Too many politicians are thespians. When there’s a conflict -- as there often is -- between appearing to solve problems and actually helping to solve those problems, politicians can almost always be counted on to put appearance over substance. Unfortunately, politicians succumb to this bias ...

The Democratic Party, long known as the party for working people, is now for freeloaders. Democrats want taxpayers to support people who refuse to get off the couch and get a job. That’s the major reason Democrats and Republicans in Washington were locked in a stalemate for weeks over ...

Republican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public’s attention from the real crisis of our era —the siphoning off of income, wealth, and power by a small group at the top. Consider the fake fears they’ve been whippingup: 1. “Woke.” Florida’s ...

It was either the best deal that could have been reached given the political makeup of the House, Senate and White House, or it was a bad deal that might have been much better had Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans held out for more.Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, ...

The French government just announced the implementation of a ban on flights between cities that are accessible by train within two and a half hours. Private jets won’t be impacted, of course. Some French have given the Gallic shrug to the new measure, taken in the name of fighting climate ...

Whenever we have a national conversation about government debt, Democrats invariably respond that spending is not the reason the debt is now nearly equal to our national GDP. The real cause of our indebtedness, they inform us, is that taxes aren’t high enough and the rich don’t pay their ...