On Capitol Hill, where memories are short, concern about open-ended military conflicts — or as one might call them, war…

For decades, international development has been synonymous with massive aid programs, billion-dollar projects, and slow-moving bureaucracies. Governments and global institutions…

Fears about tariffs causing a recession are high right now. Betting markets pretty clearly favor the claim of a forthcoming…

As noted in my previous column, foreign holdings of US dollars are classified as foreign holdings of US assets and,…

An overwhelming majority of economists agree: protectionist tariffs harm the very nations that impose them. The notion that taxing Americans…

In 1881, a president was assassinated over the future of the civil service. James Garfield, who believed in civil service…

The high degree of focus on tariffs under the new Trump administration has led to a flurry of new analyses…

In 1979, Governor Ronald Reagan was getting ready for his third presidential campaign, having mounted a late challenge to Nixon…

The Peter Principle, first published in 1968 by Laurence J. Peter, is the premise that, in a hierarchy, people rise…

Over the last two days of the past week, US equity markets crashed as a result of the rollout of…