Higher tariffs would adversely affect agricultural imports, which would harm US consumers, but the trade actions could also provoke counter-retaliatory actions by affected exporters. Indeed, Canada, ...

The war with Israel has prompted generational turnover in Iranian military leadership. Israel killed dozens of senior Iranian military officers during the recent 12-day conflict, eliminating many of ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).

While the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation safeguards an individual’s right to be digitally “forgotten”, what assurances exist regarding an individual’s—or a society’s—“right to be ...

A popular myth peddled by populists on both the left and right is that America has been in steady decline since the 1970s. A more honest accounting of the facts reveals a different story—one of ...

The new endowment tax will subject the country's wealthiest institutions to hundreds of millions of dollars in tax liability.

Some conservative groups are asking the Trump administration to index capital gains for inflation by executive order. Tax reform should improve the tax treatment of saving and investment, but indexing ...

President Donald Trump has always had his Nixonian characteristics, from a power-hungry (sometimes illegal) mode of operations at home to a desire to rebalance the burdens and benefits of US ...

In recent years, the Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) and Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) programs have experienced substantial growth in participation and costs. PRF subsidies disproportionately ...

Since President Donald Trump declared his “liberation Day” on April 2, touching off a bout of severe financial market turmoil, the financial media has resounded with reports that the end of the U.S.

shouldn’t be dismissive of Mr. Mamdani’s unhealthy obsession with Israel. It is an indication of how radical Islam is gaining acceptance on the left. Over the past few weeks, Mr. Mamdani—a ...