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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As students begin to head back to school, American higher education is in its most fraught position in recent memory. Most prominent among the challenges is President Trump’s pressure campaign ...

Iraq is at an inflection point; whether or not its new generation of politicians will put the state above their immediate ambitions, however, remains to be seen.

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 ...

I’ve been teaching college students for nearly two decades, and I’ve watched young men steadily lose ground – academically, socially, and emotionally. They enroll in college at far lower ...

A football field, including the end zones, measures over 57,000 square feet. President Trump’s proposed state ballroom would be 90,000 square feet. Is there any conceivable justification for ...

If fact checkers want to keep their title, they should return to the craft: testing fact claims against verifiable evidence. If they’d rather referee opinion disputes, they should drop the ...

Senior Fellow James Pethokoukis discusses President Trump’s latest meeting with Zelenskyy on CNBC’s ‘PowerLunch.’ ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has cut school spending over the past three years, and students’ test scores have risen dramatically. One big reason is that he abandoned the progressive ...