Last week, a colleague of mine sent me a copy of an email that they had received from ClimateBrief, a UK-based advocacy journalism group. The email asked for examples of how their published research ...

The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...

From an economic perspective, unintended consequences turn tidy government plans into costly messes. Such interventions often create economic distortions that government planners couldn't foresee ...

The reactions to the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) report released last week have been just as interesting as the report itself. The degree of vitriol and freak-out by activist climate scientists ...

On February 7, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado offered the following advice on X: “Dear Speaker Johnson, Simply pass every executive order President Trump has signed, and you will go down as the ...

After five decades of failure, a rubber-stamp renewal of UNIFIL is no longer acceptable. The U.N. cannot or will not enforce peace and disarmament in southern Lebanon.

Regulating and supervising the payment stablecoin industry will impose a bevy of costs on federal bank regulatory agencies, which, under the terms of the GENIUS Act, will ultimately be borne by ...

The topic of this episode is, “Does Congress’s power to declare war mean anything?” In June of 2025, President Donald J. Trump directed US aircraft to drop 30,000 pound bombs on nuclear ...

Yesterday, Penny Schwinn, the former Tennessee schools chief, withdrew her nomination to be Linda McMahon’s number two at the U.S. Department of Education. The news was a shock, given that ...

A second marriage is the “triumph of hope over experience,” quipped 18th-century man of letters Samuel Johnson. We can today reverse the saying: Trump’s second term is the triumph of ...

Senior Fellow Scott Gottlieb discusses President Trump’s push to lower drug prices on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box.’ ...