying the group’s extreme beliefs. Darializa Avila Chevalier, one of the victorious New Yorkers, has deleted social...
A friend thinks our Independence Day edition of The Editors podcast praised John Adams insufficiently: I can’t believe the injustice y’all...
Max Richtman, the head of the “National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare” — which are in no danger of extinction — writes to...
Agree or disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship today, it leaves the government with many ways to address the...
A core purpose of the Constitution was to protect national commerce from state governments. During the last century, however, the Supreme Court has...
Marcus Nunes on what the late central banker got right and his successor(s) didn't: Tell [Greenspan] he ran a flexible nominal-GDP level target...
A year ago, President Trump was bulldozing his opposition. Now he’s facing setback after setback. My latest column asks what happened: [T]his...
Writing against British bans on cigarettes and social media for young people — although the former will automatically expand to include every Briton...
In the New York Times, the Republican-Democratic duo talk up their plan to eliminate Social Security’s shortfall entirely through tax increases. A...
The supposedly simple and easy solution to the program’s shortfall that progressives are selling would be a record-setting tax increase and further...
In a recent column, I noted that for all the upheaval of the 21st century, 43 states voted the for the same party’s presidential candidate in 2024...
The best and most clarifying thing I’ve read about Magnifica Humanitas comes from Ed Feser, who isn’t trying to explain away anything Pope Leo...
From my Washington Post column on the latest: Progressives, who went all in on “believe women” just a few years ago, have in many cases decided...
Today’s Washington Post column looks at one of the motivations for the Constitution, and why it’s still relevant. Under the Articles of...
Jonathan Chait on the antitrust obsessives remaking the Democratic party. Brian Albrecht on the failure of those obsessives’ theories. Yuval Levin...
I read the DNC report and wrote about it. High inflation harmed the Democratic Party more than any other issue in 2024. In a just-released...
From my column today: Pope Leo XIV and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were diplomatic after their recent meeting. But the conflict between the...
And this isn’t a complicated story: It’s because the money supply in Argentina keeps growing too fast. Scott Sumner: Milton Friedman famously said...
The Brownstein article I mentioned earlier notes that in Democratic primaries, the health-care debate pits advocates of single payer against...
Ronald Brownstein agrees with me both that single payer is coming back as a cause for Democrats and that it is politically perilous for them. I’d...
Some people are reading this line from Pope Leo XIV as a shot at President Trump: “Woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for...
The Iran war is very different from the Iraq war. I mark some of the differences in my Washington Post column today. President George W. Bush was...
The administration has, until now, been consistently (and I think unwisely) pushing for steep cuts in the interest rates that the Federal Reserve most...
Debate over Social Security, scant though it is, usually and understandably focuses on its insolvency. I recently tried to call attention to some of...
Some Democrats have concluded from recent election results that they ought to nominate more heterosexual, Christian white men — and especially that...
Eugene Kontorovich asks a good question: Shouldn’t the ICC be taking up Iran’s attacks on civilians? Some might say the ICC isn’t involved...
From last night’s speech: The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need...
Americans don’t need convincing that the Iranian regime is a menace. They need convincing that what President Trump is doing makes sense. Last...
One of the most common arguments against the idea that the Constitution mandates birthright citizenship, even for the children of illegal immigrants,...
When Dobbs came down, we were told that maternal mortality would increase and ob-gyns would run away from red states. Pro-abortion activists are still...
A Chris Caldwell article is always a stimulating read, and that includes the new one that MBD has already flagged declaring the Trump movement over....
Several candidates from the left wing of the Democratic Party are running on the idea. In the Washington Post, I write that its deficiencies become...
I spoke on a panel hosted by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America yesterday, and Frank Cannon, the organization’s chief political strategist, asked a...
The comment of the Democrats’ Texas Senate nominee that has drawn the most flak is probably that “God is nonbinary.” He made the comment in a...
Jim Geraghty subjects the chief prosecutor for Norfolk to well-deserved criticism for his rant yesterday about how “we live in a country where...