A recent NBC News story suggests why mainstream economic logic still holds in the age of AI “slop.” Technological progress tends to automate tasks, not eliminate work. The printing press, the ...

The familiar struggle between living and dying powers is winding down, and another story, its outlines still obscure, is beginning to unfold.

Too many school boards act as if their job is to “support” the superintendent and staff—offering encouragement and deference, not impartial oversight.

Reactions to Beijing’s announcement and Trump’s tariff barking focused on the short-term. His reversal was also due to short-term concerns, in particular stocks. But the very serious problem is in the ...

The FTC’s use of antitrust law—real or threatened—to change platforms’ content-moderation decisions confronts important First Amendment principles about editorial discretion, compelled speech, ...

Good harvests, disruptions to international trade, and demand shifts have reduced recent and forecast prices for several important farm commodities, but other commodities continue to fare reasonably ...

In today’s debate over Israel, hatred wears the mask of justice. Scroll, march, or listen on campus—everywhere, the same word appears in red: genocide. This idea is not only false; it is obscene. To ...

"Stablecoins—a new digital currency—present problems for Congress’s constitutional duty to regulate the coinage of money." ...

Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations is still grounded in strong profits and ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Europe, geographically speaking, is a small peninsula protruding from a much larger landmass, Eurasia. Today, the continent feels small indeed. Europe is being squeezed by a probing, predatory Russia.

Instead, the US has turned dovish. With import tariffs and market access capped by Chinese resistance, Trump switched to trying to cut the trade deficit by giving the People’s Republic of China (PRC) ...