The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk’s side. More efficient government has been promised often. It’s never happened. Instead, government just grew. Sen. Rand ...

The fate of President Donald Trump’s ambitious economic policy plans will be determined by the people he appoints to critical positions. With a debt of over $36 trillion (heading toward $59 trillion in 2035 by some estimates), inflation not resolved, an entitlement crisis looming and the need ...

Teddy Roosevelt would presumably be pleased. President Trump spoke loudly and swung a big stick in Panama’s direction, and it produced instantaneous results when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the small Central American nation. President Jose Raul Mulino Quintero said that Panama ...

Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to – likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisers – even when he doesn’t want to hear what it’s saying. During his first term, Trump routinely took credit for ...

If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don’t think I will get pushback. President Donald Trump’s move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible ...

Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with tariffs. Everyone else is baffled: Why did the president announce heavy taxes on imports from Canada as well as Mexico and China? America has an obvious interest in economic decoupling from China, a great-power rival. And by first imposing ...