A Bad Rap for Judy Shelton on Deposit Insurance

The Fed nominee doesn’t seem to have won over several on-the-fence senators during yesterday’s hearing. One criticism that has been lodged against...

Foreign Health Systems Don’t Make the Case for SandersCare

Senator Bernie Sanders often claims that other countries’ experience with health care shows that his Medicare for All plan makes sense. He’s at it...

The Wrong Kind of ‘Intellectual Diversity’ at the Fed

Judy Shelton, a nominee of President Trump’s for the Federal Reserve Board, has come under fire for two main reasons. First, she has been a...

Klobuchar, Buttigieg, and Pro-Lifers

While both of these Democratic candidates are running as relative moderates in their party, the qualifier is worth remembering — and especially on...

Can Sanders Be Stopped?

Why last night was even better than it looked for Bernie.

Is It Already Too Late to Stop Bernie Sanders?

Feeling the Bern. At a moment when Americans are feeling more prosperous than they have in years, much of the Democratic party is intent on electing...

Disinformation about Disinformation

Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan to combat “disinformation” online. Critics said she was threatening free speech; defenders replied that...

Misremembering John Quincy Adams

On the homepage, Daniel Gullotta argues that today’s “Jacksonianism” doesn’t bear much resemblance to how Andrew Jackson actually thought. At...

An Attack on Due Process

If you can discern the argument in this Atlantic essay, you’ve done better than I can. Is it that the presumption of innocence sometimes causes pain...

Pence on the Deficit

CNBC has a story headlined, “Vice President Pence defends deficit expansion under Trump as necessary for economic growth.” The full interview is...

Why the Democrats Have No Public List of Judges

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump released two lists of his potential Supreme Court nominees. (Brett Kavanaugh, interestingly, wasn’t on either...

MBD on Romney

Michael Brendan Dougherty’s essay on Mitt Romney today holds him to a rigorous standard of intellectual coherence and moral clarity rarely applied...

How Voluntary Would the Public Option Be?

Michael Cannon concludes, “In the end, Buttigieg’s plan is not ‘Medicare for All Who Want It.’ It is instead a single‐​payer, ‘Medicare...

A Tale of Two Economies

President Trump talked about one in the State of the Union address. Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, talked about a very...

Forget the Iowa Fiasco. Trump Is the Democrats’ Real Problem.

Mr. Popularity Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Democrats keep getting bad news. On Monday night,...

Trump’s Rising Reelection Chances

are the subject of my latest column. Democrats keep getting bad news. On Monday night, the Iowa Democratic Party bollixed its caucuses in a way that...

Social Security Is Safe From Trump (And Whoever Succeeds Him)

Neither party has the political will to cut benefits for retirees. 

Great News, and Terrible News

As Wesley Smith noted here the other day, life expectancy resumed its upward march in 2018 as opioid-overdose deaths declined. This seems to be a...

A ‘New Reality in Mideast’

John Podhoretz has a persuasive short analysis of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan.

Hospitals: The Antitrust Mirage

Hospital costs are a large and expanding part of health-care costs. Elizabeth Warren’s plan won’t solve the problem, Chris Pope explains.

A Letter on Trade Policy

An email in response to my NRO article, “Navarro’s Faith-Based Case for Tariffs.” Your recent observations on China and trade compel me to make...

Buttigieg on Late-Term Abortion

A recent exchange between the Democratic presidential candidate and Kristen Day of Democrats for Life has gotten some attention. Day asked whether...

The Censure Non-Option

A few commentators have argued that congressmen concerned about President Trump’s conduct toward Ukraine should have pursued a censure resolution...

Bernie Sanders

What a Sanders Victory Would Mean

My new Bloomberg Opinion column concerns what will happen if the socialist senator’s surge lasts.

Bernie Can Win. So Can His Revolution.

The National-Security Angle on Ukraine

The impeachment managers have been harping on the damage that President Trump’s hold-up of aid to Ukraine allegedly did to our foreign policy. The...

The Costs of Impeachment to the Country Aren’t High

Impeaching the president when conviction is politically impossible, Rich Lowry writes, “diverts the time and energy of the nation’s political...

Eric Felten on the Uses of Language

At RealClearInvestigations, Eric Felten offers a critique of the House Judiciary Committee’s report on impeachment. Here, to my mind, is his best...

Impeachment Hypocrisy All Around

My new Bloomberg Opinion column: Politicians are never less sincere than when they argue about process. They typically speak as though high principle...

Everybody Is Guilty in the Senate’s Impeachment Farce

Under cover.  Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images   Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images   Politicians are never less sincere than when...

Confusion about Choice

Republicans and Democrats alike say they want to give parents more “choices” about child care, writes Claire Cain Miller in the New York Times....

Byron York’s Defense of Trump

The Washington Examiner columnist contends that one of the main contentions of the House Democrats’ case against Trump is “flat-out wrong.”...

The GAO’s Report

The Government Accountability Office issued a short report yesterday concluding that the administration had broken the law in freezing aid to Ukraine...

Slate vs. Judge Pryor

Federal appeals-court judge William Pryor wrote a dissent denying that a juror’s calling on God for help demonstrated, beyond a reasonable doubt,...

Defenders of Trump’s War Powers Take It Too Far

Killing Soleimani was justified, but Congress needs to restore the constitutional limits on presidential authority.

About Warren’s Aunt Bee

In last night’s debate, Senator Warren again mentioned how her “Aunt Bee” had helped her when she was at wit’s end holding a job and taking...

Putting the Arguments against Roe Together

The main argument for overturning Roe v. Wade and its successors is that no right to abortion can plausibly be derived from the text, original...

The Democrats Are Out of Touch on the Economy

Buttigeg, tonight, said that the Dow Jones was up but people still felt down. Biden said that everyone but the rich is getting clobbered. And...

Can a Woman Win the Presidency? It’s a Good Question

Six Questions on Warren vs. Sanders

Starting with: Who’s telling the truth? My new Bloomberg Opinion column.

Medical Progress and Its Enemies

An editorial in the New York Times gives this glib advice: Slow down on drug and device approvals. The F.D.A. has made several compromises in recent...

Paid Leave and One-Earner Families

John Hirschauer makes two solid points: No paid leave policy can create more time in the day, and there are real upsides to having one parent take...

The Non-Delegation Conundrum

As Robert VerBruggen noted on NRO the other day, a lot of conservative and libertarian legal thinkers are excited about the possibility that the...

The Trump Administration and Roe

My Bloomberg Opinion column the other day discussed a brief to the Supreme Court from members of Congress in a case concerning abortion regulations in...

No Exemption from Public Choice

This Wall Street Journal op-ed, headlined, “I Support Trump’s Tariffs But Need an Exemption,” has come in for some Twitter ridicule. But...

On Hoping for a Recession

Catherine Rampell writes in the Washington Post: Over the past few months, anti-Trumpers have often asked me (hopefully, wistfully) about the...

How Solid a Precedent Is Roe, Anyway?

In a brief to the Supreme Court, more than 200 members of Congress suggest that it take up that question. They’ve got a strong case, one I go into...

How Not to Argue with Bill Barr

I’m open to criticisms of Attorney General Bill Barr, and have highlighted one or two in this space. But Katherine Stewart and Caroline Fredrickson...

Buttigieg’s Mandate Is Unneeded

Kevin Williamson makes the case that a lot of people made for the individual mandate or something like it: If you’re going to forbid insurers from...