No matter the outcome of next week’s election, we can be certain that the new president and Congress will confront urgent policy and legislative challenges. One priority issue for the new Congress ...

Israel launched several waves of strikes targeting around 20 locations in Iran last night using about 100 manned and unmanned aircraft. Israeli targets included highly sensitive air defense assets ...

On Sept. 15, 2020, the Emirati and Bahraini foreign ministers joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump at the White House to sign the Abraham Accords.

Miguel Cardona is the worst secretary in the 45-year history of the U.S. Department of Education, and it’s not particularly close. Reporting this brings me no glee. When Cardona took office in ...

Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how difficult it is for R&D leaders to “pick winners,” despite the enormous incentives to do so. I explained how we tend to underestimate the role of chance, and ...

26 years ago, Virginia Postrel published The Future and Its Enemies, which I still consider one of the most insightful books of our time. The book’s subtitle, The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, ...

The political analyst Samuel Lubell introduced the concept of the sun and moon parties in 1951. The sun party is the majority party, and “it is within the majority party that the issues of any ...

Donald Trump’s popularity is a paradox. It seems unlikely that most Americans—if they actually listen to what he says—would vote for him. Yet, in a few weeks, he could be elected President of the ...

On the surface, Democrats had a strong election night in 2023: They clawed back some seats in New Jersey, flipped control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, and held the Kentucky governor’s mansion.

Let’s assume an economic baseline where from 2025 to 2040, the American economy sees annual real GDP growth of maybe 2.0 percent. Such a forecast, even a bit lower, is in keeping with what many Wall ...