Once granted, benefits always multiply and are nearly impossible to repeal, John Cogan says. Only three presidents have been able to rein them in.
Betsy DeVos is Trump’s stylistic opposite, but she stirs more antagonism than any other cabinet member.
Richard Epstein says that curbs on ‘offensive’ speech are unworkable and would turn the public square into the grievance Olympics.
The immunologist behind the revolutionary new treatment set to win approval from the FDA.
The Becket Fund’s head on why religious liberty extends beyond church—and why the ‘Slants’ case helps believers.
Terrorism is way down in Israel’s capital, thanks in part to better relations between police and the Palestinian community.
Would you eradicate malaria-carrying insects? Change your baby’s DNA? Scientists soon may have the power to do both.
Historian Allen Guelzo says the nation is more bitterly split than ever—with the exception of the Civil War era.
Angela Lee Duckworth, the psychologist who champions ‘passion and perseverance,’ explains the power of ‘noncognitive skills.’
Robert Duvall talks about his favorite roles, his worst review and (up to a point) politics.
Government by unelected experts isn’t all that different from the ‘royal prerogative’ of 17th-century England, argues constitutional scholar Philip Hamburger.
The Youth and Police Initiative has helped reduce big-city crime. Its founder sees potential against terrorism.
Transnational liberalism breeds resentments and anxieties that are only beginning to surface across the developed world.
The FCC’s new chairman on his plan to reopen the internet to competition—and the agitators picketing his family home.
‘Mindshift’ author Barbara Oakley on the science and practice of learning—and finding love at the South Pole.
United Technologies head Gregory Hayes on how Trump kept the Carrier plant open—and the high-paid factory jobs he’s having trouble filling.
Manhattan Institute president Larry Mone says the former mayor was no policy wonk either, at least at the start.
The West’s obsession with ‘terror’ has been a mistake, she argues., the ideology behind it, is a broader threat.
An unorthodox professor explains the ‘new religion’ that drives the intolerance and violence at places like Middlebury and Berkeley.
Nomad Health founder Alexi Nazem is giving his medical colleagues a way into the gig economy.
Thomas Sowell discusses his own rise from poverty and the country’s ‘degeneration’ into ‘grievance culture.’
Hany Farid ‘changed the world’ by combating child porn. Now his software could suppress terrorists online.
The creator of ‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’ says euthanasia denies the value of people who have illnesses or disabilities.
The new administrator plans to follow his statutory mandate—clean air and water—and to respect states’ rights.
The man who advised the president on picking Judge Gorsuch explains what his elevation means for the law and America.