Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few. But we live in a time when too ...

Four Southern states are boosting student achievement and offering lessons the nation can’t ignore.

AI’s story will be about productivity. Generative AI is projected to raise labor productivity in advanced economies by roughly 15 percent once integrated into daily work, improving incomes and living ...

Recent cuts at the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health were less like targeted and strategic restructuring and more like a broad stroke to shrink the federal enterprise ...

Some are treating Mamdani’s rise as a chance to prove the far-left’s ideas don’t work. That posture is wrong. Wishing for the failure of a great city is not the mark of a serious governing movement—it ...

Debating whether SpaceX and similar firms should face higher tax bills is hardly unreasonable. Yet that misses the bigger picture. An important way taxpayers should assess the return on such public ...

America’s highly compromised public finances require that it do everything to promote economic growth to help manage the debt burden. History is likely to harshly judge the Trump 2.0 administration’s ...

Real disruption of the prison communications market is underway. By leveraging modern technology and rejecting the perverse incentives that have long plagued this industry, new entrants are ...

Later this week here at THB I’ll be publishing two important pieces — one a guest post from a climate scientist on how his ...

AOL, as a leading ISP innovating and challenging incumbent providers—and others like it—has played an important role in internet evolution. While dial-up may become a memory, its legacy will live on ...

Yes, we can. But why don’t journalists do it? The reason this Substack exists is to inform the public and to promote good policy. It’s also to vent my frustrations with bad journalism, particularly ...