Oil companies have benefited from the Iran War, but conspiracy theories revolving around President Trump will only produce bad policy.

The best way to gauge the success of American political movements is not by the depth to which they shape their native party, but the breadth to which they extend into the opposing side. By that ...

Some of the most important things in history are things that didn’t happen–even though just about everyone thought they would. Recent example: Scads of liberals gleefully predicted that the financial ...

As it becomes increasingly clear that President Donald Trump’s era of political dominance is coming to an end, there has been ...

In 2024, the Biden administration killed a proposed merger between Spirit Airlines and JetBlue. If the two companies were to join forces, declared then-attorney general Merrick Garland, it would ...

Big government can be thought of as a toll collector. Through regulation, taxes, or outright government ownership, politicians limit the ability of individuals and businesses to do the stuff they want ...

Does Artificial Intelligence Dream of Electric Sheep? Star Wars, Episode I? Mark writes, "The American people are not feeling (at the moment, that is) the effects — the very real pain — of Big ...

Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Roy Blunt (Missouri), and Rick Scott (Florida) in D.C. in May 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Regarding George F. Will’s March 19 column, “The ...

This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 11 episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here ...

President Donald Trump’s 2026 “skinny budget” is out, and at first glance it gives small-government advocates reason to cheer. It proposes deep cuts to domestic agencies, calls for eliminating ...

His rampant interventionism provides a gift to the next progressive administration. President Trump calls his stream-of-consciousness rhetorical style “the weave.” Conservatives should pay more ...

This Pew Research Center analysis examines Americans’ views of problems facing the country. Pew Research Center conducts research to help the public, media and decision-makers understand important ...