Politics

When we see real bipartisan action in Congress, it usually is for the worst.

Americans spend billions of dollars on treating heart disease. Prevention is cheaper, but thanks to perverse government incentives, preventing heart disease takes a backseat to medical spending.

Ryan and Zack talk about the freak-out over the Chinese balloon.

Three years after the covid virus hit the world, we are just starting to take a hard look at the damage caused by the covid restrictions. The "experts" not only were wrong; they were scandalously wrong.

The president's SOTU speech has become an annual presentation of a new set of White House lies. But official Washington believes it is worse to publicly boo false statements than to make them.

How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off.

As life expectancy has risen, so have runaway costs. Raising the age won't make Social Security just, prudent, or wise. But cutting federal spending is always the right thing to do. 

All people of goodwill have an obligation to fight the escalation of politics in American life. 

How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off.

It's only a good time to be a worker in America if one confuses falling real wages and falling full-time employment with robust employment conditions.