If an investment yields stagnant or negative returns despite increased funding, the rational thing to do is back off. This logic rarely applies in government, but we’re in a unique moment. The U.S. Department of Education — which has long exemplified the sunk-cost fallacy with past ...

Is Donald Trump seriously going to give Canadians their “Che-Eh! Guevara” moment and try to seize Canada? Just 10 percent of Canadians actually want to become an American state, according to an Angus Reid institute survey from January. That’s roughly four million of them, and probably ...

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants — 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump’s removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported. Trump says migrant ...

Republicans in Congress are ceding their constitutional power to the president, so says the “politerati.” Yes, but there’s the rub: 10 Senate Democrats joined Republicans, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He changed his mind the day before. The Senate 10 sacrificed the ...

For decades, the United States has led the world in pharmaceutical innovation — developing drugs that combat cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes and other killer diseases. One recent study found that “in health-sciences output in the Nature Index, the United States’ Share is almost ...

Small businesses have been the backbone of the United States since its founding. The Hotel Saxonburg in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, which has also been known as the Vogeley House, the Belvedere House, the Laube House and the Central Hotel, opened in 1835 and has lasted most of our nation’s ...