The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will not end the operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Sinwar’s death is unlikely to trigger a rethink within Hamas about its basic strategy, which is ...

The American party system is in an unusual extended deadlock, with two minority parties, neither capable of sustaining a durable winning coalition. Both parties have plausible avenues to build a ...

You might be better off despite the trade-offs, but choices have consequences or costs. Americans would be better served if our politicians, policymakers, and policy commentators honestly highlighted ...

The future of the clean energy transition is cloudy. It’s well-known that there are disagreements—wide disagreements—between Republicans and Democrats about our energy future. But less well ...

Several years ago, political science professor Greg Weiner surveyed our political landscape and asked, “What space is left for prudence?” It’s a good question: at a time marked by major ...

Last week a judge unsealed a 165-page legal brief with damaging new revelations about President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The revelations have been ...

Although the Trump administration initiated the antitrust case against Google, it is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s antitrust team—formulated under the leadership of Jonathan Kanter, Lina Khan ...

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of Medicare drug pricing data and policy changes raises further questions about the promised fiscal benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA ...

Going to a liberal arts college is usually an expensive way to get a bachelor’s degree. With students more mindful of high tuition, many liberal arts colleges are seeing enrollment drop—and ...

This paper empirically estimates sustainable sovereign debt limits for 27 OECD countries, updating the model in Ghosh et al. (2013). We assess fiscal reaction functions, confirming the fiscal ...

Gordon Tullock wrote that government economists found capable of “firefighting” are assigned to do more of it, “with the result that the higher ranks of government economists aren’t able ...

What if—and hear me out—we are not actually the change we seek? But instead, as Musa al-Gharbi writes, “we are some of the main beneficiaries of the inequalities we condemn.” Who is we?